The Master Schedule is reaching a state of maturity and therefore minimal changes will be allowed. The following procedure will be followed for setting the Master schedule for each semester:

-          Registrar’s Office rolls the Master schedule from previous year’s master schedule (Fall to Fall & Spring to Spring) in the third week of the semester.

-          In coordination with the Core & PREP Department, Registrar’s Office determines the needed amendments on the CORE & PREP Schedule in the fourth week of the semester; the amendments on the CORE,  PREP Math and PREP English schedule includes:

1)     Offering New Sections

2)     Closing Sections

3)     Timing changes (should be very limited, and the new timing must not cause any conflicts.

-          The rolled schedule will be sent to the colleges along with the core schedule to ensure no conflicts between program courses and core courses that serve the students from different colleges and this step will be in the fifth week of the semester.

-          The colleges will review the rolled schedule and will determine the needed adjustments that includes:

1)     Offering New Sections

2)     Closing Sections

3)     Timing changes (should be very limited, and the new timing must not cause any conflict with any courses, and it is the college responsibility to ensure that the new timing doesn’t cause any conflicts based on the study plan).

-          The colleges send the schedule back to the registration’s office to be processed on Banner by end of the seventh week of the semester highlighting changes that they recommend.

-          The registration department will review the whole schedule and will inform the colleges if there is any conflict, or if there is a need to offer more sections of certain course by the end of the ninth week of the semester, but it is mainly the college responsibility to ensure that there are no conflicts and there is enough number of offered sections of each course.

-          Schedule should be announced to the students by the end of eleventh week of the semester for advising purposes.

-          After the beginning of registration, only minor changes due to unforeseen circumstances may be made. In this case, strong justification, guarantee of no conflict with the registered students’ schedules and approval of the Dean of Student Affairs is required to proceed with the changes needed. Faculty assignment may change without affecting the schedule of classes and without accountability to students, unless the registered students had failed the same course with the same instructor multiple times. In such cases, arrangements will be made to accommodate the affected student.

 -         After the registration period, sections with low enrollment (less than 5 students) may be closed and arrangements for students enrolled in those sections will be made. Arrangements include adding other courses to the affected student’s schedules or moving them to other available open section that doesn’t conflict with their current registered schedule. New sections are not to be created and existing sections are not to be split unless there is valid reason for that.