{"id":6,"date":"2015-10-10T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps-cascurcomm\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:35:04","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcements and Key Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUE DATES FOR THE 2027-28 CATALOG:<\/span>
Friday, August 28, 2026:
<\/strong>drafts of new majors, minors, certificates, and programs
drafts of substantially revised majors, minors, certificates, and programs
<\/em>Friday, September 18, 2026:
<\/strong>final materials for new majors, minors, certificates, and programs
final materials for substantially revised majors, minors, certificates, and programs
deactivations or terminations of majors, minors, certificates, and programs<\/em>
Friday, October 30, 2026:
<\/strong>proposals for new courses that will carry CCC designations<\/em>
proposals for new graduate courses<\/em>
Monday, November 23, 2026:
<\/strong>proposals for new CAS undergraduate courses without CCC designations<\/em>
Friday, December 18, 2026:
<\/strong>small changes to majors, minors, certificates, and programs<\/em>
small changes to existing courses<\/em>
Monday, January 25, 2026:
<\/strong>reactivations of existing courses<\/em>
<\/strong><\/p>\n

COURSELEAF FOR THE 2027-28 CATALOG:<\/strong><\/span>
Proposals for new courses and changes to existing courses should be entered directly into CourseLeaf and chairs\/directors should advance those proposals in CourseLeaf.<\/p>\n

CCC application materials should NOT be put into CourseLeaf; they should be emailed to CASCurriculum@uvm.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CAS Curriculum Committee chair does retain the power to advance course action forms (CAFs) in CourseLeaf, and will be in touch with specific chairs\/directors if they are going to be doing work in CourseLeaf on behalf of those departments and programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP AND QUERIES:<\/strong><\/span>
Multiple people will be monitoring the new CASCurriculum@uvm.edu<\/a> account, so you’re welcome to direct questions there.<\/p>\n

Committee chair Alicia.Ebert@uvm.edu<\/a> will be the main point person.<\/p>\n

Associate Dean Sara.Solnick@uvm.edu<\/a> is the person to talk to first about developing new or substantial changes to majors, minors, certificates, and programs, as well as the staffing or enrollment implications of course changes.<\/p>\n

CAS Student Services representative Elizabeth.Dunbar@uvm.edu<\/a> is the point person for Catamount Core Curriculum (CCC) applications.<\/p>\n

GENERAL INFORMATION:
<\/strong>CAS faculty and staff can find the college bylaws governing the committee here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A list of current committee members can be found on this site here<\/a>, as well as on the list of all CAS committees and their membership, which is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Committee reports presented at CAS faculty meetings since Fall 1993 are available here<\/a>. Hard copies of these reports and pre-Fall 1993 reports are archived at the CAS Dean’s Office at 438 College Street.<\/p>\n\n\n

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DUE DATES FOR THE 2027-28 CATALOG:Friday, August 28, 2026:drafts of new majors, minors, certificates, and programsdrafts of substantially revised majors, minors, certificates, and programsFriday, September 18, 2026:final materials for new majors, minors, certificates, and programsfinal materials for substantially revised majors, minors, certificates, and programsdeactivations or terminations of majors, minors, certificates, and programsFriday, October 30, 2026:proposals … Continue reading Announcements and Key Contacts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cas-ascurcomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}