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Annual Timeline (2024-2025)

October	10/4: Call for Courses emailed to all course sponsoring departments and colleges
November	11/22: Call for Courses due
December	Summer Session in communication with Departments and Colleges Managers to develop and finalize curriculum 12/6: Summer 2025 courses determined, listed at summer.ucsc.edu, and sent campus wide! 12/16: Departments and Colleges - add summer courses to their websites, planning process, and other documents
January	Promote courses in winter classes and advising meetings! 1/5:Deadline for Department/College to submit New Summer Courses and Summer Course Revisions in Curriculum Approval and Tracking (CAT) 1/15: Deadline for Division to submit New Summer Courses and Summer Course Revisions to CCI 1/27: Class Notes Prerequisites & Restrictions information updated for course sponsoring department managers to approve 1/31: GSI packets due via CARS online form for CCI review Compliance information due for any new lecturers
February	2/3: Scheduling form sent to all instructors 2/10: Scheduling form due from summer instructors
March	AHR sends Faculty and Lecturer appointment letters Faculty are attached to courses in AIS after accepting appointment letters Mandatory discussion sections scheduled by Summer Session Office 3/4: Departments, Colleges, and Summer Faculty asked to review schedule 3/15: Summer term active in Schedule of Classes New courses must have CCI approval to be offered
April	AHR sends GSI appointment letters as CCI approves GSI are attached to courses in AIS as CCI approves Promote courses in spring classes and advising meetings! 4/1: Registration opens for summer-only visiting , incoming Summer Edge, and high school students to be able to take summer classes.
May	5/1: Enrollment opens for continuing UC Santa Cruz students (who took classes in the Spring) at 9 a.m. 5/2: Enrollment opens for visiting summer-only and incoming students 5/12: Teaching Assistant allocation estimates sent. Departments and College Managers can add their TAs after they get their estimate. The TA estimate is derived from the sum of current enrollments divided by 44. Departments use estimates to begin considering which classes to place TAships, and who might fill them. 5/15: Initial low enrollment red flag email sent to departments and course instructors whose classes are below 8+ students needed in upper division course; 12+ in lower division Textbooks: Course readers for Session 1 to Copy Center due Orders for Session 1 textbooks to Bay Tree Campus Store
June	6/3: TA allocations calculated and sent to academic units. Department and College Managers may submit TA and Reader Appointments Session 1, 8wk, and 10wk allocations: to account for additional enrollments that take place between June 3 and June 23, the final allocation is 5% over the June 3 actual enrollment number. Session 2 allocations will be recalculated again on July 1 to address any additional enrollments; any additional TAs may be used in session 2 only. 6/6: TA appointment and Reader requests due AHR sends TA appointment letters AHR sends Reader appointment letters GSIs - For any AI advancing to become TF or TF graduating to become Lecturers, new title information must be emailed to AHR at ue-ahr@ucsc.edu Summer will schedule optional discussion sections with TAs and instructors 6/6 Enrollment census for Session 1, 8wk, and 10wk course cancellation 8+ students needed in upper division course; 12+ in lower division Course cancellations made - Summer Session contacts faculty, departments, and students to support them in changing plans 17 days before the start of instruction 6/23: Start of Summer Session 1, 8wk, and 10wk Instruction Textbooks: Visit ucsc.textbookx.com and log in with your CruzID. Click on your summer course and add the materials you would like students to have for class.
July	7/1: Session 2 TAship allocations recalculated to address any additional enrollments To account for any additional enrollments added from June 3 - July 1. Summer Session will contact affected departments directly to alert them to additional allocations. 7/4: Fourth of July - no instruction, administrative holiday 7/11: Enrollment census for Session 2 course cancellation and TA allocation 8+ students needed in upper division course; 12+ in lower division Course cancellations made - Summer Session contacts faculty, departments, and students to support them in changing plans 17 days before the start of instruction 7/28: Start of Summer Session 2 Instruction 7/31: Grades due for Session 1 courses
August	8/21: Grades due for 8-Week courses 8/29: End of Summer Quarter
September	9/4: Grades due for Session 2 and 10-Week courses, independent studies, and field studies