{"id":2854,"date":"2026-03-04T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:02:55","slug":"last-day-to-withdraw-from-full-semester-courses-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/last-day-to-withdraw-from-full-semester-courses-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day to Withdraw from Full-Semester Courses: March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear OWU Families, as we move further into the semester, we want to highlight an important date on the academic calendar:\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, March 31, 2026, is the final day for students to withdraw<\/strong>\u00a0from a full-semester course. While we always aim for success in the classroom, we recognize that sometimes a course doesn&#8217;t go as planned. If your student is struggling, a withdrawal might be the right strategic move, but it is a decision that requires careful thought beforehand.\u00a0<strong>Steps to Take Before Withdrawing<\/strong>\u00a0Before your student makes a final decision, please encourage them to take these three steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Talk to the Professor:<\/strong>\u00a0A quick visit to office hours can clarify if passing is still feasible or if there\u2019s a path to getting back on track.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visit the Sagan Academic Resource Center:<\/strong>\u00a0OWU offers free tutoring and academic coaching. Sometimes a few targeted sessions are all it takes to turn a grade around.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consult their Faculty Advisor:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s vital to see how dropping a course might shift their graduation timeline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What Does a &#8220;W&#8221; Mean?<\/strong>\u00a0A withdrawal places a\u00a0<strong>&#8220;W&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0on the transcript. While this\u00a0<strong>does not affect their GPA<\/strong>, it\u2019s important to note that the course will not count toward graduation units since it was not successfully completed.\u00a0<strong>Bottom Line:<\/strong>\u00a0If passing the course is no longer a realistic goal, a &#8220;W&#8221; is often a better alternative than a grade that significantly lowers their GPA, but this decision needs to be made and communicated\u00a0<strong>no later than March 31st, 2026.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Office of the Registrar<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Lee Richards at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:registrar@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registrar@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear OWU Families, as we move further into the semester, we want to highlight an important date on the academic calendar:\u00a0Tuesday, March 31, 2026, is the final day for students to withdraw\u00a0from a full-semester course. While we always aim for success in the classroom, we recognize that sometimes a course doesn&#8217;t go as planned. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[404,228,595,654],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owu-resources","tag-course-schedule","tag-deadline","tag-registrar","tag-withdraw"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}