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Approval Level Requirements

Board of Regents approval is required for:

• Adding new programs
• new degree program or major
• new credit certificate program (baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate)
• new minor
• Changing current programs
• add a formal track to an existing major
• change a program or unit name
• change a degree designation
• discontinue a program
• offer new distance delivery of all or substantially all coursework for an existing degree program

Senior vice president for academic affairs approval is required for:

• Adding a new site for the delivery of an existing program
• Formalizing a domestic or international credit-bearing agreement for an academic exchange or articulation agreement with another institution
• Changing or adding new course designators and program codes

Provost (Twin Cities), vice chancellor (Crookston, Duluth, or Morris) or senior vice president for health sciences approval is required for:

• Adding an honors options to an existing undergraduate degree program
• Making other curricular changes
• change number of credits or required courses in a major or minor
• change definition of options in a major
• Adding "second tier" admissions requirements, i.e., entrance requirements to a major that go beyond admission to the collegiate unit

Vice chancellor (Crookston, Duluth or Morris) or collegiate dean (Twin Cities) approval is required for:

• Changing curricular details such as course substitutions (one course is dropped and another replaces it), revised lists of electives approved for the program, and changes that result from realignment or adjustment of course content.

All changes approved at vice chancellor or collegiate dean levels must be reported to the senior vice president for academic affairs.