Policies & Procedures

Add/drop policies for fall term, winter term, spring term, and summer.

Effective Winter 2025

Approved by the Undergraduate Faculty, October 2, 2017

Catalog description for class absence policy for athletes.

Standard course blocks within the faculty’s course scheduling guidelines for fall and winter terms.

Spring term standard course blocks within the faculty’s course scheduling guidelines.

Credit from away policies.

Detailed information for First-Year students to help them determine what classes to register for in the fall term.

Results and registration recommendations from W&L placement tests.

Examination policies are outlined for each term. Departmental classrooms assignments during final examination week are listed. Policy for scheduling evening tests.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, ("the Act,” commonly referred to as “FERPA” or the “Buckley Amendment") is designed to protect the confidentiality of the records that educational institutions maintain on their students and to give students access to their records to assure the accuracy of their contents. The purposes of W&L’s Student Education Records Policy are: to inform students of their rights under the Act; to inform employees, student workers, third-party contractors, and volunteers of Washington and Lee’s responsibilities under the Act; and to describe the circumstances under which the university may disclose student education records.

Grading policies, instructions, calculations, and codes.

Policies and Request Procedure

Students may petition to create a major if no already-established majors meet their interests.

Internship policies and procedures for fall, winter, and summer.

Students with mastery of intermediate-level language skills in languages other than those offered at W&L may test in their language and receive an FDR-FL waiver.

Student petitions to the Committee on Courses and Degrees (C&D) or the Faculty Executive Committee (FEC)

Policies and procedures around repeating a previously graded course.

The most current Student Handbook.