In order to ensure adequate and equitable staffing of First-Year Seminars, each academic department, and each program that offers a major, shall annually allocate a minimum of 6%* of its teaching units to the First-Year Program as seminars, with every such department and program offering at least one seminar every year. Departments and programs offering courses to first-year students in one or more of the special programs (Interdisciplinary Science, Guided Studies, InterArts, and Cities) may count these courses toward meeting their allocation.

* The 6% allocation will typically be sufficient to staff first-year seminars. However, should circumstances arise under which this allocation percentage would not yield the number of seminars necessary to keep their average size around 12, a slightly higher allocation number would be used (between 6% and 7%). These circumstances might include a larger than anticipated first-year class, an unusually large number of faculty leaves or other released-time activities that would reduce the total of teaching units across the curriculum, or a smaller than anticipated number of students going into the special programs.

 (Passed December 5, 2000)