Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising (CUSA)

Committee Liaison

College Advising & Student Services Liaison:  Director Karen Ledom, 785-864-3500, kjh@ku.edu

Admin. Support: Rachel Decorie, 785-864-1784, rdecorie@ku.edu

Description

According to the Bylaws of the College Assembly » (Article VII.B.2), the Committee on Undergraduate Studies & Advising) shall:

1. Review and recommend to the CAC and/or the CA for action on all proposals with reference primarily to undergraduate course and curricular change, program requirements (which include degrees, majors, minors, certificates) and educational policy and procedures.  New majors, minors, degrees, or certificates, or deletions of the same, should be acted on individually.  All other proposals should be considered as a whole.
2. Review and forward to the University Core Curriculum Committee all proposals to include courses in the KU Core Curriculum for courses offered by departments/programs within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
3. Review and accept for file statements of departmental honors requirements.
4. Periodically review undergraduate degree requirements and the manner in which they may be satisfied, and, where appropriate, suggest to departments and programs that courses be modified so as to accomplish more effectively the goals for which the requirements were established.       
5. Review and make recommendations on undergraduate petitions requesting special relief from College or University rules when referred to them by College Student Academic Services, the dean and/or the dean’s designee, or by special request of the student.
6. Respond to charges from the dean on matters including but not limited to undergraduate academic policy and procedure as well as advising.
7. Make recommendations regarding undergraduate education including but not limited to policy and procedures as well as advising, to the dean, the CAC, and/or the CA.

Meetings

Meeting Dates

The full committee of CUSA meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month during the academic year from 11:15-12:30 when classes are in session.  Subcommittee meet the first and third Tuesday of the month when classes are in session.

See meeting documents.

Policies & Procedures

• Bylaws of the College Assembly
• Grievance Procedures
• Misconduct Policy
• University Governance website
• Departmental Honors Petition
• 2021-2022 CUSA Member Notebook

Curriculum Changes

Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM)

• Submit new courses or edit and retire courses
• Submit new programs or edit programs (to submit new programs or edit programs (Majors, Minors, Degrees, or Certificates), you do not retire programs in this system)

Undergraduate Certificate Information

A new certificate proposal should be submitted as a new program in the link above.

Certificate Proposal Guidelines/Policy

Example of fields needed for new program

Deadlines

In order to obtain final governance approval of undergraduate-level course and program proposals in time for inclusion in the 2023-2024 catalog (which will go live in early April 2023), please submit your request via the CIM system no later than Tuesday, October 18th (see links above).

While we will make every effort to include all approved submissions in the next catalog, we cannot guarantee that proposals will make it through all steps of the approval process in time if received after October 18th.

Submission Deadlines

Subcommittees

• Policy and Awards Subcommittee
• Curricular Changes and Degree Requirements Subcommittee