SCHOOL/COLLEGE/DEPARTMENT LEVEL

• Initiating an off-campus (additional) site (site-based/classroom group instruction) at which:
  • Student can obtain 50% or more credits toward program (P1)
  • Student can obtain 25-49% of credit (P2)
  • Student can obtain 24% or less (not applicable)
  • Adding significantly different degree programs (approved for the institution) at a currently approved off-campus site (P2)
• Initiating distance learning/technology-based group or individual instruction courses and programs:
  • Offering 50% or more of program (Subsequent programs do not need reporting unless they are significant departures from initially approved program(s)) (P1)
  • Offering 25-49% (P2)
  • Offering 24% or less (not applicable)
  • Adding significantly different degree programs (approved for the institution) from previously reported programs offered through distance learning (P2)
• Initiating significant changes in existing technology-based delivery systems in distance learning (off-campus programs) (P2)

PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING (see SACS-COC Substantive Change policy for more detail)

P1: Procedure One – review of substantive changes requiring notification and approval prior to implementation

P2: Procedure Two – review of substantive changes requiring only notification prior to implementation

P3: Procedure Three – review and approval of consolidations/mergers

DEFINITIONS

Distance Learning: the instructor and student are geographically separated.