CURRICULUM CHANGE PROCEDURES & PROPOSER'S RESPONSIBILITIES

(Revised Monday, December 4, 2000)

1. Discuss the idea. Include your Department Chair and any others who will be affected. If the proposal is at all complex or controversial, include your representative on the Curriculum Committee, the Committee's Chair, and possibly the Dean. This is a highly interactive process!
   
   
2. Get a PROPOSAL NUMBER (like COM989-12) from the Assoc. Dean. Get a paper or computer copy of the APC form from the Department Assistant. Write up the proposal. Get required signatures from other departments which may be affected. Fill out Resource Statement and get signatures to indicate what additional resources will be required.
   
   
3. Working with the Department Chair, secure the department's vote of approval.
   
   
4. If approved, give 7 copies of the approved proposal to the Assoc. Dean. He/she will distribute them to the Curriculum Committee and the Dean. The Chair of the committee will notify all School faculty of a proposal. The proposer should provide a very brief description of the proposal and its goals, to be distributed to all faculty. The Chair of the committee will call a meeting to discuss the proposal. You may be present, and it is a good idea for you to attend.
   
   
5. The committee will approve, disapprove, or recommend changes. (Changes are most likely.) Make the changes and follow the committee's request for review (Chair only or whole committee).
   
   
6. When approved, ask the Assoc. Dean to give the proposal to the Dean. (All stages 0£ approval go through the Assoc. Dean for tracking purposes.)
   
   
7. The Dean will approve, disapprove, or recommend changes. Working through the Assoc. Dean, negotiate an acceptable proposal with the Dean and the committee.
   
   
8. When both the Dean and the Curriculum Committee have approved the proposal, the committee will present it to the school for either voice or paper vote. The Chair of the committee does this, working with the Assoc. Dean. Provide the Assoc. Dean with three copies of the approved proposal. To pass, a majority of those voting, which must also equal at least one third of all eligible voters, must vote in favor of the proposal.
   
   
9. The school votes. If approved, secure the signatures and provide the Assoc. Dean with 18 copies-17 copies on white paper, back-to-back, 3-hole punched, stapled. (15 go to APC; 1 to Assoc Dean, 1 to Curriculum Committee Chair.) Provide an original on colored paper, also back-to-back, 3-hole punched, stapled. Use these colors: Report of Action-white; New course-yellow; New Program-green; Revised course-pink; Revised Program-blue.
   
   
10. The Assoc. Dean sends the copies to Provost, who notifies the APC curriculum subcommittee.
    
    
11. The subcommittee acts and brings the proposal to the full APC. The proposer may wish to attend this meeting and/ or the full APC meeting.
    
    
12. The APC acts by making a recommendation to the Provost and the President. Program changes and some other changes go to the State for approval after the President approves them. That is done by Institutional Research.