The instructor may want to consider using the common intersection of meeting dates between the campuses. Extra class hours may need to be scheduled to ensure that the course meets accreditation standards and federal financial aid regulations. The University should work for a common calendar for all campuses. There should be representation from all campuses in setting the calendar. Amherst has a common academic calendar with the Five College System and, because of cross campus enrollments, will need to maintain the calendar with the other four colleges in the Five College System.
Several campuses have experience with offering college courses to high school students.
High schools typically have a different calendar than the campus offering the course. Principle 6 Two different views of counting distance learning course FTE are required to adequately reflect the faculty workload and other resource issues involved with distance learning. This view is a valuable measure of the teaching workload. This view is a valuable measure of the administrative and academic advising expenditures of a campus. On a system level, the two views of a course will provide the same total count.