Policy established March 2011

If a regular, on-campus course has 15 or fewer undergraduates or 6 or fewer graduate students enrolled in it, it cannot count toward part of a faculty member’s teaching load.

The faculty member must recruit more students to the course to reach the minimum enrollment. Otherwise, the course will be cancelled and the faculty member will be reassigned to help teach or support a larger course. In addition, no faculty member should teach a low enrollment course while the department is paying an outside instructor to teach a different course. Paid outside instructors should not teach low enrollment courses.