Completion of Thrive at Penn is no longer required for spring course registration.
Earlier this semester, all upperclassmen were notified that registration holds would be placed on undergraduates who did not complete the program.
But while all freshmen completed Thrive at Penn, only 646 of 8,132 upperclassmen had done the same by the start of this semester.
The policy mandating completion of the program was reversed in response to confusion about how students can verify whether they completed Thrive at Penn and how registration holds would work, according to Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson.
Administrators will continue to work with the Undergraduate Assembly and the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education in order to improve Thrive at Penn.
Students are still encouraged to complete the program.
“Thrive at Penn remains an important means of educating Penn students about resources and policies that help them succeed at Penn,” Nelson wrote in a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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