Senate Committee on Educational Policy

Proposals: Submissions, Forms and Status

Academic Year 2011-12

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Proposal Form Downloads

Proposal Form with instructions

• In cases when a proposal impacts resources of other units (e.g. dependence on courses offered by other departments, library resources, etc.), the Educational Policy Committee requires written confirmation from the impacted unit(s) that the necessary resources have been committed for this purpose. It is important that sponsors of such proposals obtain the required written agreement(s) in advance of submitting their proposal and include those documents in their packet to avoid delays in review of their proposals.
• Please review important information regarding proposals for re-organization (formation, termination, separation, transfer, merger, change in status, or renaming) of units.
• Approval of a proposal by the Senate does not indicate a commitment by the university to provide the necessary resources to offer the proposed courses, curricula, degrees, etc. indefinitely.

Proposals that have gone through the appropriate channels and have been approved by the relevant committees and/or authorities at the unit and college levels will be sent to the Provost's Office. If necessary, the Provost's Office will forward a proposal to the Senate Committee on Educational Policy for consideration and recommendation to the UIUC Senate. Please see the following links for additional information.


• Committee Charge and Responsibilities
• Approval Process for Program and Curricular Changes

Proposals must be submitted in the established format. Please visit the Levels of Governance for Program and Curricular Changes matrix for more information. Please note that proposals regarding graduate and undergraduate minors must follow special formats (see Information Related to Minors below).


• Required Form for Presentation of Proposals to Senate Committee on Educational Policy (Blank Word File WITH Instructions)
• Standard Minor Approval Form scroll to bottom of page
• Standard Graduate Minor Approval Form

Information Related to Programs, Degrees or Units

• Degree Definitions
• IBHE Academic Programs Review and Approval
• Guidelines for Multi-Institutional Graduate Degrees in Collaboration with a Foreign Institution
• Hearings on the Termination, Separation, Transfer or Merger of Units

Information Related to Courses and Programs

• Instructions for the Submission of New and Revised Course Proposals - - including forms
• Criteria and Procedures for Review of Proposals for New and Revised Graduate Degree Programs and Options under Existing Degrees
• Criteria and Procedures for Review of Proposed New and Revised Courses that Carry Graduate Credit

Information Related to Minors

• Guidelines for Campus-wide Undergraduate Minors
• Graduate Minors

Information Related to Concentrations

• Guidelines for Establishing Graduate Concentration
• Guidelines for Undergraduate Concentration Guidelines are established by individual colleges.
  

Additional Information

• Additional Related Links

Status of Proposals Received:
Please note that the Senate Committee on Educational Policy is only one of the bodies that may review a proposal. If approved by the Committee, a proposal is forwarded to the full Senate for a vote. Additional approvals by the Board of Trustees and the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) may be necessary for some proposals.

The Provost's Office will inform the sponsors in writing when a proposal has received all necessary approvals and may be implemented. Further, note that some curricular and degree changes may require a waiting period after final approval before they may be implemented. The "Status" reports listed below are not official.

No.	Proposal ID*	Date Received in Senate Office	Proposal Sponsor / Title	Committee Action**	Senate Action
1	EP.11.04	9/22/2010	Proposal from the Graduate College to revise the policy regarding how repeated courses are factoring into graduate GPA's	Withdrawn by sponsor	n/a
2	EP.11.05	9/22/2010	Proposal from the Graduate College to clarify the poliey regarding how graduate GPA's are calculated	Withdrawn by sponsor	n/a
3	EP.11.33	3/16/2011	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to reorganize the Asian American Studies Program as the Department of Asian American Studies	Approved by the Committee on August 29, 2011	Approved by the Senate on September 12, 2011
4	EP.12.01	8/23/2011	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the BSLAS in Atmospheric Sciences	Approved by the Committee on September 19, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
5	EP.12.02	8/23/2011	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to change the name of the Department of Geography to the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science	Approved by the Committee on September 19, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
6	EP.12.03	8/23/2011	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to change the name of the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences in Geography to Geography and Geographic Information Science and revise portions of the major	Approved by the Committee on September 19, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
7	EP.12.04	8/23/2011	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts & Sciences in Psychology	Approved by the Committee on September 19, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
8	EP.12.05	8/23/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to establish a Master of Science in Cell and Developmental Biology	Approved by the Committee on August 29, 2011	Approved by the Senate on September 12, 2011
9	EP.12.06	8/23/2011	Proposal from the College of Fine and Applied Arts to create a Senior Art History "Distinction" Program for students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History	Approved by the Committee on September 19, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
10	EP.12.07	8/23/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College and the College of Business to establish a graduate minor in Accountancy	Approved by the Committee on September 19, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
11	EP.12.08	8/23/2011	Proposal from the College of Engineering to establish the undergraduate minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.	Approved by the Committee on August 29, 2011	Approved by the Senate on September 12, 2011
12	EP.12.09	8/23/2011	Proposal from the Council on Teacher Education and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the Social Science: History Teaching concentration	Approved by the Committee on September 26, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
13	EP.12.10	8/23/2011	Proposal from the Council on Teacher Education and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the BALAS in English: English concentration and English Teaching concentration.	Approved by the Committee on September 26, 2011	Approved by the Senate on October 3, 2011
14	EP.12.11	10/6/2011	Revisions to 2012-2013 Academic Calendar	Approved by the Committee on October 10, 2011	Approved by the Senate on November 7, 2011
15	EP.12.12	10/11/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College and the College of Education to Establish the Educational Technology for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Concentration in the Ed.M. in Educational Psychology	Under Review by the Committee
16	EP.12.13	10/11/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences to terminate the Community Studies and Outreach concentration in the PhD curriculum in Human and Community Development	Approved by the Committee on November 14, 2011	Approved by the Senate on Deceber 5, 2011
17	EP.12.14	10/11/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College and the College of Education to Terminate the eLearning Concentration in the Ed.M. in Human Resource Education	Under Review by the Committee
18	EP.12.15	10/31/2011	Proposal from the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Department of Human and Community Development to Revise the Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Concentration within the PhD Curriculum in Human and Community Development	Approved by the Committee on November 14, 2011	Approved by the Senate on December 5, 2011
19	EP.12.16	11/15/2011	Proposal from the School of Social Work to Revise the Bachelor of Social Work Degree Program.	Under Review by the Committee
20	EP.12.17	1/10/2012	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the to the BSLAS Physics Concentration	Under Review by the Committee
21	EP.12.18	1/10/2012	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the Specialized Curriculum in Physics (BS in Physics)	Under Review by the Committee
22	EP.12.19	1/11/2012	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to establish the Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts and Sciences Degree (BSLAS) in Computer Science and (LAS discipline)	Under Review by the Committee
23	EP.12.20	1/10/2012	Proposal from the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) to establish a new minor in International Development Economics	Under Review by the Committee
24	EP.12.21	1/11/2012	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise the minor in Communication	Under Review by the Committee

* Links to electronic version of proposals available only after item gets on Senate agenda.
** Proposals are received by the Senate Committee on Educational Policy after review at the unit and college levels as well as review by the Office of the Provost. Graduate proposals (except professional degree program proposals) are reviewed by the Graduate College also after review by the disciplinary college review.

Important Note: Proposals may be approved by the Committee provisionally, pending receipt of the revised version and/or additional documents or information by the Committee no later than two weeks before a Senate meeting. Proposals will not be forwarded to the Senate unless revised version and/or additional requested material is received and approved by the appropriate Subcommittee Chair. The Educational Policy Committee may pull a proposal from the Senate agenda, if necessary.