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MCC Daily Tribune

Announcing Curriculum Deadline Dates

Approving curriculum changes after students have already registered for a semester can create confusion for students and advisors and makes certifying Financial Aid eligibility more complicated.  Therefore, we have established Curriculum Deadlines that the College Community should be aware of.  

Curriculum Deadlines

Program revisions - proposals that have made it to MCC final approval - and also approved by SUNY and NYSED - by March 1, will be included in the Catalog for the subsequent Fall start.  

  • Program revisions that require SUNY/SED approval should be submitted by early November in hopes they can be included in the next Fall Catalog.  This timeframe accounts for the 10-day posting period and internal approval process and time for the Curriculum Office to prepare a packet for submission to SUNY/SED submission as well as time for SUNY's review and comment as well as SED's.
    • If Faculty Senate approves a program revision at the December meeting or earlier, there are good odds that the Curriculum Office has enough time to work with SUNY and SED to receive approval(s) by March 1.
  • Program revisions that are less than twenty percent content change and do not require SUNY/SED approval require less time as they need only internal MCC approval.  If a proposer seeks guidance on whether their proposal might need to be submitted to SUNY/SED for re-registration, please contact me.
  • Note: We are still in process of meeting New SUNY Gen Ed guidelines for a few A.A.S. Programs. Revisions that meet the New SUNY Gen Ed framework can be an exception for 2025 – if Final Approval is received by April 30.

New programs – No specific deadline for inclusion in the Catalog, but need the support of the Provost, Academic Department and Admissions to promote once SED approval is received.  The litmus test is - does the college have time to recruit an inaugural class? 

Course revisions – Course revisions with Master Schedule impact that miss these dates will be processed for the subsequent term.

  • March 1 for Fall
  • October 1 for Spring
  • January 15 for Summer

New Courses

  • No deadline but a litmus test - Does the college have time, and is there anticipated demand, to fill a new course offering? 
  • Faculty should consider the value of aligning the offering of new courses with the approval of corresponding program revisions.
    • New course offerings that are intended to be program requirements should automatically generate a program revision. 
    • If a program revision is not yet approved internally and at least submitted to SUNY, the inefficiency of creating course substitution requests and burden to students should be considered. 

Andrew Freeman
Curriculum and Program Development
11/15/2024