Reactivation Process
BACKGROUND
The General Education Committee for the 02-03 academic year adopted a formal policy of inactivating any General Education courses not offered at least once in the past three academic years. In accordance with that policy, each summer the General Education coordinator requests an enrollment activity report from the Office of the Registrar. That activity report is generated, based on the official list of General Education Introductory, Further Studies, and I & P courses. The General Education Committee receives the preliminary list compiled by the General Education Coordinator, based on the activity information. Each related department/program receives notice of apparent inactive courses, with encouragement to report any inaccuracies in the information. The department/program in question is requested to identify courses to be offered in the spring of the current academic year, as such courses will not be inactivated.
By December 1 of each year, an official list, approved by the General Education Committee will be furnished to the Vice President of Academic Affairs, listing all General Education courses inactive. Such action does not remove them from the General Education approved courses, just moves the course to inactive status.
REACTIVATION PROCESS
A department/program can apply to reactivate a General Education course within one year of it being offered again. The academic unit will submit a memorandum identifying the course to be reactivated, and the intended time of next offering, to the General Education Committee, via AVPAA. (Please allow adequate time before deadlines for course schedules and catalogs, to assure proper listing in these documents.) The memorandum will be accompanied by General Education Course Proposal Form and a syllabus for the proposed next offering of the class. The General Education Course Proposal Form should be clearly marked with the word “Reactivation”. The packet of the memorandum, course proposal form, and a complete syllabus, will receive expedited consideration by the General Education Committee, with action taken within one month of receipt of the complete packet (unless such action is impossible due to holiday break or summer term). The course will be reactivated if the memorandum contains a date of next offering within the next academic year, the course proposal form contains complete information on how the course addresses GE goals, and the syllabus contains the currently required information about appropriate use of any of the four across-the-curriculum skills components (writing, speaking, computation, and library literacy) AND identifies the course as a part of the General Education program, with appropriately designed General Education prerequisites. Upon approval of reactivation, the Chair of the General Education Committee will inform the VPAA so the course will appear as a part of the General Education program description in schedules of courses and catalogs.
Revised 3/12/12