Graduate Curriculum Development

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Graduate Curriculum Development

• Filiz Ozel
• Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Academic
  Programs
• Graduate College

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Graduate Academic Programs Office at the Graduate
College assists units with

• Curriculum Development
• Curriculum design
• The review of draft proposals
• The steps necessary for approval of curriculum
  proposals
• Questions re graduate policy and procedures
• Academic Program reviews

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• The approval path for curriculum proposals
  depends on the type of program that is being
  proposed.
• http//www.asu.edu/provost/curriculum/
• http//www.asu.edu/graduate/gapd/

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Summary of changes to the curriculum approval
process

• Pre-approval by the new University Curriculum and
  Planning Committee (UCPC) this replaces the
  filing of the indication of support (IoS) form.
• Arizona Board of Regents has established a new
  Academic Affairs Committee (AAC). This committee
  will annually review the strategic plans for
  curriculum development submitted by each of the
  three universities.

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Pre-approval process

• Pre-approval process by the University Curriculum
  and Planning Committee (UCPC) Committee headed by
  Senior Vice President for Academic Programs David
  Young.
• Staff support provided by Julie Ramsden

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Pre-approval process

• Submit Curriculum Development form (CDF) through
  your college deans office.
• Only authorized people in the deans offices can
  submit CDF forms to the curriculumplanning_at_asu.edu
  account which is the required mode of submission
  for CDF forms.
• CDF forms for new concentrations and certificates
  are reviewed on a rolling basis,
• There are two deadlines each semester for
  submission of CDF forms to the UCPC committee for
  new degrees

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ABOR, Academic Affairs Committee (AAC)

• This committee will review and approve the
  strategic plans submitted by each of the three
  universities annually. Curricular items that
  receive the approval of the AAC committee will
  then move forward through the internal approval
  processes in each university, but will not go to
  ABOR.
• Programs with fees and those programs that
  require new state money will still go to the
  Board of Regents for approval

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Summary of ASU approval process for graduate
items following the pre-approval process

• Unit and college curriculum committees
• Deans letter recommending the proposed program
  for approval
• University Graduate Council (university wide)
• Curriculum and Academic Programs Committees
  (Tempe/Downtown, West, Polytechnic)
• Academic Senates
• The Provosts approval
• ABOR (for items that have fees and/or require new
  state money)

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University Graduate Council (UGC)

• An advisory body comprised of faculty from
  colleges at all campuses of the university was
  established this summer, replacing multiple
  campus graduate councils.
• Current members of the UGC
• Maria Allison (chair),
• Laurel Anderson
• Nancy CookeRodolfo DiazMarie GriffinMark
  HendersonStephen LawtonBarbara McCabeTim
  RichardsWilhelmina SavenyeVictoria
  ThompsonAnne Tsui
• Graduate student member Arati Sridharan

Ex-officio members Filiz Ozel Sarah
Lindquist Michael Dickson Denise Campbell
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For existing programs

• Proposals that require Graduate College approval
  are
• Changes to existing graduate programs
• Total credit hr. req., core course changes,
  comprehensive exam changes, culminating
  experience changes, etc.
• Concurrent degree programs (both degrees at ASU)
• Bachelors/Masters accelerated programs
  (typically both in the same discipline)
• Master in Passing for doctoral degrees (for 84 cr
  hr post bachelors doctoral programs)
• Dual degree programs with institutions with which
  ASU has an institutional agreement

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Recent graduate policy changes

• Doctoral programs are no longer required to
  include at least 24 cr hrs of a combination of
  research (792) and dissertation (799) in student
  programs of study.
• Instead, 12 cr hrs and only 12 credit hours of
  dissertation (799) registration is required. The
  rest of the hours can be any combination of
  research and coursework. This does not change the
  total 84 cr hr minimum cr hour requirement.

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Recent graduate policy changes

• COMMITTEE MEMBER DEFENSE PARTICIPATION PROCEDURES
• All committee members must be present at the
  defense, and a minimum of 50 of the students
  official committee must be physically present
  with the student at the defense. If at least 50
  of the committee cannot be physically present,
  the defense must be rescheduled.
• The chair (or one co-chair) of the committee must
  be physically present at the defense. If this is
  not possible, the defense must be rescheduled.
• A committee member who cannot be physically
  present at the defense may participate in the
  defense in one of several ways. These options
  are listed in the preferred order
• The absent committee member videoconferences into
  the defense location
• The absent committee member teleconferences into
  the defense location
• By providing a substitute to be physically
  present (approved by the committee chair and the
  head of the academic unit) for the defense only.

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Contact information in the Graduate Academic
Programs Office, Graduate College

• Dr. Filiz Ozel, Associate Vice Provost for
  Graduate Academic Programs, ozel_at_asu.edu, 5-5999
• Denise Campbell, Program Manager for Graduate
  Academic Programs, denise.campbell_at_asu.edu,
• 5-7818
• Amanda Morales-Calderon, Administrative
  Associate, amanda.morales-calderon_at_asu.edu,
• 5-5999

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• Questions?