The proposal to move late registration and the add/drop period to the week before classes begin was altered at a recent Academic and Campus Affairs Council (ACAC) meeting. The new proposal would move late registration to the week before class but keep a two day add/drop period during the first week of class. The new proposal was sent out to the employee associations and the Student Government Association (SGA) after the March 5 ACAC meeting.
After the ACAC meeting, Kathleen Christensen, vice president of Student Support and Success Systems, said that since there was still no consensus and approval of the proposal, the issue would need to be pushed back another year.
To go into effect by fall 2010, the administration would have liked to have consensus and approval of the proposal before the fall 2010 registration calendar was published, said Director of Admissions and Records, Linda Kluck.
The Publications and Creative Services department deadline to include new information in the Fall 2010 Student Handbook and Course Catalog was March 29.
Mike Midgely, vice president, workforce education and business development, made the suggested changes at the ACAC meeting.
Midgley sent out an e-mail to the employee associations with the new wording: "ACC registration will end prior to the first class day. Add/drops for students registered prior to the first class day will be allowed during the first two days of the semester."
Midgley said it was after listening to the SGA's report to the board of trustees and having conversations about the proposed registration changes that he thought of moving back registration but keeping an add/drop period.
The new wording is now being discussed by the appropriate associations and will then come back to the ACAC, but the proposal was not on the agenda for the April 2 ACAC meeting.
The SGA representative on the ACAC, Mike Reid, said the changes to the proposal seemed like a fair compromise.
"This is a good change," said Reid. "[The SGA] agrees with this change because the administration is meeting us half way in the add/drop issue."
Not everybody is likes the new proposal.
"I think neither proposal is good," said Devorah Feldman, president of the Faculty Senate and vocal opponent of the changes to the registration calendar, in an e-mail.
"I support keeping Late Registration and Add/Drop as they are now in the interest of maintaining an Open Door Policy to educational potential in line with the mission of ACC," said Feldman in an e-mail. The faculty is still divided over the issue, and Feldman said they would continue to discuss it at Faculty Senate meetings.
The Faculty Senate, SGA, and other employee associations will be dealing with the issue in the coming months.
Reid said he was willing to give the proposal a try.
"Lets move it back one week and see what happens," said Reid. "If it doesn't work we can always put it back the way it was."
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