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WITHDRAWAL FROM A CLASS
AND FROM THE UNIVERSITY
If a student drops a
class or withdraws from the University by the time designated in the Catalogue
for each semester as "Last day for dropping courses or withdrawing without
academic penalty," the student’s name is removed from the official class
roll sent to each instructor, and the instructor should delete the student’s
name and any grades already assigned from his/her records. The assigned faculty
advisor may approve a student’s change of schedule to drop a course during the
designated period, but, for an undergraduate student, if the change produces a
class load of less than 12 credit hours, the student’s dean must also approve.
The Director of the Counseling and Student Success Center and the student’s
dean must approve the withdrawal of any undergraduate student.
A student may not drop a class after the designated date and
remain enrolled for other classes except in unusual circumstances and with
special permission of his/her dean. If a student wishes to withdraw from the
University after the designated date, he/she must first confer with the Director
of the Counseling and Student Success Center and then file with his/her dean a
request for permission to resign, except that a graduate student is required to
consult only with the Dean of Graduate Studies. Such requests are generally
approved only when there are urgent reasons which make it necessary for the
student to lighten his/her load or withdraw from school. No student -- graduate
or undergraduate -- is allowed to drop a course within the last ten class days
of the semester for any reason, and a student may withdraw from school
during the last ten class days only in an extreme medical emergency or similar
situation, as determined by the Director of the Counseling and Student Success
Center (or, in the case of a graduate student, by the Dean of Graduate Studies).
Unless the professor receives an official notice from the
Registrar’s Office that a student has withdrawn, the instructor should keep
the student on the roll, regardless of any informal reports about the student’s
status, and should award the student the appropriate grade at the end of the
semester.
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