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New Program Development

February 2008 Guidelines Full Guidelines (including appendices) Guidelines (without appendices) Appendix A — Interdepartmental Program Charters and Faculty By-Laws Appendix B — Undergraduate Program Proposal Appendix C — Graduate Program Proposal Appendix D — CPEC Summary Appendix E — Departmental Establishment Proposal Appendix F — Undergraduate Concentrations, Minors... Appendix G — Administrative Oversight Charge Approval Process Maps The steps proposed academic programs, academic units, and major research units require for formal approval. [More]

Guidelines for the Establishment and Disestablishment of Academic Programs and Departments

Updated in February 2008, this document defines departments and programs of study and the relationships among these entities; it establishes criteria and procedures for the establishment and disestablishment of departments and programs of studies; and it specifies mechanisms to insure the stability and continuity of established programs.

A program of studies is a set of course offerings and a set of requirements leading to an undergraduate or graduate degree or certificate.  The curriculum of all programs of studies is supervised by a program faculty.  The program faculty chair reports administratively to a department chair or academic dean.

In contrast, a department is the principal administrative unit to which ladder faculty and lecturers with security of employment (SoE) are formally appointed.  Departments hold budgeted faculty provisions, also known as budgeted FTE.  Ladder faculty members and SoE lecturers have Bylaw 55 rights.  Its faculty comprise a committee of the UC Santa Cruz divisional senate.