Academic Programs and Organizations

On this site you will find information about how to:

• Create a new academic program or organizational unit.
• Make changes to existing programs or organizational units.
• Create a graduate certificate, accelerated master's program or dual graduate program.
• Request academic program controls for academic programs, minors, and/or courses.
• Participate in a Multi-University Consortium Agreement.
• Develop student learning outcomes and assessment methods.
• Access a list of currently approved academic programs.
• Access Curriculum Bulletins.
• View history of academic changes since 1979.
• View official notification of changes memos.
• Access program and organization documents.
• Access an academic committee calendar of meeting dates.

We've also made the necessary forms available for download, as well as information about recent changes to the UA program inventory. If you can't find the information you need here, please let me know!

Please Note: The guidelines for creating a new academic program, planning phase, have changed. Student learning outcomes and assessment methods will only be required for the implementation phase of the approval process. Please see Policy 2-203, Academic Program Planning Implementation at: ABOR Policy 2-203, for more information.

Program/unit Processing Information

• Creating a new program
• Changing an existing program
• Creating a new academic or non-academic organizational unit
• Changing an existing academic or non-academic organizational unit
• Approval process routing chart
• Forms and guidelines for program/unit processing
• ABOR Policy 2-203 (Academic Degree Program Planning & Implementation)
• Developing student learning outcomes and assessment methods

Special Graduate Programs

• Accelerated Master's Program
• Graduate Certificate Processing Information
• Graduate Dual Degree Processing Information
• Professional Science Master's Information
• Guidelines for CGS Recognition as a Professional Science Master's Program (MS Word 2007)

Academic Program Controls

• Request for Academic Program Controls form (MS Word)
• Future Applications to Restrict Undergraduate Access to Particular Majors, Minors, or Groups of Courses effective April 2, 2006 (PDF)

Multi-University Consortium Agreement

• Request for Participation in Multi-University Consortiums -- please contact the Provost's Office.

UA Research Units

• Approved UA Research Centers, Institutes and Bureaus

Academic Program Information

• Approved Academic Programs
• Approved Graduate Certificates
• Curriculum Bulletins
• Academic Program & Organization Documents

Other Program Information

• Memos announcing program/unit changes
• History of Academic Change since April 1979
• Information and Resources Index

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