On Nov. 5, Bowling Green State University (BGSU) students who enrolled in EDTL 2020, Teaching Adolescents, were met with a surprise when they received an email stating that the time and location of the class would be changed in order to allow more students to take the course. 

The unanticipated change left several students feeling confused and frustrated. 

Sophomore AYA Integrated Social Studies Education major Dakota Beach said, “It personally really upset me that after we had all registered, [BGSU] was able to change it without taking into account the students’ schedules.” 

According to BGSU Manager of Media Relations Michael Bratton, EDTL 2020 was the only class in the College of Education and Human Development that experienced changes in its time and location and the college attempted to minimize overall changes to students’ schedules before enacting the change.

The college also worked with a student who had a scheduling conflict due to this change in order to ensure they would be able to maintain their overall schedule.

While efforts are being made to mitigate any inconvenience, information about the changed class time and location may have been more beneficial to students before they scheduled their classes, not after. 

Anonymous sophomore AYA Integrated Language Arts Education major said, “It is confusing to me that they are able to change the time of classes two weeks after they have already been scheduled.” 

“I had imagined the times of classes would be non-variable,” they said. “So, I’m frustrated.”