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For tenure-track and tenured faculty members, accommodations in cases of cancelled courses may include strategies such as:. This will be especially true for those whose performance has been superior. Please contact the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs for suggested language that can be used in the offer letters given to such individuals.

Careful planning of courses is necessary to ensure that offer letters with such language are needed for only a small number of individuals. According to HomerConnect, as of April 21, the Fall semester is offering 1, sections for students, fewer sections than Fall and fewer sections than Spring The fall semester starts August Registrar Vikki Levine said registration will stay open through August Levine said she has not seen increased concern from students and faculty about the course offerings but said the decrease could be attributed to lower enrollment at the college.

According to previous reporting from The Ithacan , Laurie Koehler, vice president for marketing and enrollment strategy, said enrollment numbers for Fall could be released late in the summer. Some of the most heavily affected departments and majors include the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences , which is offering 35 fewer sections in Fall compared to Fall , according to HomerConnect. The Department of Writing is offering 23 fewer sections.

The Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education, which houses the health education, physical education , and health education and physical education majors and will be eliminated , is offering 15 fewer sections. The television — radio major, housed in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, is offering 10 fewer sections. Jennifer Herzog, lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts, said she has been teaching Acting I at the college for 11 years.

In a typical semester, one or more sections have spaces available for students who are not theat er majors or minors. However, Catherine Weidner, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre Arts, said seats for the class are now restricted to incoming theat er majors only.

She said other students will not be able to register for the course unless there are open seats after current and incoming theat er majors have registered. The Department of Theatre Arts offered sections of courses in Fall , in Spring and is offering in Fall Some students are finding that the decrease in course offerings has impacted their course registration, leading them to shift around their schedules to fulfill requirements.

Junior Maia Finkel said she plans to student teach during the fall semester and has been struggling to find enough Block I courses to take in order to qualify as a full-time student.

Students need to be full time in order to receive financial aid and scholarships. Currently, there are 59 Block I sections offered for Fall , 12 fewer than the 71 sections offered in Fall Freshman Alexa Johnson said she is worried about meeting her communication management and design major requirements if there continues to be fewer courses offered at the college.

Patricia Rodriguez, associate professor and chair of the Department of Politics, said the decrease in courses offered by the department is partially because of the loss of faculty members. The department offered 39 sections of courses in Fall , 42 sections in Spring and will be offering 23 sections in Fall Personally, I see in the future a possible restriction for faculty in what they want to teach, which will limit the range of topics offered to students. Online courses give students the chance to complete their education without the time and location requirements that can make traditional education impossible.

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