Schedule Review Team

Central Michigan University

Review of Priorities

• Course scheduling efficiency: – Use data to ensure the right courses are being offered– Use data to ensure the right number of sections/seats

are being offered

• Reduce primetime scheduling in classrooms

Team Objectives

• Short term:1. Identify most meaningful changes that can be made

to the Fall 2013 schedule to improve student success and efficiency

2. Communicate these suggested changes to scheduling decision makers within academic departments

• Long term:1. Identify patterns in scheduling efficiencies/

inefficiencies in order to suggest policy and or informal scheduling protocol

Roles & Responsibilities• All:

1. Provide necessary supplemental information and/or research to filter list of suggested changes in order to identify “pearls” (most meaningful recommendations)

2. Collaborate to finalize list of “pearls”3. Determine communication plan/messaging strategy to decision

makers (i.e. provide context for these data and rationale for the changes)

• College/Department Representative:1. Communicate “pearls” to scheduling decision makers within

academic departments• Executive Sponsors:

1. Determine appropriate accountability measures for schedule changes (focused on priorities: right courses/# of sections and meeting pattern adherence, especially hybrids)

Report Orientation & Review

Homework & Timelines• Apply your knowledge of course offerings (outside

of or within your own department) and/or research the suggested changes

• Bring comments back to the group at the next meeting

• Gain consensus at next meeting for final list of “pearls” to be communicated to decision makers

• Set deadline for “pearls” to be communicated• Registration start date: all changes made prior to

registration opening