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Core Curriculum - Implementation Deadline

As the "Guidelines for Core Course Development" indicate, each course fulfilling a core requirement will require review by the Core Curriculum Committee. Thus, the academic year 1999-2000 would be a year of both review and course/faculty development.

March - May 1999

Identification of Summer Course Development Work (For new courses; for existing courses where a group of three, for example, could begin modifying a course so a department could begin with a draft proposal in the fall)

May 1999

Identification of membership for the Core Curriculum Committee

May 1999

Identification of a coordinator for the First-Year Interim Course

Summer 1999

Summer Course Development Work

November 1999

Core Curriculum Committee Begins Review from Departments

January 2000

Core Curriculum Committee Completes Review

February 2000

Chairs and Deans Develop Schedule for Fall 2000

February 2000

Identification of Summer Course/Faculty Development Work (moving courses from approved proposals to actual courses)

March 2000

Students Register for Fall 2000

April 2000

Interim Team Committee Presents Interim 2001 plan

Summer 2000

Summer Course/Faculty Development Work

September 2000

New Core is Offered

Note: When this appendix was reviewed at the faculty meeting, an amendment was passed changing the last entry to September 2001, thereby affecting the entire timeline. A new timeline is forthcoming.