10700. Undergraduate Council Update Delete



Reports through VP Academic Administration

Membership:   

Vice president for Academic Administration, chair, vice president for Enrollment Management, associate vice president for Academic Administration, school deans/ department chairs, director of Libraries, director of Records and Advisement, chair of General Education Committee, two students appointed by the University Senate for one-year, non-renewable terms

  

AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY:

Authority to Act: 

  1. To serve as liaison between the departments and the vice president for Academic Administration 
  2. To publish a catalog describing undergraduate programs, including financial information.
  3. To approve policies for entrance and graduation requirements, university-wide general education requirements, honors programs, and the conduct of special programs such as lecture series, adult education, workshops, study tours, and continuing education. University Senate has right of review of such actions.
  4. To serve as the university curriculum committee for undergraduate programs with the authority to recommend the following:
    1. Curriculum changes originated by the departments, i.e., changes in major and minor study programs, cognate and general education requirements for specific degrees. 
    2. Recommendations from the General Education Committee.
    3. Changes in the honors program. 
    4. Study tours.
    5. Proposals for specific study programs, i.e., workshops, continuing education. 
    6. Continuing approval of lecture series and other special study programs offered on a regularly recurring schedule. The committee will invite other committee chairmen whose programs are under study to participate in the discussion.

(The University Senate has right of review of all actions pertaining to all curricular matters except for editorial and non-substantive changes.)

Recommendations to be made through the vice president for Academic Administration:

         To recommend the addition of new study programs and the termination of unneeded programs.