Procedure No.: 01.024 Page No.: 1,2,3,4,and 5 of 5 Date Issued: 8/17/98 Issued By: Tom Daniels
a. At least 15% of the regular undergraduate class and/or laboratory meetings must begin at 8:00 a.m. or 12:00 noon.b. At least 15% of the regular undergraduate class and/or laboratory meetings must begin at or after 3:00 p.m.
c. At least 15% of the regular undergraduate class and/or laboratory meetings must be held on Friday.
a. High demand undergraduate classes in particular should be scheduled at 8:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, or after 3:00 p.m., and Friday should be included as a meeting day for those classes.b. Freshmen and sophomore level classes should be scheduled in one hour time periods. Undergraduate classes generally should not be scheduled for two-hour time periods, especially between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Classes that may be exceptions to this recommendation are laboratory, screening, studio, and performance classes, particularly when classes involving these activities are a large component of the type of instruction characteristic of the department.
c. Undergraduate classes should be scheduled on prescribed days based on the number of days a week that the class meets, e.g., a MWF schedule for classes that meet for three credit hours per week or any combination of days that includes Fridays for classes that meet four or five credit hours per week. This guideline applies to classes that meet between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.d. Courses for majors should be scheduled on Fridays and at the hours of 8:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, and after 3:00 p.m. so that conflicts with elective courses can be reduced.
e. Labs should not be scheduled contiguously with the lecture period (e.g., avoid scheduling a 9 - 10 lecture followed by a 10-12 lab) so that laboratory space may be better utilized, and students can maximize their opportunity to schedule other courses.
a. The initial schedule plans for each department and school will be checked for conflicts.b. Once schedule plans are checked, all remaining space will be available for assignment to classes in departments or schools needing spaces for classes. Classroom needs will be filled by the Registrar's Office from this "pool" of unscheduled rooms and hours.
c. Departments and schools must report any change of scheduled use of classrooms to the Registrar's Office.
d. Deans may request that special use rooms be kept out of the "pool" by filing the Space Exclusion Request form with Space Management (see provision 13). The total number of such rooms in each college should be small, and requests for exclusion from the pool will be reviewed by Space Management.
Approved changes that do not entail renovations will be reported to Institutional Research by the Space Management. Changes involving renovations will be reported to Institutional Research by Facilities Management. Approved changes in the function or configuration of schedulable space will be reported to the Registrar by Institutional Research.
The Space Advisory Council includes representation from each Athens campus planning unit. The colleges of Arts & Sciences, Business, Communication, Education, Engineering & Technology, Fine Arts, and Health & Human Services supply faculty representatives. Arts & Sciences has one additional faculty representative, and four additional positions are occupied by deansÕoffice staff from the above colleges on a rotating basis.
In order to allow for unit rotation between groups, the Office of Institutional Research has permanent membership on space management group only. Each planning unit except Institutional Research will alternate its periods of service between the two groups, although Arts & Sciences always will have a representative in each group.
Each group of the Space Advisory Council will elect a chairperson, and the two chairpersons will serve on the Space Executive Committee. The Space Executive Committee also includes the Provost, Vice President for Administration, Associate Provost for Space and Planning, as well as the Director of Facilities Planning, and Director of Facilities Management as ex officio members. The Space Executive Committee is the agency responsible for final space management, basic renovation, and capital improvement recommendations to the president.
Kathy Llewellyn revised this file (http://www.ohiou.edu/policy/01-024.html) on April 12, 2000.
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