Form GSR 400 should be used in proposing revisions. All such changes must be approved by the CGSR and the Academic Affairs Committee. The CGSR, Academic Affairs Committee and the Office of the Registrar are working collaboratively to develop procedures which protect standards of academic quality, while allowing units to make changes as quickly as possible and thereby protect flexibility and the effective dissemination of information. Close attention to announced deadlines should allow units to maintain effective control of their course offerings. Academic disciplines evolve, along with the research, teaching and methodologies associated with them.
Faculty members resign and retire.
It is inevitable, as a result, that graduate programs are in a constant state of evolution. The Programme Audit of the APPC Committee has recently shown that there are many examples of programs approved some time ago which no longer resemble in any significant way the programs as originally developed. This is a natural phenomenon, which should be controlled and directed, but not stopped, by regular program reviews and action plans. It is a desirable goal that the process of change should be a process of continually enhanced academic achievement and discovery. Graduate programs which evolve in a dynamic way overtime are not closely scrutinized on a regular basis by CGSR committees and the Academic Affairs Committee of Council.