Assistant Provost & Director of Institutional Effectiveness Hampden-Sydney College, United States
Session Abstract: Academic and support units are often siloed at colleges and universities, making it difficult for stakeholders to collaborate over substantive changes that must be reported to the triad. This session presents one institution’s successful method for catching substantive changes and maintaining compliance with Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Standard 14.2. The session describes the policy and associated process and reviews components of the institution’s substantive change policy for application in other contexts. The presentation will highlight substantive change teams, tools for organizing and archiving changes, and strategies stakeholders use not only to catch substantive changes before they slip through the cracks, but also, to ensure the changes the triad approves are implemented successfully at the institution.
Keywords: SACSCOC, substantive change, academic and support units, trans-institutional collaboration
