Academic Planning

The Academic Planning Task Force met today. That group has made a lot of progress in creating a system that is agile and responsive, yet deliberative and focused on quality. The task force is also accomplishing goals of:

1. Reallocating tasks so that SAPC is less overwhelmed and Senate Curriculum Committee has more responsibilities.

2. Building in more rigorous academic reviews of programs, including assessment data on student outcomes

3. Ensuring faculty control of the curriculum

A next step after developing this policy will be to develop a policy for launching programs. We need an agreed-upon process and timeline, so that we know when new programs will launch based on the amount of time it takes Marketing and Enrollment to do the tasks they need to do. In the past, we have launched programs before Enrollment was ready, and then there were problems.

This coordinated approach will help ensure that faculty's hard workcreating the program will be reciprocated when the program launches.