This memo is number three of three: updates pertaining to CLAS programs of study and the General Education CLAS Core can be found in separate memos.

This memo contains updates to CLAS policies and practices concerning undergraduate curriculum approved during the 2024-2025 academic year and included in the 2025-2026 General Catalog. These changes are effective as of the fall 2025 session unless otherwise indicated. 

• Admission criteria for the college’s three majors that allow the Online Learning Center (Enterprise Leadership BA, Political Science BA, and Sport and Recreation Management BS) were updated to better align with admission requirements for on-campus majors. Effective spring 2025, admission standards are the same for both on-campus and online majors, with the exception that students who declare the Online Learning Center for one of the three eligible majors must have at least 30 semester hours of earned college credit.
• The Undergraduate Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee approved making it a CLAS policy that going forward no undergraduate course will be approved as repeatable an unlimited number of times. Departments should determine the maximum amount of credit they would want a course to grant toward completion of their programs of study and set repeatability caps accordingly.
• CLAS has established criteria for granting out-of-class midterm examination times. CLAS courses are eligible for midterm examinations scheduled outside of their regular class meeting times if the exam must be administered in person and at least one of the following conditions is met: the course has over 200 students enrolled and needs more physical space for testing than for class meetings; the course is taught in multiple sections but needs all students across those sections to take the test at the same time; or the course has over 50 students enrolled, meets for a 50-minute time block, and requires more time than 50 minutes for the midterm examination. For more information about this policy, including the process for requesting an out-of-class midterm examination time, please see this page on the CLAS resource site.
• CLAS worked with the Office of the Registrar to add a field to the “final exam assignment needs” form in MAUI, in which instructors will be asked to specify the length of their final examinations, choosing from 60 minutes, 80 minutes, or 120 minutes. The standard exam schedule will still be using two-hour blocks for classroom scheduling, but reporting how much of that time will actually be used will help alleviate some of the pressure on the alternate testing locations that serve students with time-based accommodations. For more information about this policy, please see this page on the CLAS resource website.
• CLAS has established an intake form for departments to use when proposing curricular or structural changes that will affect undergraduate programs of study. Beginning in fall 2025, there will be a deadline of October 1 for submitting the form for any proposed changes that departments wish to go into effect the following fall. The form can be found on the CLAS resource website, along with information about which types of changes require collegiate approval.
• The most current version of the CLAS syllabus template (for the 2025-2026 academic year) can be found on the CLAS resource website, along with a changelog and a separate resources document.