For the reasons outlined above this issue was brought before the Faculty Senate Computer Policy Committee for discussion in the fall. Courses may switch to other classrooms but they will be treated as a new schedule request and must work around the present room schedule. We expect to see many benefits from this system. For one, departments will be able to plan ahead for courses that currently use computer labs and this should make the scheduling process easier to manage for departments. Departments can make a request to have a new course added to the permanent schedule of courses if it meets the above criteria and the time slot requested is open.
Many courses only use a computer lab for a few classes during the semester.
To make sure that this type of usage is not shut out by this policy change UCS will be creating a new computer classroom for fall 99 and this classroom will be dedicated to this type of usage.