1. Implementation of approved changes in existing academic programs involving:

   1. new degree requirements
   2. new course offerings
   3. changes in existing courses
      
      need not await publication in the University catalog.
   
   
2. Upon implementation of such a change, all members of the academic community -- students, faculty, academic departments, and administration -- shall have at the earliest possible moment the benefit of accurate and readily available information. To this end, each department and the Library shall maintain a special file of such information, until it is published in a subsequent catalog. All such changes shall be published in the Lode at least once per quarter. The responsible departments shall, upon request, explain the changes and make helpful interpretive statements.
   
   
3. Current catalog copy and the changes as they occur shall also be stored in appropriate data processing equipment, together with location coding, so that the equipment may be used to print "changes only" as well as the complete catalog copy as it is at any given time.
   
   
4. Such changes as outlined above should not lengthen the time required for a student to graduate if the student was enrolled at the time of the change.
   
   

Proposal Adopted by Senate: 2 December 1970
See Proposal 7-78