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Add / drop extended to Tuesday

The deadline for class changes will be extended from Monday, February 12 to 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13.

The decision was made because the recent heavy snowfall seriously affected the scheduling of classes, says Elizabeth Pyle, Registrar for the University of Massachusetts.

‘We just feel that this is fair to students who had classes scheduled for Monday evening,’ Pyle said.

The storms, which dropped nearly two feet of snow on the Amherst campus, forced University officials to close the campus at 2:30 p.m. on Monday and all day Tuesday.

With the deadline set at Monday, students who had an evening class set for this past Monday would be forced to choose whether to keep or drop a class they have never attended, the Registrar explained.

‘Its those classes scheduled later in the day or evening, or that only meet once a week that are affected,’ said Pyle.
The change in the add-drop date will primarily impact a large number of graduate students. A smaller number of advanced undergraduates are affected.

‘A few very advanced undergrads will be affected,’ Pyle clarified. ‘Its more of a drop decision. Most students know what classes they want to add already.’

The change in the schedule will require some work on the registration system, which is automatically scheduled to shut down on Monday evening.

‘It doesn’t really add too much work,’ Pyle said. ‘We have to change some settings in the system, but nothing large.’

Pyle assured that the campus would be given plenty of notice of the change.

‘We’ll be sending out a email to the campus.’

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