Please make note of the upcoming deadline to enter Winter Session 2026 courses into the MAUI Planner.

The planner is currently open for Winter 2026 courses and closes for editing on Friday June 5, 2025. Please use the same process for requesting winter session offerings as you use for summer session offerings by entering your program’s request into MAUI by May 22, 2026. 

As a reminder, Winter Session 2026 runs from Monday, Dec. 21, 2026 to Friday, January 15, 2027 (note that the session starts right after the Fall 2026 semester ends and the session ends right before the start of the Spring 2027 semester). 

During the winter session, there are classes scheduled over four weeks but several university holidays within the time frame as well, so there are fewer than 20 instructional days.

Instruction: Winter session courses may be taught by Instructional Track Faculty, Visitors or Adjuncts.

• Instructors will be compensated according to the CLAS summer (and winter) salary chart. Please see policy at this link: https://policy.clas.uiowa.edu/clas-policies-and-procedures/faculty/summerwinter-salary-teaching-course-new.
• Please discuss the use of Teaching Assistants with Assistant Dean Archibald and prior to adding the course in the course planner.

Enrollment: Winter courses are required to have a minimum enrollment cap of 30 and a maximum of 100. Historical offerings show that many courses do well with enrollments set to 40. Please reach out to Assistant Dean Archibald with questions related to course enrollments.

• The college reserves the right to cancel courses with enrollment less than 20.
• The course planner is open for editing for Winter Session and closes on June 5, 2026.

Process: Note that we now use a process for winter session course requests that is similar to the process for summer session. 

• If your department has a course and instructor that meet the criteria outlined above for Winter Session 2026, please enter all course information into the MAUI offerings planner by May 22, 2026.
• CLAS leadership will review all proposed courses in the offerings planner and CLAS Finance will provide the final winter session approved budget to those departments that have approved courses by June 2, 2026.
• CLAS plans to offer about 20 courses for the 2026 session due to the increased retention rates of CLAS students in order to help students make timely progress to graduation. 

Note: this memo was also published on May 6 and 13, 2026.