As the College continues to manage our budget, we are working to streamline the review and approval process of visitor and adjunct requests. To help us be more responsive to departments and better plan the budget, we ask that all departments submit all visitor, overload, and adjunct fund requests for the fall 2026-spring 2027 academic year in the CLAS Max 2.0 system no later than Dec. 5, 2025.

If a DEO assigns a course release to a faculty member from the departmental course release allocation, and there is a strategic need to request salary supplement instead of a course release, these requests must also be submitted in CLAS MAX by the Dec. 5 deadline. 

This December deadline allows departments to know what courses are approved and what needs to be removed from the Offerings Planner before the Fall 2026 Schedule Builder opens to students in February. As requests are reviewed, the group will look at how each request supports balance across the General Education curriculum, how the course is required for majors, and overall enrollment.

Since the faculty deployment chart will have already been submitted in the File Cabinet, departments do not need to attach the chart to each CLAS Max request. If there are updates to the deployment chart since it was submitted, please submit a revised chart through the CLAS File Cabinet that includes a brief narrative for what has changed since the original submission. 

CLAS will not consider adjunct and visitor requests for the academic year after this Dec. 5, 2025, deadline unless they meet one of the criteria for emergency requests: faculty illness, unplanned retirement/termination, or course buyout.

By streamlining the timing for visitor and adjunct funding requests, we will be able to best work within the budget and be more responsive to ensuring funding decisions are made prior to the start of early registration in the spring.

Thank you.