SAS Faculty Resources: Time Schedule

Enrollment Goals/Section Needs

 

The following are pieces of the enrollment picture that Student Academic Services reviews annually. This is a glance into the mind of a university registrar:

 

Continuing Students

• Review the persistence goal, and review the need for seats in UCOR/UFDN 2000 and 3000/3100 courses.
• Check to see if we have seniors graduating early, or stopping during Autumn or Winter Quarter who still plan on finishing Spring Quarter.
• Review School of Health Sciences prerequisites that need to be taken. 
• School of Health Sciences majors that need specific UFDN 3100/UCOR 3000 sections at a specific time.
• Monitor majors (intended and declared) to see trends.
• Look at number of students on study abroad and track their needs.

 

Incoming Students

Freshmen

• 40 students will be admitted to the University Scholars program.
• About 25–35 students will come in with a direct transfer agreement from community colleges and start their majors, completing all Common and Exploratory Curriculum.
• Check the possible advanced-placement credits, and how those will fulfill Exploratory (based on College Board predictors and the previous class's actual AP credits).
• The above listed numbers narrows down and results in how many University Seminar  sections are needed.

Check intended majors:

• Science-major versus non-science majors and impacts on entry courses (BIO 2101 and CHM 1211).
• Art-sequence courses for multiple majors (ART 1102).

Transfers

• Students coming from a community college versus transferring from other institutions.
• The number of direct transfer agreement holders.
• UCOR 1000 and UFDN 1000 (two sections) in Autumn Quarter that generally fill (UAS counselors manage the UCOR 1000 section intentionally)
• Need a new section of UFDN 1000 in Winter Quarter that is set aside for transfers so we don't impact the combining of USEM's with UFDN and UCOR designed for freshmen.
• Try to determine who will need UFDN 3001 versus UFDN 1000. (This is getting increasingly more difficult as we have fewer juniors and more sophomores transferring in.)
• Review intended majors specifically for School of Business and Economics, School of Health Sciences, and School of Education, as well as programs such as visual communications,, premed (including exercise science and nutrition), communication, interiors, clothing and textiles, and psychology..

 

Section and Classroom Considerations

• Only duplicate sections can be offered at 3 p.m. or later.
• No Exploratory Curriculum/1000-2000 level courses at 9:30 a.m. Monday/Wednesday/Fridays.
• Having enough sections of general classes in the Arts and Humanities A general classes.
• Balance of nonmajor and major-specific sequences during each block.
• No duplicate sections offered in the same block.
• No additional graduate programs offered during the daytime (no classroom space to accommodate).
• Hold back on scheduling a section of UFDN, art and languages until we determine which is needed based on student needs. For example:
  • UFDN 3001 or 2000
  • SPN 1101, 1102, or 1103
  • ART 1102 or 1103