To: Department Curriculum Binder Coordinators and Alternates CC: Academic Forum
You have been selected by your department chair or school dean to be either the department Curriculum Binder Coordinator or the Alternate Coordinator. As such, you are the person responsible for your department's Course/Curriculum Change Binder and the process to change courses, degrees, and fees. This year's process is only slightly changed, with communications now entirely by email and no paper memos.
The listserve courseprop-l will be used for this purpose and I would estimate fewer than 10 messages from me to the list. Before the Curriculum Verification Meetings coordinators use the courseprop-l list to share their adds, drops and changes to courses. This allows other coordinators to check with their faculty on how changes affect their own department degrees and respond at the meeting.
New for 2006 process:
- Dr. Reed asked that I pass on his request that overall fee increases for courses and labs be held to no more than 3.5% in your department if at all possible. In applying fees, some may be lower or higher individually, but the overall should be less than or equal to 3.5% increase. If you have extenuating circumstances that require fees beyond this limit, you may include a memo requesting a variance. This limit is in anticipation of State of Michigan imposed limits that are being discussed for fall 2007, which is when the current binder process fees would go into effect.
- OSRR has requested that all forms be returned in the binder this year, regardless of whether or not they are changed. In previous years, only changed forms were returned . One important item that remains unchanged is the request to mark all fees, changes, deletes and course adds in red text so they stand out for data processing.
- Graduate School is planning on including graduate degree programs in section 8 of the binder. Please follow their instructions which will be included in section 8.
- Interdepartmental/Interdisciplinary Graduate programs will be included in the Graduate School binder and that office will coordinate with the committees which run each program getting their changes entered. Section 7 will remain as is for undergraduate programs.
- This year there will be no mass training for the binder process. I will provide individual training to anyone who is new or requests a refresher. Please call or email me to arrange this once you have received your department's binder, which will be sent intercampus mail to the coordinator by August 24th. A calendar showing important dates for the Curriculum Binder process is posted on the web at:
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/em/faculty/courses/proposal_guide.php
other useful links relating to the binder process are located at:
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/admin/prov/Helene%20Hiner.htm
- The Curriculum Verification Meeting, which is required of coordinator or alternate, is scheduled for October 17 from 1 to 4 pm in the Hockey Conference Room at the SDC. This is the important meeting where departments share all of the completed adds, drops and changes in their binders so that other curricula affected may be adjusted or request changes. Remember to bring your binder to the meeting.
Helene
Helene T. Hiner
Administrative Associate
Office of the Provost and Vice President
and Co-Advisor,
Native American Association/MTU AISES Chapter
G07 Meese Center
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton MI 49931
phone: 906/487-2537