Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee

Purpose and Membership

The Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee's responsibilities include:

reviewing, studying, and recommending to the faculty all curricular matters;
ensuring that curricular matters conform to Ouachita’s liberal arts mission;
reviewing academic, admission, and retention standards and policy;
making recommendations to the faculty regarding standards and policy; and
monitoring the implementation of standards and policy.

The Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee consists of one faculty member from each of the seven disciplinary schools, a member of the library faculty, and one student elected by the Student Senate. The chair shall be elected from the committee’s full-time teaching faculty. The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Registrar serve ex officio without vote. The Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies serves when needed as liaison to the committee.

Submission Deadlines

The spring 2024 deadlines for submitting curriculum changes to CASC are:

Tuesday, February 27 (for consideration at March 12 faculty meeting)
Tuesday, April 16 (for consideration at April 30 faculty meeting)

Documents

Curriculum Change – Short Form Summary: (download)

Use the short form summary to indicate one or more minor changes to undergraduate level catalog entries, including:

course title changes;
non-substantive course content or description changes;
course time offering changes; or
non-substantive updates to a course or program to reflect dependencies or related changes made by another department.

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