Slipping away Physical add forms finished

CHELSEA WESTMAN Reporter @roundupnews

Students at Pierce College now receive permission codes instead of waiting in long lines at the Admissions and Records Office for add slips, which allow students to be enrolled in classes.

Up until the Fall 2017 semester, add slips were the only way to enroll in a course after classes came into fruition. Since then, the Los Angeles Community College District has implemented an immediate system, which makes it possible for students to join a class within minutes of receiving a permission code.

Dean of Student Services William Marmolejo said the new system has made the process more convenient for students. Marmolejo also expressed that the old policy was time consuming.

“Permission codes are a part of a new student information system called PeopleSoft,” Marmolejo said.

“The instructor gives the student a permission number, which is a unique number, and they can’t share it with another student because it is tied to them.”

Biology professor Brandon Jones said having permission codes are fast and favorable because he can give someone a code, and within minutes they are adding the class. This way he can get his rosters updated by the minute. Jones feels add slips made it difficult to keep track of which students were actually adding his classes.

“Sometimes I run out,” Jones said.