Preliminary Results of Recent Deadline Changes
After extensive consultation and debate, the deadlines for undergraduates to add and drop courses and to change their grading option were adjusted effective fall 2005. Early evidence suggests that the effects have been positive.

Changes to Retroactive Actions
Effective fall 2006 the College of Letters and Science will no longer entertain requests for retroactive changes to students’ class schedules after the end of the term in question. This change will affect you and your students.

L&S Discovery Courses Off to a Great Start
Is a liberal arts education wasted on the young? The L&S Discovery Courses give us a new reason for optimism.

Seminar Success Story
How did one long-running Freshman and Sophomore Seminar produce three Photo Editors and at least half a dozen photographers for the Daily Cal? This story by one former student tells all.

L & S Colloquium on Undergraduate Education
In the first of a two-part forum, Emory University Professor of English Mark Bauerlein described what he sees as a precipitous drop in student interest in the traditional liberal arts curriculum. In the second colloquium, four Berkeley faculty members provided recipes for an antidote.

L & S Frosh Cohort Advising Coming Fall 2006
This new initiative is a direct result of Dean Robert Holub's vision to provide more personalized advising to students as they make the transition into the Cal community.