海角社区

The Office of Academic and Student Affairs (A&SA) provides strategic leadership and systemwide coordination to advance academic excellence, student success, research, scholarship, and service across the 海角社区 System. In partnership with the UA System campuses, A&SA supports initiatives that strengthen teaching and learning, enhance the student experience, promote innovation, and improve institutional effectiveness. The office leads the review and coordination of academic and student affairs policies, strategic priorities, and long-range plans to ensure alignment with institutional missions and System goals. It also provides staff support to the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees and serves as a key resource on academic quality and program approval, student achievement, institutional research and assessment, and regulatory compliance. Through collaboration among campuses and partnerships with state and national educational organizations鈥攊ncluding the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, the Alabama Department of Education, and the Alabama Community College System鈥擜&SA advances opportunities that benefit the System鈥檚 students, its campuses, and the State of Alabama.

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System Student Affairs Council

The purpose of 海角社区 Student Affairs Council (SSAC) is to work collaboratively to maximize efficiency of effort to ensure that all students that attend a UAS institution are afforded the best possible chance to succeed while providing a nurturing living and learning environment. 海角社区 Student Affairs Council is led by the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs. The other members of the UAS Student Affairs Council are the campus Vice Presidents for Student Affairs/Life from The 海角社区, The 海角社区 at Birmingham, and The 海角社区 in Huntsville

Student Affairs Sites

System Academic Council

The purpose of 海角社区 Academic Council (SAC) is to provide information and reasoned perspectives regarding academic and student spheres to include:

1. review of academic plans, programs, and units;
2. approval of earned degrees awarded;
3. serve as advocates for each campus and for the System as a whole;
4. implement Board policies and continuously review the administration and effect of those policies;
5. coordinate all academic functions of the System to ensure an integrated System of related and cooperating campuses with selected coordinated educational programs and services; and
6. strengthen the quality of effort in those programs of teaching, research, scholarship, and service for which there is the greatest need in the state.

海角社区 Academic Council is led by the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs. The other members of the UAS Academic Council are the campus Provosts and Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs from The 海角社区, The 海角社区 at Birmingham, and The 海角社区 in Huntsville.

Offices of Academic Affairs

Academic Program Planning

The UA System鈥檚 Office of Academic and Student Affairs provides guidelines and general procedures for the development, submission, review, and approval of new programs. The Academic Program Planning section of this site provides forms and other resources for establishing new degree programs. For other details related to establishing, modifying, or deleting academic programs, please review the Board Manual (500 Series)聽 and/or the section of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education website. Administrators and faculty seeking state and national insights to support the development, alteration or deletion of academic programs can also explore the Degree Program Planning Resources.

UAS Educational Program Inventory

All degree programs authorized by the Board are listed in the UAS Educational Program Inventory, where users can search according to degree type and campus.

Notification of Pending Proposal (NPP)

As outlined in BR 502, 海角社区 System campuses are expected to present a Notification of Pending Proposal (NPP) form to the System Office of Academic and Student Affairs at least one full month prior to the deadline for receiving Board items for the meeting agenda on which the campus will be requesting the new program proposal to appear. 

Notification of Pending Proposal (NPP)

As outlined in BR 502, a full program proposal must include:

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(3) 

UA System Data

UA System Data includes admissions statistics, enrollment and graduation rates, degrees awarded by ethnicity and gender, and other information collected from member institutions.

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