Approval Information
- Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE) approval letters
(Requires IU login) - University Academic Affairs (UAA) Monthly Approval Reports
(Requires IU login)
Procedural Information
- Required Approvals Matrix
- This document details the approval requirements for each type of programming.
- Table of Required Documentation
- IU Academic Term Definitions/Glossary
- This document provides a taxonomy of terms related to academic programming and approvals.
Proposal Documents
- DEGREES: Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE) Degree Program Proposal Form and Checklist.
- Use this document for all new degree programs.
Please ensure that the current form is being used, as it is subject to ICHE updating.
- Use this document for all new degree programs.
- DEGREES: Board of Trustees (BOT) Cover Sheet
- All new degree programs must be approved aat the Board of Trustees before advancing to ICHE. The BOT Cover Sheet is the sole document presented. Therefore, the proposing campus should prepare this document and include it with the program proposal at the time of submission within APPEAR.
- DEGREES: Course Articulation Planning for New Baccalaureate Degrees (Appendix 9)
- For all new baccalaureate programs, an articulation plan for students from Indiana's 2-year institutions (Ivy Tech Community College and Vincennes University) is required. Please complete the Appendix 9 document to be included with the proposal.
- Reference Documents for Articulation Planning:
- CERTIFICATES: IU Certificate Proposal Form
- Use this document for all new Stand-Alone or Area Certificates.
- For new certificates to be offered with financial aid eligibility, ALL sectinos of the IU Certificate Proposal Form must be completed for working with the campus Office of Student Financial Aid to add the certificate to the Program Participation Agreement with the Federal Student Aid division of the US Department of Education.
- Program Change Request
- This fillable-form PDF document should be used as the primary proposal document for items other than new degrees and certificates. When uploading into APPEAR, please also upload any required campus and contingent approval documents, as noted in the Required Approvals Matrix.
Documents for Online and Collaborative Proposals
- Office of Online Education Online Academic Program Initial Request Form (Qualitrics)
- Required for all online programming prior to proposal development.
- Includes all online degrees and certificates, collaborative online programs, hybrid programming of 50% or more online delivery, and all majors (including tracks, concentrations, and specializations) being offered within online degrees.
- New Degree Cover Sheet
- May be used as brief summary information in a proposal. The content of this document comprises the data entry in the APPEAR submission
- Office of Collaborative Academic Programming