THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE



                                      FACULTY SENATE



                                         Senate Document Number  0489F    



                                         Date of Senate Approval 12/14/89





        Signature of Senate Chair _______________________ Date __________



        Action of Vice Chancellor:



              Approval _______________________  Date ______________



              Denied   _______________________  Date ______________



        Reasons for denial and suggested modifications:





















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        Statement of Faculty Senate Action: 



                   APC #3: "SUNSET" POLICY FOR CATALOG COURSES 







        Effective Date:  Fall 1990



        Policy:  Any course listed in the UNCA catalog and not offered for

        5 consecutive academic years will automatically be deleted from the

        catalog.  Departments may petition to the Academic Policy Committee

        (APC) for exceptions.  



        Implementation:  At the close of each summer session, the Office of

        Institutional Research shall prepare a list of all courses

        published in the UNCA catalog for 4 years without being taught

        (i.e. courses in danger of "sunsetting" when the following catalog

        is published).  This list shall be distributed to all department

        chairs/program chairs by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

        with a statement of the above "sunset" policy.  Academic

        departments may choose to offer these courses, prepare appeals for

        the APC to avoid "sunsetting" or simply permit the courses to be

        deleted.  Appeals for exemption must include a rationale for

        retaining each course and will be evaluated directly by the APC.

        If the APC does not approve the appeal for exemption, then that

        appeal will also be considered by the Senate.  All appeals must be

        decided at least 1 week prior to the catalog deadline date.  At the

        catalog deadline date, the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs


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        shall notify the catalog editor by signed memorandum of those

        courses to be deleted from the subsequent catalog.  



        Rationale:  The UNCA catalog needs to be kept up-to-date since

        students and potential students use the catalog to obtain

        information about our course offerings.  A "sunset" policy is a

        simple and efficient mechanism to accomplish this goal.  The 5-year

        time period was chosen because new courses often are created for

        new faculty members and 5 years is the longest initial contract

        term at UNCA (i.e. new Associate Professor).  The implementation

        provides for a mandatory 1 year advance "warning" to academic

        departments and a mechanism for appeal to retain courses important

        to the curriculum which have not been offered due to staffing

        limitations.