A new student enrollment waitlist was brought to the Student Government Association meeting on Sept. 23. The waitlist will be introduced in the spring semester.
Janice Williams, registrar, brought the new enrollment procedure to the SGA’s attention and explained how the waitlist works.
“The waitlist will work as a part of the registration process,” Williams said. “Once a class is full, students will have the opportunity to request a spot on the waitlist. If a seat opens up or the maximum enrollment increases, the waitlist will be ran to see who will be placed in the class based on priority.”
Once a seat opens up, the waitlist is processed to place the first eligible student in the open seat.
While the list is being processed, the class will be locked so no student may register for the class at that time.
The waitlist will be a part of the registration process on OneStart. It will also be section specific but not available for all classes.
“Some programs only let certain people into the classes,” Williams said. “Nursing is a program that only a select number can be in, so there won’t be a waitlist for those
classes.”
SGA senate chair Jonathan Moody, psychology junior, is looking forward to moving ahead with the waitlist.
“The SGA actually has in the past expressed interest in supporting a waitlist,” Moody said. “The students have always shown interest in having one, so I’m glad we’ve finally got one being put into action.”
A notification will be sent to a student’s IUS e-mail only if the student’s waitlist request is accepted.
“I think there should be a notification regardless,” SGA pro Temp Justin Miller, psychology and sociology junior, said. “A student should be able to find out immediately if they got into the class they wanted or not.”
Not all of the details of the waitlist are finalized, and Williams said the Office of the Registrar would entertain student opinions on any unfinished details, which will be decided on by the heads of the departments.
All waitlist requests can be changed, added or dropped like a class. If a student no longer wants to take the classes they are on the waitlist for, the student must drop the request like a registered class.
Students cannot be taken off the waitlist by an external source. The only way to be removed from the waitlist is to drop it using OneStart.
By AMANDA
CHIAMULERA
Staff
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