Senate Committee on Educational Policy

Proposals: Submissions, Forms and Status


Academic Year 2010-11

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Proposal Form Downloads

Proposal Form with instructions,

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Important Notice:

• 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.

General Information:

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

Proposal Forms/Formats:

Proposals must be submitted in the established format. The Senate Committee on Educational Policy will accept proposals in the IBHE Proposal format (in PDF form or Word form) ONLY for those proposals that will need IBHE approval. 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 Format for Presentation of Proposals to Senate Committee on Educational Policy (Blank Word File WITH Instructions)
• Required Check Sheet for Presentation of Proposals to Senate Committee on Educational Policy
• Course Proposal Form (Word format)
• Standard Minor Approval Form scroll to bottom of page
• Standard Graduate Minor Approval Form

Other Information:

Information Related to Programs, Degrees or Units


• Degree Definitions
• IBHE Academic Programs Review and Approval
• IBHE Proposals for Approval of New Units (form in PDF format or Word format)
• 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.10.22	11/2/2009	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to Establish an Interdisciplinary Minor in Museum Studies	Withdrawn by sponsor	Not applicable
2	EP.10.44	3/29/2010	Proposal from the Graduate College to clarify the policy regarding how graduate GPA is calculated and revise the policy regarding how repeated courses are factored into graduate GPA	Withdrawn by Sponsor - - two new proposals submitted instead (see EP.10.04 and EP.10.05)	Not applicable
3	EP.10.46	4/1/2010	Proposal from the College of FAA to Revise BFA in New Media	Approved by Committee on August 30, 2010	Approved by the Senate on December 6, 2010
4	EP.10.47	5/7/2010	Proposal from the Senate Educational Policy Committee to make changes in Final Exam Policies	Approved by the Committee on April 12, 2010	Returned to Committee for review
5	EP.10.48	5/7/2010	Proposal from the College of ACES to establish a minor in Leadership Studies	Not approved	Not applicable
6	EP.11.01	8/18/2010	Proposal from the GRAD College and the College of Media to revise the M.S. in Advertising	Approved by Committee on August 30, 2010	Approved by the Senate on October 4, 2010
7	EP.11.02	8/18/2010	Proposal from the College of LAS to establish new minors: one in Integrative Biology and Ecology as well as one in Conservation Biology	Approved by Committee on October 4, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
8	EP.11.03	8/31/2010	Proposal from the College of ACES to rename the undergraduate minor in Quantitative Methods in Natural Resource and Environmental Science as the Spatial and Quantitative Methods in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.	Approved by Committee on October 4, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
9	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	Returned to the sponsor for revisions
10	EP.11.05	9/22/2010	Proposal from the Graduate College to clarify the policy regarding how graduate GPA's are calculated	Returned to the sponsor for revisions
11	EP.11.06	9/14/2010	Proposal from the College of Engineering to establish the Customized Concentration in the B.S. in Materials Science in Engineering	Approved by Committee on October 25, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
12	EP.11.07	9/22/2010	Proposal from the College of ACES to establish a Minor in Natural Resource Conservation	Approved by Committee on October 4, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
13	EP.11.08	9/22/2010	Proposal from the College of LAS to eliminate the B.S. in Biophysics	Withdrawn by sponsor	N/A
14	EP.11.09	9/22/2010	Proposal from the College of ACES to establish the Agricultural Education Program	Approved by Committee on October 25, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
15	EP.11.10	9/22/2010	Proposal from the College of ACES to create an Agricultural Leadership and Science Education major, with the concentrations in Agricultural Science Education and Agricultural Leadership Education	Approved by Committee on October 25, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
16	EP.11.11	10/12/2010	Proposal from the Graduate College and the College of LAS to establish a Professional Science Master's concentration in the MS in Plant Biology	Approved by Committee on November 15, 2010	Approved by the Senate on December 6, 2010
17	EP.11.12	10/20/2010	Proposal from the Graduate College to establish a Graduate Minor in Gender Relations in International Development (GRID)	Approved by Committee on October 25, 2010	Approved by the Senate on November 8, 2010
18	EP.11.13	11/3/2010	Proposal from the College of Fine and Applied Arts to revise the curriculum and reduce the required minimum hours forthe Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) degree	Approved by Committee on November 15, 2010	Approved by the Senate on December 6, 2010
19	EP.11.14	11/3/2010	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences in Religion degree	Approved by Committee on February 28, 2011	Approved by the Senate on April 25, 2011
20	EP.11.15	11/9/2010	Proposal from the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to eliminate the BS in Aviation Human Factors and the MS in Human Factors in the Institute of Aviation	Partial approval by the Committee on April 4, 2011	Committee Recommendations Not Approved by the Senate (May 25, 2011)
21	EP.11.16	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of LAS to revise and rename the Interdisciplinary Minor in Gender and Women Studies as the Undergraduate Minor in Gender and Women's Studies	Approved by Committee on March 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on March 28, 2011
22	EP.11.17	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of LAS to revise the Undergraduate Minor in LGBT/Queer Studies	Approved by Committee on March 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on March 28, 2011
23	EP.11.18	1/6/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College to add a master's thesis as an optional alternative to the master's examination in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures	Approved by Committee on January 31, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
24	EP.11.19	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of ACES to revise and rename the Agri-Finance concentration as the Finance in Agriculture concentration in the B.S. in Agricultural and Consumer Economics	Approved by Committee on March 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on March 28, 2011
25	EP.11.20	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of LAS to revise the M.S. in Astronomy	Approved by Committee on February 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
26	EP.11.21	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of LAS to revise the Ph.D. in Astronomy	Approved by Committee on February 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
27	EP.11.22	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of ACES to revise the M.S. in Agricultural Education	Approved by Committee on January 31, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
28	EP.11.23	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of FAA to create two new concerntarions, one in instrumental conducting - wind band and one in instrumental conducting orchestra	Approved by Committee on February 28, 2011	Approved by the Senate on March 28, 2011
29	EP.11.24	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of LAS to revise the MFA in Creative Writing	Approved by Committee on January 31, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
30	EP.11.25	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of Engineering to revise the B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering	Approved by Committee on January 31, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
31	EP.11.26	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of ACES to establish an undergraduate minor in Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies	Approved by Committee on February 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
32	EP.11.27	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of ACES to revise the B.S. in Horticulture	Approved by Committee on January 31, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
33	EP.11.28	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of ACES to establish a minor in Horticulture	Approved by Committee on February 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
34	EP.11.29	1/6/2011	Proposal from Associate Provost Keith Marshall to reconsider the Dual Credit Policy	Approved by Committee on April 11, 2011	Approved by the Senate on April 25, 2011
35	EP.11.30	1/6/2011	Proposal from the College of LAS to revise the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences in Gender and Women's Studies	Approved by Committee on March 7, 2011	Approved by the Senate on March 28, 2011
36	EP.11.31	1/31/2011	Proposal from the Senate Educational Policy Committee to Esatablish Guidelines for Degree Completion	Approved by Committee on January 31, 2011	Approved by the Senate on February 28, 2011
37	EP.11.32	2/3/2011	Proposal from the Chancellor and Provost to Close the Institute of Aviation	Approved by the Committee on April 4, 2011	Committee Recommendations Not Approved by the Senate (May 25, 2011)
38	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
39	EP.11.34	3/17/2011	Proposal from the Graduate College to terminate the M.A. in Mathematics	Approved by Committee on March 28, 2011	Approved by the Senate on April 25, 2011
40	EP.11.35	3/17/2011	Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to revise and rename the BSLAS in Earth, Society, and Environment as Earth, Society and Environmental Sustainability	Approved by Committee on April 4, 2011	Approved by the Senate on April 25, 2011
41	EP.11.36	3/30/2011	Proposal from the College of Business to revise the minor in Business for Non-Business majors	Approved by Committee on April 11, 2011	Approved by the Senate on April 25, 2011


* 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.



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Click below for a list of approved proposals during previous years,
1. 2004-05 Academic Year.
2. 2005-06 Academic Year.
3. 2006-07 Academic Year.
4. 2007-08 Academic Year.
5. 2008-09 Academic Year.
6. 2009-10 Academic Year.
   
   

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   Click here to view Educational Policy Committee's 2004-05 Annual Report.
   Click here to view Educational Policy Committee's 2005-06 Annual Report.
   Click here to view Educational Policy Committee's 2006-07 Annual Report.
   Click here to view Educational Policy Committee's 2007-08 Annual Report.
   Click here to view Educational Policy Committee's 2008-09 Annual Report.
   Click here to view Educational Policy Committee's 2009-10 Annual Report.
   
   
   

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