Word: syllabi
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...instead allow professors to electronically approve students’ enrollment requests, and could enable advisors to approve of a virtual study card with the click of a mouse, not the scrawl of a pen. Improvements to shopping period should not come from the Registrar alone; professors should post full syllabi on their course web sites well before the first class meeting—in place of the partial or nonexistent syllabi often found online in advance of this semester’s shopping period—so that students can get a more complete sense of the course content...
...enforced inconsistently. The UC schools are run by the California Board of Regents, but the standards for a-g subject areas are set by the Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools (BARWS), a committee of the UC Faculty Senate. The Undergraduate Admissions Office then reviews course textbooks and syllabi against the stated criteria. Courses that meet the BARWS standards are approved for credit, and a list of courses that meet the UC standards is sent to each school and added to an online searchable database.To argue that the BARWS standards violate free speech, Calvary and the ACSI will need...
...with classes. Thanks to Harvard’s Sept. 19 start date, the 36 Gulf Coast students here were able to begin classes with the rest of the student body. But most other schools were like Vanderbilt University, where classes were already a week and a half into their syllabi before the 83 Gulf Coast students enrolled as emergency visiting students...
...report also contains sample syllabi for broad new classes, called “portal” courses. These year-long classes would fulfill the entire requirement for a given general education area, in place of three semester courses...
Professors should also post syllabi (or at least reading lists) earlier. This will allow students to search for cheaper alternatives online and in the used markets before classes start. Case in point: the syllabus and reading list for History 10a were posted the first day of class, leaving students scrambling to the nearest, and most expensive, book merchants to fill up their shelves. Submitting reading lists earlier could even help the Coop keep prices lower by allowing longer lead times for its staff to negotiate with distributors and to buy back books from students...