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This Month’s Ideas

Improving Success in 1^st 15 Credit Hours

Why Move Toward Precision Scheduling?
1. Reducing the number of classes that have to be added.
2. Reducing the number of classes that have to be cancelled.
3. Provide a schedule that does not conflict across disciplines.
4. Enable us to hire adjuncts earlier and provide training; reduction in late hiring and reassignment of faculty.
5. Better faculty and adjunct hiring projections
6. Reduce the jerking around of full time faculty by reducing cancelled classes.
7. Better bookstore pre ordering.
8. Better schedule planning.
9. Better advising.
10. Better faculty and adjunct hiring cost projections
11. Student average load increases; less drop/add
12. Improved services to first-time students