CHAPTER 200 Academic Affairs

280.1 Use of Indoor Educational Facilities

Classrooms may be reserved Sunday through Saturday, 7:00 AM – 10:00PM.

281 Guidelines for Scheduling Classes

Assignment of classes to rooms allocated for instructional use is the responsibility of the University Scheduling Office, who will make classroom assignments in collaboration with appropriate department heads/chairs or their designees.

282 Departmental Responsibility

Department heads/chairs or their designees are responsible for submitting scheduling requests based upon the directives of the University Scheduling Office. Such scheduling requests are under the following constraints:

1. Facility limitations make it necessary for each discipline to schedule 50% of all lectures outside of the hours of 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Guidance for distribution of lecture classes can be obtained from the University Scheduling Office.
2. Course additions (e.g. Selected Advanced Topics and experimental courses) and changes to existing course offerings (e.g. change course title, description or structure) as defined in the University Catalog may be reflected in the Class Schedule only upon approval from the Office of Academic Programs and Undergraduate Education.
3. Lecture/seminar/discussion classes will be scheduled to meet in general purpose lecture rooms. Laboratory/activity classes will be scheduled to meet in laboratory spaces.
4. In order for footnotes to be included in the Class Schedule, departments must make a notation of their request when submitting their initial schedule.

Except as authorized by the appropriate college dean or necessitated in order to meet resource requirements or student demand, all classes will be held as listed in the Class Schedule.

It shall be the department’s responsibility to make the determination and notify the University Scheduling Office of the name and team teaching fraction for each instructor involved in teaching a section in the schedule. Instructor names are to be listed in the Class Schedule for all sections, except those where instructors have not yet been appointed.

283 Lectures

Lecture sections should be distributed throughout the day following the approved scheduling time patterns. A copy of the scheduling time patterns may be obtained from the University Scheduling Office. Saturday classes may be scheduled as needed.

Lecture classes are not to be scheduled during the University Hour, Thursdays at 11:00 AM, without the prior approval of the Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Undergraduate Education.

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, hour-and-one-half classes may not be scheduled to begin earlier than 4:00 PM due to facility limitations. A department may, however, begin hour-and-one-half classes at 3:00 PM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays if it schedules two classes consecutively: one from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM and the other from 4:40 PM to 6:00 PM.

284 Activities

Activity classes should be scheduled throughout the day. Activity classes that meet continually for a two-hour period or longer may schedule one of the hours to meet during the University Hour, Thursdays at 11:00 AM, provided there is another section offered at some other time during the week.

285 Laboratories

Laboratory classes should be scheduled during the hours of 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Adherence to these time periods should be attempted to permit students greater scheduling flexibility around these time blocks. Laboratory classes that meet continually for a two-hour period or longer may schedule one of the hours to meet during the University Hour, Thursdays at 11:00 AM, provided there is another section offered at some other time during the week.