The University of North Carolina
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
POST OFFICE BOX 2688, CHAPEL HILL, NC 27515-2688
ALAN R. MABE, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Telephone: (919) 962-4614 Fax: (919) 962-0120 E-mail: mabe@northcarolina.edu
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November 3, 2009
TO:
Members, Committee on Educational Planning, Policies and Programs
FROM:
Alan Mabe
SUBJECT:
Restarting the Evaluation and Review of Proposed New Degree Programs
Background: After completing the revision of the policy and regulations for academic new
degree program review, GA restarted the review process holding the first disciplinary panel
on October 1, 2009. Several others have been held and others are planned through the end of
January. We bring to the Committee the results of some of those early disciplinary panels.
But as we heed the need to provide more budgetary information about programs, it becomes
clear that with the backlog of degree programs and the poor economic condition of the state
we will have to pay more attention to the implementation of a program than we may have in
the past. We may face the situation of having programs that meet our quality test but cannot
be implemented, at least in the near term, due to the amount of funds they would generate from
state funding. So we may have to give more explicit attention to the distinction between
approval for establishment and actual timing of implementation in an enrollment expansion
budget.
We bring these proposals forward today to show the results of the reviews, but also to raise the
issues about the relation of cost of programs to approval and implementation of programs.
Jurisdictional Authority: The Code 100.1, 301 C: It [Committee on Educational Planning,
Policies, and Programs] shall receive the advice and recommendations of the president and
make recommendations to the board in all areas pertaining to the development of a coordinated
system of higher education in North Carolina, including…the review of requests for the
initiation of new degree programs and recommendations for the termination of existing
programs….
Issues Involved: Relations of cost to approval of new degree programs; format for presenting
proposals to the Committee.
Background: We have included some documents (in 2D) that might prove helpful for
understanding the campuses’ requests for new programs:
1. Current list of degrees programs proposed by the campuses;
2. Summary of the numbers of actual and proposed degree programs in Response
to UNC Tomorrow;
3. List by campus of degree programs that may be proposed in response to UNC Tomorrow
in the three-year period between January 2009 and December 2012.
Recommended Action: GA recommends that discussion of the cost issues related to new
programs precede any discussion of individual programs. GA will be prepared to initiate that
discussion.
New Degree Requests
Received
Institution
Degree
CIP
Establish
3/6/08
NCCU
B.A. or B.S.
24.0101
Liberal Studies Degree
4/7/08
ECSU
B.A.
50.0501
Theater Arts
4/14/08
WCU
B.S.E.
14.0101
Engineering
5/9/08
NCCU
B.S.
11.0401
Information Sciences
6/13/08
FSU
B.A.
44.0401
Intelligence Studies
8/18/08
UNCC
B.A.
16.0302
Japanese Studies
10/15/08
FSU
B.S.W.
44.0701
Bachelor of Social Work
12/3/08
UNCW
B.S.
31.0505
Exercise Science
12/3/08
UNCW
B.S.
40.0702
Oceanography
12/3/08
UNCW
B.S.
11.0103
Information Technology
12/30/08
ECU
B.S.
40.0499
Applied Atmospheric Science
12/30/08
ECU
B.S.
11.0401
Geographic Information Science and Technology
2/5/09
UNCG
B.S.
52.0701
Entrepreneurship
3/30/09
NCSU
B.S.
01.1299
Soil and Land Development
3/30/09
NCSU
B.S.
26.0801
Genetics
3/31/09
NCA&T
B.S.
14.0501
Biomedical Engineering
4/17/09
ASU
B.S.N.
51.1601
Nursing
5/13/09
UNCW
B.A.
30.2001
International Studies
6/10/09
WCU
B.A.
30.2001
International Studies
10/30/09
NCA&T
B.S.
15.0612
*Motorsports Technology
Received
Institution
Degree
5/1/07
WSSU
M.S.A.
12/20/07
UNCP
M.A.
23.0101
English
4/14/08
UNCC
M.A.
45.0201
Anthropology
12/5/08
ECU
M.S.
26.0102
Biomedical Sciences
1/29/09
NCA&T
M.S.
40.9999
Nanoscience (joint with UNCG)
CIP
Establish
School Administration
Received
Institution
Degree
CIP
Establish
1/29/09
UNCG
M.S.
40.9999
Nanoscience (joint with NCA&T)
2/2/09
WCU
S.S.P.
42.1701
Specialist in School Psychology
2/16/09
UNCW
M.S.
03.0205
Coastal and Ocean Policy
2/16/09
UNCW
M.S.
51.9999
Biopharmaceutical Clinical Research
3/30/09
ECU
M.S.
30.9999
Sustainable Tourism
3/31/09
NCA&T
M.S.
14.0501
Bioengineering
9/14/09
NCSU
MENE
14.1401
Master of Environmental Engineering
9/14/09
NCSU
M
03.0104
Master of Environmental Assessment
9/14/09
NCSU
MGIST
30.0601
Master of Geospatial Information Science and Technology
9/14/09
NCSU
M.S. ENE
14.1401
Environmental Engineering
9/14/09
NCSU
M.S. & M
19.0701
Family Life & Youth Development
Received
Institution
Degree
CIP
6/6/08
UNCG
Ph.D.
26.999
9/17/08
NCA&T
Ph.D.
12/4/08
ECU
Ph.D.
13.0301
Curriculum and Instruction
12/14/08
NCA&T (UNCG)
Ph.D.
40.9999
Nanoscience
9/14/09
NCSU
Ph.D.
13.9999
Adult, Higher and Human Resource Education
Received
Institution
Degree
CIP
Authorization to Plan
2/15/06
WCU
DPT
51.2308
Doctor of Physical Therapy
5/4/07
NCSU
Ph.D.
54.0105
Doctorate in Public History
9/28/07
UNCG
Ph.D.
13.0601
Institutional Research and Assessment
10/9/07
UNCW
Ph.D.
42.0101
Applied and Experimental Psychological Science
3/17/08
ECU
Ph.D.
45.0699
Economics
4/29/08
UNCC
Ph.D.
26.1103
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
5/1/08
UNCC
Ph.D.
30.2001
Global Studies
5/1/08
UNCC
Ph.D.
16.0103
Translation Studies: Spanish
9/17/08
NCA&T
Ph.D.
11.0701
Computer Science
Authorization to Establish
Environmental Health Sciences
Computational Science and Engineering (Interdisciplinary)
Received
Institution
Degree
CIP
Authorization to Plan
9/17/08
NCA&T
Ph.D.
14.0101
Engineering
10/1/08
UNCC
Ph.D.
45.0401
Criminal Justice and Criminology
10/15/08
WSSU
DNP
51.1608
Doctor of Nursing Practice
10/15/08
WSSU
DPT
15.2308
Doctor of Physical Therapy
2/20/09
UNCG
Pharm.D.
51.2001
Doctor of Pharmacy
3/31/09
NCA&T
Ph.D.
14.0501
Bioengineering
4/3/09
UNCC
Ph.D.
51.2207
*Public Health Sciences
4/17/09
NCA&T (UNCG)
Ph.D.
44.07
*Social Work
6/24/09
UNC-CH
Ph.D. (M.A.) 05.0102
*American Studies
(MA to be used for PhD students along the way or leave without completing Ph.D. requirements)
8/12/09
NCSU
Ph.D.
*Not added to new degree programs inventory
13.9999
*Adult, Higher and Human Resource Education