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9:30-11:30 Will The Real St. Paul Please Stand Up?
2:00-2:00 African Figurative Art
12:00-2:00 U.S. Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future
2:30-4:30 The Communist Party That Won the Cold War
2:30-4:30 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2:30-4:30 Modern Scottish Poetry
9:30-11:30 Experiencing Romania
9:30-11:30 How to Talk About the Art You Like (and Why)
10:30-12:30 A Broken Hallelujah
12:00-2:00 Famous Court-Martial Cases
12:00-2:00 Beyond Flossing
12:00-2:00 Japan’s Two Lost Decades
2:30-4:30 A Short History of Modern Greece
2:30-4:30 Wikipedia
9:30-11:30 Homer’s Odyssey
9:30-11:30 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9:30-11:30 The Three Greatest Short Stories
10:00-12:00 “I Could Have Done That Painting”
10:30-12:30 Human Sexuality: Finding The Doorbell
12:00-2:00 The Winter Night Sky and You
12:00-2:00 Exploring the Explorers
12:00-2:00 For Those Who Avoided Econ 101
1:00-4:00 From “Blackboard Jungle” To “The Class”
2:30-4:30 Investing Basics In Difficult Times
2:30-4:30 Blink: The Psychology of Quick Decisions
2:30-4:30 Community-Building Through Design
9:30-11:30 Who Is Jesus?
9:30-11:30 Travel Writing
9:30-11:30 Purcell at 350
9:30-11:30 Americas Before 1941
10:30-12:30 Ready To Go To The DSO
12:00-2:00 The Black Athlete in American Culture
12:00-2:00 The 100 Most Influential People
2:30-4:30 Faithbuilding 101
2:30-4:30 All Around the (Coal) Boiler
2:30-4:30 Sherlock Holmes
9:00-12:00 Hollywood Director Nicholas Ray (1911-1974)
9:30-11:30 Nativism In a Nation of Immigrants
9:30-11:30 The Poetry Exchange
9:30-11:30 The Spiritual Significance of UFO’s
10:00-12:00 Humanitarian Wars
Your course application must be received by the due date to be included in the enrollment process. If the number of enrollment requests does not exceed the quota allowed for the course, all applicants are enrolled. If there are too few, the course is cancelled.
If there are too many persons for a course, there is a lottery. Each member has an EPH, a priority number that guides the lottery. Its initial value is 50 when a person becomes a member. EPH is decreased for a member enrolled by lottery and increased for a member not enrolled. This increases your chance of winning a lottery enrollment if you lost out previously.
This process takes place for applications for a course as a first choice. Applications are sorted into priority order by decreasing EPH, then decreasing random number. Those with the highest priority are enrolled first. For example, 5 members apply for a course with a quota of 3 places. The applicants might be
Name EPH Random number
Alice 51 46738
Bob 50 88377
Dave 50 54668
Chuck 50 32566
Esther 46 91006
There are three places, so the first three items in the list are enrolled. Alice is enrolled. Esther is not. Bob, Chuck, and Dave compete for the 2 remaining spots by random ordering. Bob and Dave win and are enrolled.
Then all members enrolled have their EPH decreased by 4. Those not enrolled have EPH increased by 1. After the enrollment the EPH scores become
Name EPH
Alice 47
Bob 46
Chuck 51
Dave 46
Esther 47
After the lottery, ILEAD staff may change enrollment status and adjust EPH scores manually using a data entry screen, to accommodate, for example, a situation where two people travel together but only one is accepted. There is no effect on EPH unless the course is oversubscribed.
Next is a process for open courses applied for as a second, third, or fourth choice. If there is room, applicants are enrolled. No applicant is enrolled in more than the total number of classes they asked for.
If there are more applicants than opening, applications are sorted into order by decreasing EPH, increasing choice number, and decreasing random number. For example
Name EPH Choice Random number
Alice 51 2 43748
Bob 50 2 88677
Dave 50 3 44368
Chuck 50 3 22565
Esther 46 2 81606
Thus an applicant prefering a certain course more than another has a slightly better chance to enroll. At each successful lottery enrollment, the EPH is reduced by 4.
If an applicant is enrolled in fewer courses than applied for, the unfilled applications are automatically placed on wait lists for those full classes, in the event an enrolled member withdraws.
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