Updating a course description to explicitly mention a particular experience, assignment, or component helps with sustainment. It helps students know what to expect. It cements the departmental commitment to the experience no matter which instructor takes charge, and sets clear and transparent expectations for any potential sessional or replacement instructor. A calendar commitment allows staff to promote a course based on its attractive career or experiential elements, whereas promotion is not possible if the element is not reliably a part of the course.

Departments can generate a course-specific operating budget by adding a course fee to a particular course, to be paid upon registration. Proposed fees are scrutinized and approved by the University Fees Committee. Associating a course fee with a certain course component (lab fees, field costs, etc.) is common practice across the university, where appropriate.

Departments can generate a program-specific operating budget by adding an annual fee for all students in a particular degree program, to be paid upon registration. Again, proposed fees are scrutinized and approved by the University Fees Committee. This can help to generate an operating budget for non-course based program services, components or experiences in the program.