Administrative Drop/Add Request

An instructor may drop a student from their class because they do not meet the pre-requisites and/or they never attended as outlined by the Administrative Drop Policy.

In doing so, courses become available to other students on the wait list. Additionally, this process helps prevent students from being in debt for courses they are not attending.

In order to Administratively Drop: Log into LOUIE; click on “Faculty Center”; click “Admin Drop”. You may also follow these step-by step instructions.

An instructor may add a student to a class if they have been dropped, are on the waitlist, or by searching for the student. Administrative Adds override a student into a class in accordance with each department’s enrollment guidelines.

You may now Administratively Add by logging into LOUIE; click on “Faculty Center”; click “Admin Add”. You may also follow these step-by step instructions.

The previous Administratively Add or Swap tool will no longer be available after Spring 2026.

The Administrative Request deadlines can be found on the Session Deadlines Calendar.  Requests must be received before the deadlines for each session (ONE calendar day prior to the add deadline). Shorter session classes have pro-rated deadlines and do not follow the 16 week session timelines.

Dynamically Dated Session deadlines may not be the same as the regular sessions as outlined above. Requests must be received before the deadlines for each session (ONE calendar day prior to the add deadline). View the Dynamically Dated Session Deadlines for more information.

Administrative requests submitted after the deadline will not be processed.