Reminder: Undergraduate Textbook Ordering Deadline for Spring 2020

To: Departmental Executive Officers
From: Helena Dettmer, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Curriculum and the Humanities
RE: Reminder: Undergraduate Textbook Ordering Deadline for Spring 2020

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Please remind instructors that all textbooks must be ordered for the next semester before Early Registration begins in order for UI to be in compliance with the HEO Act.

  • Early Registration for Spring 2020 begins on November 11, 2019.
  • Early ordering saves students money—substantial amounts—and this is the central reason that the HEO Act regarding textbooks was enacted. 

An exception to the above deadline will be made in the following circumstances:

  • If an instructor has not yet been hired
  • If the instructor has not yet been assigned to a course
  • If the course is new and still under development
  • If the textbook is new and still under development 

If an exception has been made, please add this information to the Offerings Planning so that the course is removed from the Missing Textbook Report. (To view this report, visit MAUI>Reports>Registrar>Courses Missing Textbooks.)

Courses with the 0IND (Independent Study) identifier are also excluded from the Missing Textbook report.

Thank you for helping our students by reminding all instructors that books must be ordered before Early Registration begins.