Faculty Initiated Withdrawal Tedium: There is Always Someone Worse Off Than You.
(And she works for me. Please give her a break!)
The only thing worse than having to fill out dozens of faculty initiated withdrawals for all your semester deadbeats is being the person in R&R who has to CHECK and finish filling out hundreds and hundreds of them prior to scanning and imaging.
I am in total empathy to how tedious it is to both fill in all the bubbles on the faculty initiated withdrawal AS WELL AS write in all the information in the boxes above the bubbles. I’ve had to fill out piles of these forms for testing and it is a drag. Yet it is essential that both the bubbles AND the boxes be filled in. And if you don’t do that, someone else has to. And to make it worse, it is the same individual who has to correct and complete all the FIWs. Talk about tedious!
We need the bubbles filled in or the forms won’t scan. That is pretty easy to understand. But why do we need the boxes above the bubbles filled in? We use these to make corrections to the FIW when the form is rejected because the course or the student does not exist due to faulty bubbling. We also need this information filled out so that when we image the forms for posterity they are easy to read. When you pull up an imaged form, it is difficult to read and interpret the bubbles. We need the information written in the boxes to do research from imaged forms.
Because this imaged information is so important and so often accessed, we absolutely must have those boxes filled in. And if you don’t do it, someone else has to. You may have to fill out dozens of FIWs a semester but she alone has to fill out EVERY FIW that is not complete. Please give her a break and fill out your faculty initiated withdrawal completely!
Deborah Benjamin
Registration and Records
10/05/2005 |