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Priority registration for student groups tabled
Registration priority for first-time athletes and honors students on hold. Discussions will continue in fall 2004
Sindy Diaz
Issue date: 5/12/04 Section: News
The debate over a proposal to grant priority registration to first-time athletes and honor students will resume in fall 2004.
If approved by the Board of Trustees, priority registration would permit the two groups to register before the regular student body, ensuring that they can enroll in classes they need to transfer.
The proposal was recently put to a vote in both the Student Services Committee and in the faculty Academic Senate. In both meetings, the proposal failed to receive enough votes to pass. If passed, it would have been implemented in the fall.
"When we held our meeting, the Student Services Committee had not given us an affirmative vote on it," said Tom Gerfen, president of Academic Senate. "The timing and sequence of when the committees met, presented an obstacle."
Marilyn Gunstream, physical education professor, introduced the proposal to extend priority registration to athletes at a faculty Academic Senate meeting on Feb. 11.
Because the process was begun late in the year, the committees have run out of time to revise the proposal and vote to approve it, said Dr. Jeanne Hamilton, vice president of student services.
"When we are making changes to a policy, we do it carefully and make sure that what is being proposed is done so correctly," Hamilton said.
Because priority registration is a student service, the change in policy has to be presented to the students and other college personnel, such as staff and classified members, as well as the senate, Hamilton said.
According to Board Policy 5200, only students registered in Disabled Students Programs and Services, and Extended Opportunities Programs and Services are granted priority registration as mandated by law.
At Citrus, about 550 students are enrolled in both programs. If priority registration is approved for honors students and first-time athletes, the number of eligible students will increase to 840.
"Priority registration is long overdue for our student athletes and honors program," said Art Briones, dean of counseling.
If approved by the Board of Trustees, priority registration would permit the two groups to register before the regular student body, ensuring that they can enroll in classes they need to transfer.
The proposal was recently put to a vote in both the Student Services Committee and in the faculty Academic Senate. In both meetings, the proposal failed to receive enough votes to pass. If passed, it would have been implemented in the fall.
"When we held our meeting, the Student Services Committee had not given us an affirmative vote on it," said Tom Gerfen, president of Academic Senate. "The timing and sequence of when the committees met, presented an obstacle."
Marilyn Gunstream, physical education professor, introduced the proposal to extend priority registration to athletes at a faculty Academic Senate meeting on Feb. 11.
Because the process was begun late in the year, the committees have run out of time to revise the proposal and vote to approve it, said Dr. Jeanne Hamilton, vice president of student services.
"When we are making changes to a policy, we do it carefully and make sure that what is being proposed is done so correctly," Hamilton said.
Because priority registration is a student service, the change in policy has to be presented to the students and other college personnel, such as staff and classified members, as well as the senate, Hamilton said.
According to Board Policy 5200, only students registered in Disabled Students Programs and Services, and Extended Opportunities Programs and Services are granted priority registration as mandated by law.
At Citrus, about 550 students are enrolled in both programs. If priority registration is approved for honors students and first-time athletes, the number of eligible students will increase to 840.
"Priority registration is long overdue for our student athletes and honors program," said Art Briones, dean of counseling.