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Undergraduate academic changes (PDF, flow chart)

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Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UT System (EVCAA)

Description

Undergraduate, college-level academic changes are changes to a college’s degree requirements or academic policy. They affect a student’s pursuit of an existing degree, major, concentration/track/option, academic honor, certificate, etc. They may or may not affect students and faculty members in other colleges. This category does not include changes that must be reported to or approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). These are some examples:

• Changing the requirements of an existing degree program (major) or degree. Changes range from adding a new subject to the degree program to deleting one course from a list of many courses that will fulfill a three-hour requirement.
• Changing the requirements to enter, remain in, or graduate from a college or any major of the college
• Adding, deleting, or changing restrictions on electives
• Adding, deleting, or changing a concentration or an option (including changing its name)
• Adding, deleting, or changing an honors program (including changing its name)
• Establishing, changing, or dropping requirements for admission to a major or to the college

Process

a.	Department
b.	College
c.	Office of the General Faculty/Faculty Council (OGF)
d.	Committee on Undergraduate Degree Program Review (CUDPR membership)
d1.	Undergraduate Studies Advisory Council (UGSAC membership)
d2.	CUDPR
e.	OGF
f.	Faculty Council (FC)
g.	Provost (acting on behalf of the president)
h.	Official Publications
i.	Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UT System (EVCAA)
j.	Provost
k.	OGF