It is not just the individual courses that are now managed more directly. The entire core curriculum is also under tighter guidelines. To handle this organized core curriculum, two types of teaching teams have been developed. One of the four faculty is the course head. They continue to meet during the teaching semester to manage the daily issues of the class.
Some teams meet weekly via telephone or e-mail, while others meet physically.
The second teaching team is vertical. The vertical teaching team exists to facilitate a given set of instructors teaching a given set of students. The vertical teaching teams meet a minimum of four times per year. Three of those meetings are within a relatively short period of time, just before a six-week teaching period begins, halfway through a teaching period, and just after the teaching period ends. The additional meeting is a general planning session held about three months prior to the teaching period.