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.