[OACRAO] 750 minute instructional time

[Dittman, Scott]

SACS has insisted that our definitions cover all minutes in compliance with federal law. We are also working on a "missed and made-up instructional time" report for our faculty to file, so we have documentation. In part this comes from the SACS letter last fall to colleges and universities who experienced missed class time for the hurricanes. They were advised to make up all the time!

Scott

Scott Dittman<http://www.wlu.edu/x34158.xml>, sdittman at wlu.edu<mailto:sdittman at wlu.edu>
University Registrar, Secretary of the Faculty
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia

From: OACRAO [mailto:oacrao-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Hutchens
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:56 PM
To: OACRAO <oacrao at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [OACRAO] 750 minute instructional time


Colleagues,

I have been asked to review our calendar to add in a fall break.

I am having trouble figuring how to meet instructional minutes for both full term and 7 week classes for a 14 week plus exam week. I understand how the calculations are done. My question is more specific as to if schools are meeting every minute of instructional time.

We have 4 credit courses. If we were to count exams in our instructional minutes 3000-120=2880/70 minutes, we would need 42 meetings. If I subtract out holidays and add exams we have a 14 week plus exams. However, 7 week  two credit classes have the exam within the 7 weeks. So I could not subtract exam time and they would need to be 1500 each.  I figure a 70 minute class would have to meet 22 times to make 1500 minutes which means that 7 week courses are short. Then if you subtract our holidays, it because more of a challenge. We would have about 20 meetings which does not fit in the 7 week sessions.

So my question is, am I taking this too literally? Can our overall calculation semester be fine and perhaps some sessions or one day a week classes come close? Looking at other school calendars, it seems that there may be some wiggle room?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Thank you,


Sue Hutchens | Registrar
Office of Academic Records
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