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Meeting Dates

In 2024-25 we will meet in person in 417 Cuneo Hall, 4:30pm-6:00pm as needed. Please note the hour!

  • 18 September 2024
    Submission deadline (all documents must have been submitted and approved through CIM, or if for any transitional period we are still using DocFinity, submitted and correctly indexed in DocFinity and the submitting academic unit's Chairperson or Program Director must have recorded approval no later than this deadline; preferably, partner-units also will have signed their approval): August 28, noon
  • 16 October 2024
    Submission deadline (see note above): September 25, noon
  • 20 November 2024
    Submission deadline (see note above): October 30, noon
  • 4 December 2024
    Submission deadline (see note above): November 13, noon (please note, this deadline is earlier than the Council's November meeting, to allow adequate time for review)
  • 22 January 2025
    Submission deadline (see note above): January 6, noon
  • 19 February 2025
    Submission deadline (see note above): January 29, noon
  • 19 March 2025
    Submission deadline (see note above): February 26, noon
  • 16 April 2025
    Submission deadline (see note above): March 26, noon
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About Academic Council

The Academic Council of the College of Arts and Sciences serves as the College's policy-making body in such areas as curriculum, quality of instruction, and admission policies that affect the academic life of the College. LEARN MORE

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  • Academic Council's DocFinity Platform

    Through Academic Year 2023-24, all curricular changes are requested through the CAS-AC DocFinity platform. The best access to the DocFinity system will be using Chrome or Edge, from a terminal on campus or through Loyola Secure Access; instructions for LSA from University Information Technology Services - Information Security - Resources. ITS has advised us that an upgrade to the DocFinity system will be made Sunday, 21 April, between 5:30am-10:00am. After that interval, when the platform will be offline, please remember it will be necessary to clear your browser cache before logging into the upgraded DocFinity. It will remain at the same URL. Before using the CAS-AC DocFinity platform, please review the general instructions about DocFinity on the page About the Platform at this website, as well as specific instructions for the type of curricular proposal you are making, under Instructions for Curricular Changes or Instructions for Temporary Tag/Cross-Listing Requests.

  • Academic Council Members

    Review the Council's list of members for the 2023-24 academic year. MORE

  • Meeting Schedule and Submission Deadlines

    The College of Arts & Science's Academic Council normally meets four times in each of the Fall and Spring semesters during the academic year. Submission deadlines for curricular applications are normally set 3 weeks ahead of the meeting date, to allow time for the Curriculum Committee to review the proposals and work with submitters to clarify and regularize them. Our goal is for changes the Council approves to pass smoothly through the University's other approval-processes and implementation. Changes requiring programming or re-programming of majors and minors normally need to have been approved by the Council no later than the December meeting of any one academic year, to be on-track for implementation as soon as the following Fall semester. New courses and course-changes normally need to have been approved by the Council no later than the February meeting of any one academic year, to be on-track for implementation as soon as the following Fall semester.

  • CAS-AC Archive

    Application-packages for proposed curricular changes and other meeting materials of the College of Arts & Science's Academic Council, from September 2017 forward, are archived in the CAS-AC DocFinity Platform. Individual items may be looked up in the Searching workspace: specify items of information in the Metadata Query's input-boxes and zero in accordingly. Submitters who update their indexing information completely greatly facilitate these searches! But if you find only isolated items through the search-parameter with which you start, you can usually locate the rest of a package by re-searching with the Unique ID.

  • Google Site

    The Academic Council Google site contains an archive of Council materials between 2008-09 and 2014-15.