Board of Trustees
Approved: November 16, 2001
Section III: Academic Affairs
Subsection: D. Academic Programs and Plans
- The Board will receive an annual report of curricular and
administrative
changes which includes the following:
- Addition of a new organized set of courses within
a major, e.g., option, concentration, specialization, or
sequence
to an existing degree program;
- Addition of an externally funded research or
public service activity labeled as a center or institute
because
of grant requirements;
- Addition of a new minor;
- Change in a degree title, e.g., the name of
a discipline or major without changes in objectives or
content;
- Change in the name of an administrative (including
departments), research, or public service unit;
- Creation of a certificate program in a field
in which there is a previously approved degree program;
- Creation of a joint degree program from two
previously approved programs;
- Reclassification (change of CIP) of a program
resulting from incremental changes or consolidation of two
or more
degree programs into a single program; and,
- Â鶹´«Ã½ in degree designation at the same level.
- The Board will receive an agenda report for the following
curricular
and administrative changes:
- Creation of a new unit that does not have an
instructional, research, or public service mission
including new
units that might be named department, division, center, or
institute;
- Elimination of an existing degree program;
- Reorganization, restructuring, consolidation,
elimination, and other changes of existing administrative
(including
departments), research, or public service units that does
not result
in an increase in subunits;
- Creation of a new, formally organized research
or public service unit that has a temporary mission of up
to five
years;
- Creation of a certificate program in a field
or at a level in which there is not a previously approved
degree
program at that level or higher level;
- Creation of a new program that results from
the reorganization or restructuring of the curricular
elements of
an existing program that have over time evolved into
separate and
distinct programs; and,
- Offer of an existing degree program off-campus
in Region #4.
- The Board must approve an agenda resolution for the
following curricular
and administrative changes:
- Creation of a degree program in a new field
or at a new level (on-campus and off-campus);
- Creation of new units of instruction, research,
or public service that involve a change or expansion in
mission
including programs, departments, colleges, centers or
institutes,
or other formally organized units; and,
- Creation of a new campus.
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