Students will have to wait a while longer ­– until April 8 – to register for “Extended Spring” classes, officials said this week. And faculty won’t know their summer assignments for sure, even then.

But, students won’t be able to view the 400 sections of classes to be offered in the new session until about March 26 when they will be posted online, Senior Vice President Robert Bell said in an interview Tuesday.

Even though registration is set to begin April 8,  the final class schedule can still undergo changes. “There very likely may be changes that occur in the sections between when they are posted to the web and when they are released for registration,” said Interim Manager of Enrollment, Planning and Research David Colley. “During any schedule building process, there are small changes that occur even into registration. It is preliminary in that it is subject to change.”

Through all of the confusion, teachers don’t know yet what they will be getting paid during “Extended Spring.”

“I need to make sure with [Human Resources] exactly how they are going to be paid,” said Bell. “But they will not be under-paid and will definitely be paid.”

Bell also said that there had been some delay with releasing the list of classes, but that had been an attempt to make sure there was less confusion.

“There are enough terms out there to confuse people [already],” said Bell. “I didn’t want to get anything out there too fast and then have to take it off the web and make it even more confusing.”

Television Production Instructor Barbara Naylor said that it was hectic for teachers not knowing if they would or wouldn’t be teaching classes. “It’s crazy not knowing if [I] will have my class for sure or not,” said Naylor. “It seems like they should have had this finished a lot sooner.”

Dean of Academic Affairs Ofelia Arellano didn’t think the students would have a hard time getting the classes they wanted for their schedules. “Students have an idea of what [classes] they need,” said Arellano.

Bell also said he actually “never bought into a summer term.” He explained that he believed the use of an “Extended Spring” would allow students access to transfer to UC’s and CSU’s.

Colley said that the delay to releasing the preliminary list of classes had also been due to the reshaping of “Summer One” into “Extended Spring.”

“Because students would need to have the “summer one” classes post as Spring,” said Colley. “We had to hand-build those sections back into the “old” legacy Santa Rosa system.

Colley also explained that summer will be the first term in the new Lancerpoint (Banner) system.

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