Step 1: Identify Effected Community
- Use provided tool (coming soon).
Step 2: Obtain a General Consensus
- Discuss with Members of your Disciplinary Community at University Park and all effected campuses.
- (Assemble your consultation list in accordance with these Senate guidelines: http://senate.psu.edu/curriculum/guide-to-curricular-procedures/glossary/#consultation-statement).
- This is a preliminary, pre-proposal consultation, so you needn’t wait for responses from all affected parties.
- Retain all email correspondence.
Step 3: Complete the ACUE P-Form
- Review the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Studies (LAUS) submission deadlines and Administrative Council for Undergraduate Education (ACUE) meeting schedule in the sidebar
- Complete the following Prospectus Request Management form (you may be prompted to log in using your PSU access ID (abc1234)).
- Wait for other parties to complete their reviews:
- ACUE sends the prospectus memo to LAUS, which will inform us how to proceed.
- LAUS office notifies the Department and the request initiator.
Step 4: Submit Formal Proposal
- Have your a consultation list in place prior to creating the proposal in the Curriculum Information Management System (CIM), at curriculum.psu.edu.
- Prepare your proposal in the Program Management form.
- For additional information, review the Program Management User Guide.
- PLEASE NOTE: Administrative proposals are not entered in the CIM and do not go through Senate approval. An example is when you are moving a program. Please contact LACurriculum@psu.edu if you have any questions.
- Wait for other parties to complete their reviews:
- The formal consultation individuals will have 2 weeks to review the proposal. At the end of the 2-week review, the proposal can move forward for college review.
- The system will notify the initiator when there is a non-concurrence. It is the responsibility of the initiator to respond to the non-concurrence before the proposal can move forward. (A non-concurrence re-starts the 2-week consultation period and could happen multiple times.)
- A non-response turns to concur at end of two weeks.
- After the 2-week consultation period, the initiator will see a button to submit for college review.
- Wait for other parties to complete their reviews:
- College reviews proposal.
- College submits proposal to Faculty Senate.
- Senate will publish the result in their meeting notes.
What’s Next?
- College reviews the technical details and substantive justification.
- Ensure your vision is explained clearly and persuasively.
- Department head reviews proposal.
- College’s representative to Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs (SCCA) reviews the proposal (Suzanna Linn).
- Associate Dean reviews proposal (Mark Morrisson).
- Faculty Senate reviews proposal.
- Monitor the status of proposal. Faculty Senate will notify you if there is an issue to be addressed or if approved.