Pamela Marsh-Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Provost and Dean Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center, wrote:

Please remind undergraduate students in your classes/departments that they have until Monday, October 31 to drop a class with a "W." Doing so will have no adverse impact on their cumulative average. A "W" on one's transcript is nearly always preferable to an "F."

For more information, students should contact the office of their academic dean.

If you have not already done so, I urge you to provide some feedback to students on their performance in advance of this date. Such information would encourage those who need it to get additional help in time to make a difference in their performance as well as enable students to make a more informed decision on whether to continue in a course beyond the October 31 deadline.

Pamela Marsh-Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost and Dean
Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center
609 Goodell

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Contact person:
Susan P. Machala
Academic Advisor
Pre-Major Advising Services
615 Goodell
(413) 545-4681 (direct)
(413) 577-6300 (fax)
smachala@acad.umass.edu