This review would include comparing the university's bulletins to peer institutions and national standards and evaluating changes in the ways universities are publishing information over the Internet. The scheduling and space allocation processes of the university currently provide adequate methods for scheduling classes and resolving facilities conflicts. These processes are central to the university's basic function and need to be as efficient and accurate as possible. To date, the university has developed an adequate process for scheduling and space utilization involving the Registrar's Office, Academic Advising, the Calendar Office, and the department chairs. This report describes how current scheduling and space allocation processes adequately serve the university but also suggests that the university has not developed any systematic assessment criteria for determining the effectiveness of these processes and has no university-wide plans for making the processes less time consuming for the administrative offices, academic advisors, department chairs, and students.
Recommendations Continue to decentralize the scheduling process.
By assigning classroom facilities to each department, the university enables academic units to develop schedules quickly based on facilities under their control. As soon as a department's schedule is entered into the master database, then its unused facilities are available to other departments and for non-academic use. Update the university's scheduling software to give departments the ability to maintain their schedules. Currently the Registrar's Office is the central office responsible for the production of the academic schedule. Giving departments access to the information system producing the schedule of classes and resolving conflicts would free the Registrar's Office from its role as a mediator between departments but still give them control over the publication of the academic schedule.