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<\/a>Harris says 20 percent of the students who use PTR forms end up dropping the course. The responsibility is not on the student in this process, says Harris, but on the instructor to make a decision for the student. Harris says that one of the central points around this change is to have students control their own destiny.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is all part of attempting to curb some of the hoarding behaviours that we\u2019ve been seeing,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the past, students have been registering in 12 to 15 sections, kind of hedging their bets and figuring out which ones they want and then dropping them at the last second, and then leaving those spaces all empty, where nobody else can get into those courses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) external executive Mitchell Auger-Langejan says UVic has manual enrolment and that, at Camosun, it \u201cis something students will adjust to, organizationally.\u201d (The college will now email students when a spot becomes available.)<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat it means for students, if they\u2019re unaware of it and are used to the old system, they might lose their spots on the waitlist,\u201d he says. \u201cThey can be selected for it, but if they don\u2019t see the email, they\u2019ll miss that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
When they become first on the waitlist, students will have a 24-hour period where they can enrol. They will receive the email informing them they can enrol, and if they don\u2019t do so after 24 hours, the next person on the waitlist will be offered the spot. Auger-Langejan says students will have to frequently check their email.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know that it\u2019ll have any inherent consequences to it, it\u2019s just something students need to be made aware of,\u201d says Auger-Langejan, adding that there is a notice on Camosun\u2019s website about the change (students were also emailed about it). \u201cRegistration has taken place before the change occurred, so anyone who is waitlisted now has the opportunity to view the email they were sent. I don\u2019t know that there will be any serious impacts to students when it comes to getting into the courses they\u2019re interested in. They just need to check their email. This can also be helpful to students that are very eager to get in a course.\u201d<\/p>\n
First-year Camosun psychology student Scott Joly says it puts the impetus on students to stay on top of their course registration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of people who are going to miss their opportunity,\u201d says Joly.<\/p>\n
Camosun Arts and Science student Matt Stouffer says that he registers for classes as early as possible so he doesn\u2019t have to deal with waitlists.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never experienced this problem so I personally don\u2019t have an emotional opinion on it,\u201d he says. \u201cI avoid those waitlists at all costs. I don\u2019t want to be on the waitlist, I want to be in the class; therefore, I do it as early as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris says the college is also \u201clooking to provide an accurate picture of demand\u201d for courses. He says that with the previous waitlist procedure it was hard to know how many students actually needed and wanted the courses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more accurate we can make the numbers, the more it can actually feed into our decision about how many sections to offer,\u201d says Harris, saying that the PTR form \u201cin many ways effectively disregards the waitlist that has existed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know what the individuals are experiencing that were on that waitlist,\u201d he says, \u201cso to just toss that out and then whoever was able to be there at that moment in time with the best story gets in doesn\u2019t seem particularly fair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Second year Mechanical Engineering student Justin Manlargit says the new waitlist policy is better because people who change their minds about a course won\u2019t block someone else from getting in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always try to register as early as possible, so I\u2019ve never gotten waitlisted,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Harris says students missing their opportunity to register is \u201cabsolutely a concern.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents need to be really mindful and paying attention to the emails if that course is truly important to them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Harris says that more information for students and staff about the procedure changes will come out soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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