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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

News

  • Not Transitioning Yet

    We do expect to establish a Temporary Tag/Cross-List request in CIM, but until it goes live please continue to use the Temporary Cross-List or Tag form (download from the box to the right) and submission through DocFinity.

  • Registration & Records drop-in Consultation

    Registration & Records will offer drop-in consultation for using CIM and CAT, via Zoom. For specific links, please consult the schedule of Drop-In Hours in the SharePoint folder.

  • Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM) will launch 1 August 2024

    Proposals for new courses and academic programs and for changes to existing courses and academic programs can be submitted in CIM when it launches 1 August 2024. The information proposers will need to provide will be similar to what the Academic Council, Provost's Office, and Registration & Records requested on previous generations of forms, but the CIM will feed it into an integrated university workflow for all appropriate bodies to review and approve. Fall 2025 will be the earliest possible effective date for new program proposals and program modification requests, and for new or changed course requests. If your academic unit in CAS needs course changes for Spring or Summer 2025 and they do NOT require approval by the College's Academic Council (e.g., typographical corrections, inactivations), please send Course Inventory Forms to the Associate Dean (jlong1@luc.edu). Course-requests needing Council approval or for effectiveness Fall 2025 or later should be submitted through CIM.

  • Transition to Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM)

    The College of Arts & Sciences and the other undergraduate and graduate Schools of Loyola University Chicago expect to shift all proposals, review, and approval of curricular changes to a centralized online workflow system, the Curriculum Inventory Management system (CIM) for the Fall semester of 2024. This system will supersede the Schools' and University's several review-systems for curricular changes. It will integrate the information hitherto communicated in numerous forms developed in separate units. The CIM will become the vehicle for course, program, and policy additions and modifications at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It will route each request through the appropriate workflow so that all needed bodies can review and approve. The CIM system will be open to all faculty and members of approving committees. Training materials will become available in a SharePoint site. The availability of these materials and the date of the CIM's launch will be announced.

  • Academic Council Members

    Review the Council's list of members for the 2024-25 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

    With the launch of CIM for curricular-change proposals, the CAS-AC DocFinity Platform (https://docfinity.luc.edu) retains utility as archive of the proposals reviewed by the Council in academic years from 2017-18 through 2023-24. Access remains limited to authorized user working through a campus terminal or LSA: please check with the Associate Dean to be approved for access in the system. Once you have logged in, look up items in the Searching workspace: specify information in the Metadata Query's input-boxes and zero in. Submitters who updated their indexing information completely will have greatly facilitated these searches! 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.