Tuesday, November 17, 2009
As his scheduled enrollment appointment approached, Nicholas Lundgren kept an eye on the Enroll & Pay Web site.
“I was watching throughout the preceding weeks as it filled up with seniors that needed the course to graduate,” Lundgren, Fairway junior, said.
And then, just hours before his enrollment appointment began, the class he wanted filled up.
Lundgren’s online enrollment appointment ended Monday at midnight along with all other students’ appointments. For some students, the enrollment process was not only frustrating, but confusing.
“My whole plan hinged on me getting into the class,” Lundgren said, “knowing I couldn’t do anything about it until a moment that was arbitrarily picked for me.”
Joan Hahn, assistant registrar, said enrollment times were decided by number of hours completed. She said a very small portion of the student population was able to enroll first, including honors students and students who use services from the academic access center, which offers classes for students with various disabilities.
Hahn said there had been no major issues with classes filling up for the spring 2010 semester. But it does happen, and that is why wait lists are offered. Hahn said there were two kinds of wait lists. One is available through Enroll & Pay and the other is kept by hand by administrators or professors in each department.
Hahn said students using the wait list featured on Enroll & Pay were usually not aware of different factors that could result in their names being removed from the wait list. She said students would often put themselves on the wait list for a section of the course at a certain time, and then also enroll for an open section of the course at a different time. When this happens, the student is taken off the wait list. Students will also be taken off the wait list if there is a time conflict on their schedule.
The class Lundgren needed to enroll in is offered through the film and media studies department.
Kimbo Jackson, senior administrative associate for the department, said the department was keeping a wait list by hand. She said that because the class had filled up, the department was considering offering the course during the summer.
Lundgren met with the professor and was told he was on the wait list and should be able to get into the class in the spring. He said he hoped to be able to get into the class then because he planned to study abroad after that and would be unable to take it.
Hahn said Enroll & Pay would allow students to enroll in classes again beginning Jan. 13 and ending the 20th day of classes. She said students were able to enroll online until the fifth day of classes, but after that instructor permission is required and students must enroll in person.
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— Edited by Megan Morriss
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