Introduction
The UCSF Compendium is a compilation of campus policies and procedures relating to the creation, revision, discontinuation, and disestablishment of academic programs and units. It is designed to serve as a manual for the wide range of administrators, faculty, and staff who participate in these processes. Chief among the Compendium’s guiding principles is that academic programs, academic units, and research units work best when both faculty and administrators support them. All review and approval processes should promote the mutual endorsement of any proposed action.
The Compendium is divided into five principal parts:
- Section I covers processes for preparing and distributing information on campus academic program actions anticipated over the next five years.
- Sections II through VIII cover review processes for academic programs, academic units, and research units.
- Sections IX through XIII cover accelerated reviews, the role of the Budget & Resource Management Office, endowed chairs, affiliation agreements, and other useful information.
- The appendices provide flow charts, details of some review processes, and background documents.
The heart of the Compendium is Sections II through VIII and their associated appendices. Section II covers Academic Degree Programs, Section III covers Academic Units (including departments, schools, and colleges), Section IV covers Graduate Academic Certificate Programs. Section V covers Courses and Instruction. Section VI covers Organized and Multicampus Research Units (MRUs), Section VII covers Non-ORU Research Centers, and Section VIII covers Systemwide Academic Units. The three major types of actions described in these sections are establishing a new program or unit, changing the name of an existing program or unit, and transferring, consolidating, discontinuing, or disestablishing an existing program or unit.