Small Class Reporting Guidelines 

·        Only courses designated as lecture, laboratory, or seminar are reported in the small class report which is presented by the Provost and VPAA to the Board of Regents each semester.  Maymester and Summers I & III are considered together.

·        A small class is one that does not meet the minimum number of students: ten students for undergraduate courses and five students for graduate courses.

·        In the week following the census day, colleges must send justifications for small classes to the Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Studies.  Only the following THECB justifications will be accepted:

Code 1:  Required course for graduation

Code 2:  Required course for majors in this field and should be completed this

              semester to keep proper sequences in courses

Code 3:  Course in newly established degree program, concentration, or support

              area

Code 4:  Bracketed and interdepartmental (cross-listed) courses taught as a single class by the same faculty at the same station, provided that the combined courses do not constitute a small class

Code 5:  First time offering of the course

Code 6:  Class size limited by accreditation or state licensing standards

Code 7:  Class size limited by availability of laboratory or clinical facilities

Code 8:  Voluntarily offered by a faculty member in excess of the institutional

              teaching load requirements and for which the faculty member receives

              no additional compensation (faculty is teaching course as an overload)

·        Justifications are compared against a computer-generated list of small classes/cross-listed classes (obtained from ITS).  Each class on the list must have a justification

·        The Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Studies prepares a report for the Provost.

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