{"id":14302,"date":"2017-07-11T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T17:28:25","slug":"camosun-college-institutes-new-20-credit-registration-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/07\/11\/camosun-college-institutes-new-20-credit-registration-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College institutes new 20-credit registration limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of September of this year, Camosun College will be implementing a 20-credit registration limit. This will prevent students from registering in extra classes as a safeguard, a practice that the college says is making other students unable to get into the classes they want.<\/p>\n

Camosun registrar Scott Harris adds that this limit is coming into effect mainly to help ensure students\u2019 academic success.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost colleges and universities will limit the number of courses that any student can be in at any one time,\u201d says Harris, \u201cparticularly from a student success perspective primarily, to ensure that students aren\u2019t overloading to the point where they\u2019re diminishing their chances of being successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students visiting the Dawson building to register for September courses are facing some changes (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Harris says that it\u2019s common for many Camosun students to register in courses they may or may not want to take and then drop out at the last moment, which can get in the way of students who really need to be in that class to obtain their desired certification.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents will often register in up to dozens of courses and then sort of hedge their bets heading into the first couple weeks of the term. We were seeing a pretty significant number of students doing that,\u201d says Harris. (Harris was unable to provide numbers of how many students do this.)<\/p>\n

There are exceptions to the credit limit: the college will allow students who maintain a B+ average or higher to enroll in more than 20 credits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus is on success,\u201d says Harris.<\/p>\n

But Harris also points out that some Camosun programs\u2014for example, some computer programs\u2014require more than 20 credits in one term. Harris says this is \u201canother issue unto itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have some real discussions at Camosun about how we determine credits,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Harris also says that students who are slightly below the required average may still be able to register in more courses, depending on circumstances.<\/p>\n

Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) external executive Rachael Grant says that the CCSS was not directly involved in the implementation of the new credit limit, but she hopes Camosun students will respond positively to this change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was causing an issue for other students in that they might not be able to sign up for a class, and I imagine it was also a financial issue for the college when people are withdrawing from classes and there\u2019s this big empty spot where there could be students who are paying tuition,\u201d says Grant.<\/p>\n

Grant says that the change could work toward the greater good for both students and for the college.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intention seems to be very positive, and we hope that it will be a positive thing overall when it starts to play out,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping the benefit is maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant says the college should remain open to student feedback about the policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that as this is implemented the college is open to adjusting practices if this ends up negatively impacting students in some way,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of September of this year, Camosun College will be implementing a 20-credit registration limit. This will prevent students from registering in extra classes as a safeguard, a practice that the college says is making other students unable to get into the classes they want. Camosun registrar Scott Harris adds that this limit is coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-july-12-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14305,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302\/revisions\/14305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}