If all sections of English 110 and 120 are full, we will
administratively drop students from our classes if they do not
attend the first day.
1. Take attendance the first day, and compare your attendance
list with your class list from People Soft.
2. If possible, email any student you are planning to drop;
remind him or her that on the class notes for all English 110 and
120 sections it says "Students who miss the first meeting may be
dropped." Tell the student that he or she will be dropped from the
class as of 5 pm that day unless the student contacts you with a
reasonable explanation for his or her absence.
3. Email Kevin Brooks with the name(s) of students who
need to be dropped. Kevin will compile a list of student names to
be dropped Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and pass that list on
to the registrar's office.
If you have students who tell you that they are on the wait list
for your class, please tell them:
• To keep looking for open sections--being able to secure a spot
in a class with an opening is the only way to get into a class, and
it keeps our enrollment evenly distributed.
• DO NOT attend a class until enrolled in a class.
• Make sure students know that if they are registered for a
different section of the same course, they will be skipped over
when PeopleSoft fills an opening in your class.
• Make sure they know that if adding your class causes a time
conflict in their schedule, PeopleSoft will no move them from a
wait list into a class.
As an instructor, you can and should check your wait list via
PeopleSoft. Log In and check your class roster. On the class
roster page, change the drop down menu from "Enrolled" to
"Waiting." That list, however, will be alphabetical rather than
date-sensitive, so you won't be able to tell students where they
are on the waiting list.