1. Wearin’ the T-Shirt
Lisa Kulczak Associate Registrar, Curriculum Management University of Arkansas
T4.10
February 14, 2017

2. University of Arkansas
Founded in 1871 as a land- grant college and state university
4-year public institution consisting of 10 schools and colleges
Degrees granted: baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral, and professional
Student population 27,194 (Fall 2016)

3. Curriculum at the U of A Over 210 academic programs offered
Nearly 5,000 active courses on the books
Over 300 program changes for the last academic year
Nearly 1,200 course changes in the last academic year
Three catalogs published annually

4. Curriculum Management in 2008
Course Changes
Program Changes
Java-based application developed in-house
Moved course proposals through workflow
Used nearly 15 years
“Electronic” program change form
Protected Word document submitted and routed via
Hard copies printed for appropriate signatures at multiple campus committee meetings
Catalog Updates
Colleges/departments edited Word documents
Updates made in current content management system (RedDot)

5. Curriculum Management now
Use third-party curriculum management system
Course and program updates integrated with catalog updates
Published catalogs with new software
Went live with course change module in spring 2014
Went live with program change module in fall 2014
Course Changes
Catalog Updates
Program Changes

6. Wearin’ the T-Shirt (aka What Have We Learned?)
Be open to changing your current curriculum forms!
Insist on knowing how the new system uses the data you send….
Re-evaluate your policies and procedures….
Any data “clean-up” has to be done in two systems—your SIS and the curriculum software….
Know your data!

7. If We’d Only Known…. Pats on the Back….
Responsive forms, tailored to our institutional policies/practices
Some form functionality didn’t quite work as expected
Buy-in from colleges and administration
Meshing our forms with state required documentation
User-friendly system
Workflow
Granular units in program management
Extracts and data syncing
Extracts—what to include and what to exclude
Catalog more accurate than ever
Extract for program module
Training/training documentation
Order of implementation

8. Questions? Thanks for attending! Lisa Kulczak
Associate Registrar, Curriculum Management
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (479)