Whereas: Faculty Senate has supported a policy to remove the second week of unlimited adds from the university enrollment policy in order to allow classes that focus on group dynamics or desire to move quickly into material have their class rosters set and can begin material and form groups in a timely manner; and,

Whereas: This policy would place no limits on administrative adds, which would simply involve a pink slip giving a student permission to enter a class and then could be processed by any number of university administrators, not only Add/Drop, thus actually proving less work and shorter lines to enter a class beyond the procurement of a pink slip; and,

Whereas: Administrative adds would allow a professor or administrator to properly prepare a student for the workload necessary to add a class as late as the second week and give them the ability to ensure students most in need gain entrance to the class; and,

Whereas: This would have no impact on the unlimited drop policy of two weeks currently maintained by university enrollment policy.

Section 1: The University of Oklahoma Undergraduate Student Congress considers it of utmost importance that all students be given an opportunity to enroll in the classes necessary for them to graduate on time, and, thus, we encourage the University of Oklahoma to make the Add process as convenient and available as possible for all students within the time that professors are allowing for unlimited adds.

Section 2: UOSA Student Congress supports the proposal to drop the second week of unlimited adds, provided that students are accommodated with certain policies:

Section 3: The standard means of administrative adds should be maintained in that any department has the power to enroll someone with a pink slip in order to ensure that this actually makes the enrollment process somewhat easier to a student allowed in a class the second week.

Section 4: Since the statistics show that more seniors add classes in the second week, meanwhile more 1000 and 3000 division classes are added at the same time, it is suggested that many are trying to satisfy general education and major requirements. Thus, we would request that a department mandate to their faculty members that, given space available according to the department set limit, in the second week a senior MUST be allowed into the class if it is necessary for he/she to graduate.

Section 5: Copies of this resolution will be sent to the following:

Author of the bill: Academic Affairs Committee

Submitted on a motion by: Susie Gidseg

Action taken by Congress: Passed by Consent

Verified by Chair of Congress: _________ Date: ____