The pilot program is designed to make it less cumbersome for students in an undergraduate business course to drop the course during the first six weeks of the semester. Currently, students who remain in a course beyond the second week are required to obtain the instructor's signature in order to drop the course anytime through the end of the sixth week of classes. The simplified process waives the requirement for the instructor's signature.
Students simply fill out a designated form and take it to the registrar's office for processing.
After the sixth week, students will need to obtain the instructor's and dean's signatures in order to drop any course. The purpose of this new procedure is to simplify the process and to improve consistency. Often students don't know where to pick up a special action form. Once they find the form, they have to find their professor and then return the signed form to the registrar's office, which is not where they picked up the form originally. Sometimes, due to student and faculty schedules, this process cannot be done all in one business day.