To Chairmen of University Departments:

Tho Chancellor has appointed the undersigned committees to coordinate and prepare
the University schedule for the fall term beginning on Soptember 23, and ending
on October 29.

It is highly desirable to have this schedule in print as carly as possible, in
fact it would seem advantageous to have it in the hands of students before the
Smwoelks! summer sossion closes so they might holp to publicizo it.

At this stage the prospects for students in the fall seem as follows:
1. A good onrollment of women, though not as many as wo had last fall.
2. A good enrolimont of freshmen men, and some sophomore men, but practi-
cally no civilian mon over 18 years of age except those doferred for
studies considored essontial in war, and 4i''s.

The fall somoster schedule should, therefore, provide the following:

ls A good offering of courses for freshmen and sophomorese We oxpect the
groat majority of next yoar's freshmen to onter at this time.

2- Enough upperclass courscs to permit tho majors in your department a
reasonable program. We suggest that departmental chairmen study their
office records or the transcripts in the deans‘ offices to determine the
most desirable upperclass courses for their majors who might be expected
to return.

Roughly, we need to go about three times as fast in a 5=weeks' term as in a regue
ler semester in order to cover a semester's work in a course. Accordingly, the
following schedule must be followed for lecture classes:
®-hour classes will meet 6 hours a week, that is for an hour each day, Mon-
day through Saturday.
Zehour classes will meet 10 hours a week, that is for a 2-hour period, Mon-
day through Fridaye
5<hour classes will meet 15 hours a week, that is for a 24-hour period,
Monday through Saturday, or for a 3<hour period, Monday through Friday. It
may be desirable to list 5-hour courses for part of the work in the morning
and part in the afternoone
Laboratory classes will need to triple poth the usual number of lectures
and tho usual number of laboratory hours per week.

Please avoid the tendency to put too many 2- and 3-hour classes at 8:50, 9:30,
and 10:30, since this rostricts tho student's choice of courses and makes the
classroom situation impossible.

May we have your schedule not later than July 20? And will you please type it in
the exact form used in this summer's schedules, a copy of which we are cncelosing?

We know it will be very difficult to decide on the courses your dopartment should
offer in this fall term, but so far we have guessed very well, and we believe we
can guess successfully once morede

Thank you very much for your prompt response,e-and good luck to yous

Paul Be Lawson, Chairman
John He Nelson
Gilbcrt Ulmer

P.Se With the coming of 700 Army mon on August 9, the room situation becomes
critical, so it will be necessary to schedule some classes at 7:30 and
12:30, and also to use the late afternoon hourse The committee hopes to be
able to schedule your classes in the rooms and at the hours indicated by
you, but the situation requires us to reserve the privilege of changing
both, if neceossarye as