In offering its Board-approved core curriculum, an institution of higher education must list only those courses that have been approved by the Board as compliant with the Texas Core Curriculum. (1)Implementation and initial approval of core curricula. (A)[(a)] Each public institution of higher education [that does not already have a Board-approved core curriculum on file] must submit its proposed core curriculum to the Board for staff review and approval by November 30, 2013. [The request for approval should include a description of the goals of the core curriculum, a table showing the institution's core curriculum by component area (based on the model found in Charts I and II in §4.28(b) of this title, relating to Core Curriculum), and a complete listing of courses approved by the institution to fulfill core component requirements, organized to reflect each required and supplemental component area of the core curriculum as detailed in the document Core Curriculum: Assumptions and Defining Characteristics, adopted by the Board. Courses should be selected to fulfill component requirements in a core curriculum based at least in part on their ability to meet most of the exemplary educational outcome statements for the component area as described in the document Core Curriculum: Assumptions and Defining Characteristics, adopted by the Board.] (B)An institution shall follow the procedures posted on the Board's website regarding the implementation and approval of the initial core curricula. (C)The institution will receive a letter from Board staff giving notice of approval of the initial core curriculum and/or indicating any courses that do not meet provisions of the core curriculum. (D)Upon receiving an approval letter from Board staff, the institution will document the approved core curriculum in institutional publications. (2)Revision of Existing Approved Core Curricula. (A)An institution of higher education may request changes to its core curriculum annually. One comprehensive request may be submitted each academic year, on a schedule that suits the institution's needs, except that requests received later than March 1 of each year will not be approved to be effective for the upcoming academic year. (B)[(b)] An institution should follow the [these] procedures posted on the Board's website to modify its core curriculum by adding or deleting [to add or delete] courses and must provide information to justify the requested changes.[, change the total number of semester credit hours in a non-required component area, or change the total number of semester credit hours required in its core curriculum:] [(1)submit to the Board a letter documenting each change to be made, the component area(s) affected, and a rationale for the change;] [(2)requests that involve changing the overall number of semester credit hours in the core curriculum or the number in a given component area require documentation of prior approval by the institution's governing board;] (C)[(3)] The [the] institution will [shall] receive a letter from [the] Board staff giving notice of approval [acceptance ] of the proposed changes and/or indicating any changes that do not meet provisions of the current core curriculum, and identifying an effective date for any approved change(s) [Board-approved criteria]. (D)[(c)] Upon receiving an approval letter from Board staff, the institution shall make any required changes to its core curriculum and will document those changes in institutional publications.
This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has
been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's
legal authority to adopt.
Filed with the Office
of the Secretary of State on August 12, 2011
TRD-201103165 Bill Franz
General Counsel
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Proposed date of adoption: October 27, 2011
For further information, please call: (512) 427-6114
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