Andrea,
I see in the Digest that we are now going to have to do quarterly reviews of our staff, which I understand many staff do NOT want. Even more, I’m not sure what the value added would be for the time it would take. I haven’t seen the format,
so maybe it will be helpful, but I have my doubts. What happens in three months that would warrant such a review for an Admin Asst, for example? Is this something we can discuss at the next Chairs meeting? Or maybe this is NOT for all staff? It just comes
as a surprise, and I wondered if it applies to us, if we, the chairs, can discuss it.
Thanks,
GAIL MURPHY-GEISS, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
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Dear chairs, directors, and administrative assistants,
Thanks to your very thoughtful work on the course grids, when I merged all of your draft grids the course schedule looked nicely balanced. Kudos to all of you for this shared effort!!! Please move forward with
building your courses in Banner, guided by the blocks/visitor positions that were approved in a previous email. This process opens today and
closes on March 8. Christine Brett will be in touch shortly with additional instructions.
If you need to make small changes to your course grid, please use the attached planning document as a guide, for example to decide to which block to move a class that may need to be moved.
For example, on page 1 you can see that seats are pretty evenly distributed across the blocks. We have sufficiently many seats in each of the General Education categories (p.2). Page 4 shows the distribution of seats broken down by General Education designation.
If you have block visitors teaching an Equity & Power (U.S.) class yet to be scheduled or a class that may need to be moved away from block 6, then blocks 7 or 8 would work well. Similarly, there's room in block 2 for Historical Perspectives classes.
To avoid over-scheduling in Block 1, let's not move additional classes to this block. Consider scheduling block visitor blocks with instructors TBD for later in the fall semester or spring,
as enrollment in classes that don't yet have a name attached during pre-registration in Block 7 tend to have lower enrollments.
Seats for first-year students in first-year friendly (FYF, see also p.3) classes: These are seats in classes without prerequisites and ideally have a General Education designation.
Please reserve
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about 1/3 to 1/2 of the seats in your FYF classes with GenEd designations in Block 2 (we need about 230 seats),
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about 1/3 to 1/2 of the seats in your FYF classes with GenEd designations in Block
3 (we need about 500 seats to have a bit of a surplus),
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and at least 1/2 of the seats in your FYF classes with GenEd designations in Block 4 (we need about 500 seats)
for first-year students. You may have already done this - please be in touch with Aaron Stoller to confirm your department's/program's CC100 and CC120 classes and make
sure they are scheduled in the right blocks.
Thank you for your partnership to create a balanced course schedule and set our incoming students up for success. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything that
I can assist you with.
Best wishes,
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