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Volume CXXXII, Number 17 |
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Poll: have you been turned down?
To the Bowdoin Community,
Last week we wrote to you about several issues concerning class accessibility. Among those issues were possible problems involving the effectiveness of the add/drop period . The Office of Student Records has received an increasing number of complaints from students who have been unable to obtain a professor's signature to add a class. Professors have at times made themselves unavailable to students seeking signatures. At other times they have denied students a signature on the grounds that the student has already missed too many lectures or that the class is full, when in fact the enrollment limit has not yet been reached.
As promised, we bring you a poll to define the scope of this problem. All responses will be kept strictly confidential, and should be emailed to Christine Cote, the Director of Institutional Research, at ccote@bowdoin.edu. We urge you to take this poll seriously as the results will be highly influential in determining what action will be taken to address this problem.
Have you ever experienced any difficulty at all obtaining a professor's signature to add a class, despite having met the following three conditions: 1) you had the necessary qualifications for the course, 2) the course enrollment limit had not yet been reached, and 3) you were willing to make up any missed work? If so, feel free to elaborate on your experience.
Sincerely,
Gajan Sivakumaran '03
Elise Meoli '03
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