From the 8th to the 5th
This was a message from the Office of Academic Affairs. This is the office in charge of making sure our drop deadlines are sufficient, basically the Academic Lobbying Arm of our wonderful ASUC. Remember, our esteemed lobbyists promised to retain an eighth week drop deadline and now, it's at the fifth week. Also, the early drop deadline was at the third week and now it's at the second. Most professors don't give exams until after the fifth week. Remind you, we paid this lobbying arm tens of thousands of dollars.
ASUC MESSAGE
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Cal Undergraduate Students,
This is the first semester with the new 2nd and 5th week Drop Deadline policy. There are some changes that students should be aware of to prevent problems with signing up and dropping classes. The break down of the deadlines is as follows:
SECOND WEEK:
The end of the second week of instruction (midnight Friday, September 9th) is the deadline to drop Early Drop Deadline (EDD) courses. The list of these courses can be found at:
http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Scheduling/edd.html
FIFTH WEEK:
The end of the fifth week of instruction (midnight on Friday, September 30th) is now the deadline to:
1) Drop all courses EXCEPT EDD courses (above)
2) Add all courses
3) Change the grading option from pass/not pass to a letter grade
4) Change the unit value on variable-unit courses
TENTH WEEK:
Students who wish to change their grading option from a letter grade to pass/not pass (NOT the other way around) now have until the end of the tenth week, Friday November 4th.
To avoid problems this semester:
1) Put yourself the waitlist if you want to join a class that is full, because departmental staff
can only add you to a class this way
2) If you do not want to take a class, remove yourself from the waitlist as soon as possible to
avoid being accidentally locked in because the second or fifth week deadline passed
3) Check Tele-BEARS or Bear Facts to see your waitlist status
The College of Letters and Science will be expanding advising hours all the way through the fifth week to help students adjust to these changes. Please contact your specific college and departmental advisors for the most up-to-date and specific information. Have a great academic year, and visit www.asuc.org if you have any questions or concerns regarding academic policies for the year.
-The ASUC Office of Academic Affairs
posted by DTI @ 5:28 PM
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Bookmarked your site. Hopefully, something comes out of this.
We might also want to remember that the drop deadline shift happened under the watchful gaze of non-student Rocky Gade.
Rocky's a great kid...but he wasn't a legitimate ASUC elected official.
I don't think this is an example of the failure of the ASUC, but the failure of an elected official. There is a difference.
Would you want to abolish the office of the CA Governor because Schwarzenegger makes a mistake?
I think there are plenty of examples of how the ASUC is unnecessary or co-optive, but this is an individual failure, not an organizational one.
It's the responsibility of the student body to elect competent and qualified leaders, in the current system. Maybe this is the problem.
I completely agree if they were capable of it. I don't propose dropping the whole ASUC because of the actions of Rocky Gade. Every year we get incompetent leaders who were elected because they weren't as bad as the alternatives. We either need no system or a system that's started from scratch and built by people who really care about the students.
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