<p>Saw this online:</p>
<p>Senior</a> citizens upset after Wellesley College cancels audit program - The Boston Globe</p>
<p>What do current students make of it?</p>
<p>This was announced to current students over the summer, or possibly even at the end of the spring term. Personally, it doesn’t affect me very much; I have had possibly only one auditor in my classes after three years of being here. The registrar’s office has indeed experienced some staffing cuts and they have adjusted things accordingly. I think what is more worrisome to current students is the changing policy of self-scheduled final exams. Because of the registrar staffing cuts, if a class wants to have a self-schedule exam, the professor will have to conduct it him/herself (from my understanding). Granted, I have not experienced a rise in the number of scheduled exams and I think most professors are opting to do what they’ve always done in the past, be it self-scheduled or not.</p>
<p>^^The professor has to offer some rather moderate amount of proctoring help if they want to have self-scheduled exams. Being that, as far as I know, the professor has to administer a scheduled exam (at least, that’s how it was for the one scheduled exam I’ve had), I don’t really think this change will push professors into offering many more scheduled exams. Plus, many professors are very vocally pro-self-scheduled exams, so I think that the liklihood of self-scheduled exams being phased out is very low.</p>
<p>The latest campus newspaper reports that this program has been reinstated. (I only had time to glance at the headline, so I’m not sure if the program is working the same way as it did in previous years.)</p>