In the discussion, the following issues were raised. Some departments are not being consulted about how proposed changes affect them. It seems to make sense for CAA to consider establishing a set of protocols. In budget restructuring, with funding more closely tied to enrollments, it may very well become a serious issue. There will be two issues a quality control and a territoriality issue.
Quality control is a respectable way to defend against territoriality.
For the committee, we need a small group of people who deal with curriculum matters regularly. We have to decide what it is we want to monitor and have people work out a way of doing that. Smith said that was not part of the charge. This group would monitor more of curriculum overlap or enrollment shifts, etc. It was noted that the GEC is complicated and cumbersome and many of the units are requesting various changes.