The Academic Planning Calendar 2025–2026 outlines the pathways for developing academic programs, providing a structured timeline and process for proposing, reviewing, and implementing new academic ...

The Office of the Provost is establishing a general framework for the external review of academic programs based upon: (a) past practice at Purdue University; (b) the thorough research of the ...

“Academic program reviews” have become a standard best practice in higher education’s accountability world. Every five years or so, a department brings in outside professors to critique how well — or ...

The Bowdoin College Catalogue and Academic Handbook provides a comprehensive explanation of the curriculum and its associated academic standards and regulations. Just as students are responsible for ...

While not talking about academic-program closure, Machiavelli certainly could have been when he noted that “there is nothing more difficult to carry out … than to initiate a new order of things. For ...

Responsible management of academic programs depends on regular and consistent information made available to departments and colleges for the purposes of monitoring academic quality and resource ...

As part of a $27.5 million reduction to its spending, the University of Nebraska anticipates the closure and merger of academic programs. Facing an ongoing budget deficit, the University of ...