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Saint Augustine’s University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) and complies with its 实质性改变政策和程序. Saint Augustine’s University (分) is required to submit any substantive changes to SACSCOC for notification and/or approval. A substantive change is a significant modification or expansion of the nature and scope of an accredited institution. The purpose of 分’s substantive change policy and procedure is to ensure that all substantive changes are reported to SACSCOC in a timely fashion as required by 实质性改变政策和程序. 实质性的改变包括高影响, high-risk changes and changes that can impact the quality of educational programs and services.

过程

After consultation with the Director of 认证 and Compliance to determine the nature of the change, the substantive change documentation must be submitted to the Chair of the Department and Dean of the School. 经他们批准后, the proposal for change is submitted to the Curriculum Council and 教师 Assembly before it moves to the Office of the Provost for final approval. The substantive change, if approved, is then sent to SACSCOC for review and approval. This is in accordance with the change process as outlined in the 课程委员会手册.

Substantive changes, including those required by federal regulations, include:

• Substantially changing the established mission or objectives of an institution or its programs.
• Changing the legal status, form of control, or ownership of an institution.
• 改变一个机构的治理.
• Merging / consolidating two or more institutions or entities.
• Acquiring another institution or any program or location of another institution.
• Relocating an institution or an off-campus instructional site of an institution (including a branch campus).
• Offering courses or programs at a higher or lower degree level than currently authorized.
• Adding graduate programs at an institution previously offering only undergraduate programs (including degrees, 文凭, 证书, 及其他信用证书).
• Changing the way an institution measures student progress, whether in clock hours or credit-hours; semesters, 三学期制, or quarters; or time-based or non–time-based methods or measures.
• Adding a program that is a significant departure from the existing programs, 或者交付方式, from those offered when the institution was last evaluated.
• Initiating programs by distance education or correspondence courses.
• Adding an additional method of delivery to a currently offered program.
• 进入合作学术安排.
• 根据第34 C条订立书面安排.F.R. § 668.5 under which an institution or organization not certified to participate in the title IV Higher Education Act (HEA) programs offers less than 25% (notification) or 25-50% (approval) of one or more of the accredited institution’s educational programs. 一份提供超过50%股权的协议
  one or more of an institution’s programs is prohibited by federal regulation.
• Substantially increase or decreasing the number of clock hours or credit hours awarded or competencies demonstrated, or an increase in the level of credential awarded, 成功完成一个或多个项目.
• 增加以能力为基础的教育项目.
• Adding each competency-based education program by direct assessment.
• Adding programs with completion pathways that recognize and accommodate a student’s prior or existing knowledge or competency.
• 颁发双重或联合学术奖项.
• Re-opening a previously closed program or off-campus instructional site.
• Adding a new off-campus instructional site/additional location including a branch campus.
• Adding a permanent location at a site at which an institution is conducting a teach-out program for students of another institution that has ceased operating before all students have completed their program of study.
• Closing an institution, a program, a method of delivery, an off-campus instructional site,
  或者在校外的教学场所参加一个项目.