Wait lists to be canceled Administration will work on a replacement

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The option to sign up for a wait list when enrolling to classes will be cancelled starting next semester until a new system is established.

Currently, once a class is filled, the rest of the students trying to enroll in the class will be put on a wait list.

During the first week of class, if a student does not show up or drops the class, a student on the wait list has a chance to add the class.

Administration thinks this is a problem because once one student is put on a wait list, all other students registering will be wait listed regardless of a student dropping prior to the first class.

“If you have a class with a wait list, and people register for the original class and then people drop off before the class meets, you cannot move from the wait list onto that,” said instructor of automotive service tech. Tom Rosdahl.

For example, if the maximum number of students that can enroll in a class is 30, The 31st student will be put on a wait list, and so will any other student attempting to enroll.

If one of the 30 original students drops the class before the semester starts, there will be an opening. But instead of filling the gap with one of the wait listed students, the wait list will grow.

The new system will automatically keep the class updated as to who is officially in the class, and who will be on the wait list.

But this system won’t be around for a while.

“No, no, no. A couple years,” said chair of physics and planetary sciences John Zayac.

There is no set-in-stone idea of how many years the developing of a new system will take.

While there are no wait lists teachers will have to use class time to decide which students will earn a spot in their classes. This does not sit well with some teachers.

“If I saw that there’s 15 of the 20 [wait list students] there, I could just say to all the walk ins I’ve got enough waiting list people that will fill those seats, ” said English professor Richard Follett.

The wait list system made things easier for him.

“Now, with no waiting lists, every single body in that room has an equal opportunity if there are a few noshows,” said Follett.

“In the meantime, [this] makes crashing courses way easier,” 19-year-old English major Michael Rodriguez said.

There are still some students who prefer having a wait list system even if it is a bit flawed.

“That’s absurd!” 21-year-old nursing major Alessandro Boshann said. “It’s a sacrifice that has to be made in order to ensure the students get the classes that they need.”

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President Burke-Kelly confirmed that the program would not be offered in the fall.

“It has been suggested to me that, if a student needs Co Op Ed for their program, there are faculty members that would be willing to offer it as a directive study,” Burke-Kelly said. “[This] means that faculty wouldn’t be compensated. They would be doing it on a voluntary basis.”

Skidmore believes this is a malicious attack, and that the college is doing itself a disservice. The Co Op Ed program is projected to bring in $290,541.34.

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He estimates that the college will only save $39,000 in faculty revenue not offering the program, which means the college would be losing $251,541.34 by not offering the program.

“Closing the department is not a financial decision, even in these hard economic times.”

The hours from the Co Op Ed program will be shifted to other departments, Burke-Kelly said.

“Any department can say they make this much or that much,” said McCaslin. “But if you shift those hours to another department the college has not lost anything.”

Number of active students in the Cooperative Education website in previous semesters.