Acad Scheduling & Space Mgt (AS&SM): Fall 2025 – Lecture Room Assignment Results & Audit Results

AS&SM completed the Fall 2025 Post-Round 1.5 Audits / Clean Up and University Lecture Room Assignment Process (Optimizing). In the assignment process, AS&SM assigned 1,400 sections to lecture rooms. There were 11 sections that were not assigned rooms. A designated college representative will be in touch about next steps for these classes. Department staff and chairs should: 

During Round 2, Department schedulers are expected to submit all maintenance requests to add, change, or cancel sections via an OnBase Form. Round 2 will be open from April 1-4, 2025. By 5:00 pm on April 4, all OnBase Forms need to, at minimum, be at the college approver step to be implemented before publication on April 15. All other OnBase Forms will be processed as time permits.

In the University Lecture Room Assignment Process (Optimizing) page, please also thoroughly review the information including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). As needed in the coming weeks, the FAQs may be updated based on new types of questions received by AS&SM.

Some reminders on how to address questions or concerns:

    • Instructors that have any accommodation needs must submit a registration form to the Employment Accommodations Resource Center (EARC). The EARC will work directly with AS&SM to assign classes to rooms. 
    • Instructors and department staff should share feedback about room assignments with their department chairs. 
    • Department chairs should discuss feedback with their Academic Associate Deans.

In the last year and half, we engaged with the Academic Strategic Space, Scheduling, & Enrollment Team (ASSSET) as well as college and department leaders and staff to discuss best practices to implement the new lecture room assignment process. 

Thank you for your support and engagement in this big change for our division.

Celebrating Staff Achievement: Honoring our first cohort of the ABSO Certificate Program

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Celebrating Staff Achievement: Honoring our first cohort of the ABSO Certificate Program

On March 19, 2025, in a heartfelt ceremony, we proudly recognized five exceptional staff members who completed the foundational track of the ABSO Certificate Program, Pathway to Employee Excellence. Launched in Fall 2023, this professional development initiative aims to refresh, strengthen, and teach new skills to staff employees within Academic Affairs.

Since its inception, the program has offered three comprehensive courses focusing on basic personnel management, basic budget and financial management, and event planning. With approximately 100 Academic Affairs staff participating in at least one course, these five individuals demonstrated remarkable persistence by completing all three courses, which included assignments and quizzes.

Congratulations to:

  • Nima Abrishamkar, Senior Analyst, Programs and Operations, Applied Data Science
  • Sarah Kam, Senior College Resource Analyst, COSS Dean’s Office
  • Kristina Luna, Administrative Services Specialist, School of Information
  • Lydie Rashel, Administrative Analyst, Mechanical Engineering
  • Mahasti Tayebi, Administrative Support Coordinator, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

During the ceremony, Provost Vincent Del Casino and AVP Sami Monsur presented certificates of completion, joined by colleagues, directors, and deans who came to celebrate and support their staff’s professional growth. The honorees can proudly showcase their ABSO training badge in their professional portfolios, highlighting their achievements and skills.

Honoree Highlights:

“I love communicating and being in touch with students…I love the training.” — Nima Abrishamkar
“I’m grateful for this training… it gave me exposure to how the university works.” — Sarah Kam
“I love my job. I grow and learn every day… this training was wonderful.” — Mahasti Tayebi
“The better I am, the better our faculty and students can focus on their work.” — Lydie Rashel
“I’ve learned in each module… it’s necessary to stay fresh.” — Kristina Luna

Leadership Reflections:

AVP Monsur encouraged participants to see this as a stepping stone: “These trainings show that the campus is open to you — even beyond our division — as growth opportunities arise.” The program seeks to empower employees through knowledge. 

Provost Del Casino applauded the dedication shown: “This is above and beyond your day-to-day work. It’s inspiring to see people invest in each other and build community. Congratulations to everyone!”

What’s Next?

We’re excited to announce new courses in the exploratory track this summer: Fundamentals of Enrollment Management and Intro to Change Management (ADKAR Method). We’re also offering Introduction to Courses & Class Scheduling as part of the foundational track. Stay tuned for more details!

Again, congratulations to our first cohort for their dedication and achievement. We look forward to seeing more staff continue to grow and thrive through this impactful program.

Acad Sched & Space Mgt (AS&SM): Summer 2025 Published & Winter/Spring 2026 Survey

Summer 2025

The Summer 2025 class schedule published today, March 18, 2025. Continuing students will begin registration in three weeks on April 9. This early publication of the Summer 2025 class schedule is important to support our student’s planning to make progress in their programs as supported by the undergraduate and graduate advising communities.

Winter/Spring 2026 Survey

AS&SM is preparing for the next class schedule production cycle for Winter/Spring 2026. We have prepared a brief Winter/Spring 2026 Class Schedule Production Timeline Survey that we hope you will complete no later than Friday, March 28, 2025.

Acad Sched & Space Mgt (AS&SM): *Correction* Fall 2025 Round 1.5 Production Ends & Summer 2025 Publishes in One Weeks

Summer 2025

The Summer 2025 class schedule publishes on March 18, 2025, which is in one week, and continuing students will begin registration three weeks later on April 9. This early publication of the Summer 2025 class schedule is important to support our student’s planning to make progress in their programs as supported by the undergraduate and graduate advising communities.

Fall 2025

Tomorrow, March 12, Round 1.5 of the Fall 2025 class schedule production concludes. On January 28, Claudia Quinonez in AS&SM distributed various reports to college schedulers to identify classes with inconsistent data that need corrections. Examples of inconsistent data include classes with missing components, missing rooms or missing meeting patterns, classes scheduled incorrectly during prime-time or scheduled outside of their managed spaces, etc. If you had no reports, thank you for being extraordinarily detail-oriented!

After Round 1.5 if AS&SM needs to delete any remaining inconsistent data, the impact will be that these classes will not be optimized into small and medium University Lecture Rooms, as needed. These classes may be re-added during Round 2, which is scheduled from April 1-4. 

Fall 2025 class schedule data must reflect the expected reality by the end of Round 1.5. This includes that:

  • Enrollment capacities must match actual enrollment to be assigned the right sized rooms.
  • Instructors must be assigned to allow back-to-back classes to be assigned in the same classrooms.

Instructors and department staff should share feedback about optimization with their department chairs. Department chairs should discuss feedback with their Academic Associate Deans or Directors of Resources & Operations, as designated by college.

Updated University Lecture Rooms (ULR) Event Form Requirements

As of September 2024, AS&SM updated the University Lecture Rooms (ULR) Event Form to require a Vice President or College Dean (or their designee) signature for events involving off-campus guests. 

DocuSign Instructions

When routing the DocuSign envelope, update Recipient #3 to the Vice President or College Dean (or their designee) (see the example). If this information is not updated while selecting “Yes” for off-campus guests on the form, it may cause routing issues. If you fail to update Recipient #3, your DocuSign will NOT route for approval to AS&SM.

Off-Campus Guests

A couple of reminders for events including off-campus guests: 

The change aligns with the system-wide and campus Time, Place, & Manner Policies. Going forward, all ULR event requests that include one or more off-campus guests will require a signature from the  Vice President or College Dean (or their designee). We last shared this information at the September 16, 2024 ASUG Meeting and November 2024 ABSO Blog post