Any class with an enrollment of fewer than eighteen students on the opening day of each semester or session is subject to cancellation. The decision to cancel a class is made by Randal Lawson, Vice President of Academic Affairs, in consultation with the department chair. Adjunct faculty are paid a minimum of two weeks pay (one week pay in summer or winter sessions) for a class that is canceled after the class has met.

A full-time faculty member whose class is canceled must be reassigned to another section; this can result in their replacing an adjunct faculty member. When the canceled class was to be taught by an adjunct faculty member or as an overload or summer assignment of a full-time faculty member no faculty member is displaced.