A copy of the notification of intent must be attached to the request. Through administrative channels, the dean recommends to the vice chancellor for academic affairs or the vice chancellor for health sciences, as appropriate, who recommends to the chancellor. For a graduate program, the dean also recommends to the vice chancellor for research and graduate studies who will forward his or her recommendation with those of the dean and the Graduate Council to the chancellor. Requests for authorization to plan new degree programs and new tracks which require additional resources are forwarded to the president of the University of North Carolina by the chancellor. Proposals for new degree programs and new tracks which require additional resources require authorization to plan from the president of the University of North Carolina and the Committee on Educational Planning, Polices, and Programs of the board of governors.
New minors follow only the campus approval process.
Programs that have received authorization to plan must submit their request to establish to the appropriate oversight committees at least by November of the odd-numbered year following approval to plan. Before making any formal request to establish a new program, the unit must again consult with all the other units that may be affected, including Joyner Library, Health Sciences Library, and Computing and Information Systems. The requests to establish are then reviewed according to the faculty governance review process depicted in chart form, as follows. The administrative approval process is the same as that described above for requests for authorization to plan. The chancellor forwards the proposed new programs with the requests for authorization to establish to the president of the University of North Carolina for approval.