Program scheduling of interrelated programs in a university faculty when there might be strategic behavior

The issue addressed in This work deals with finding course schedules for four different departments simultaneously that meet the requirements of the faculty in two ways: 1) they must offer the required courses to meet the respective program mandates and they must offer courses in a way that allows the programs to be accessible to students at various stages of meeting their degree requirements, and, 2) they must satisfy the faculty about teaching the courses at the assigned times. In the case of satisfying faculty about their assigned times, it is possible to develop a set of prices that prevent faculty members from acting strategically to improve their time slot allocation. This is tested in the context of scheduling four interrelated programs in the Faculty of Environmental studies at the University of Waterloo.