Academic Planning coordinates academic proposals from the sixteen constituent universities of the University of North Carolina and carries out other responsibilities relative to:

• Academic program inventory (all academic programs offered by the sixteen university campuses of UNC)
• Procedures for academic program development (planning and establishing new baccalaureate, master's, doctoral, and first professional degree programs)
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• Distance education program inventory (all online academic programs offered by the sixteen university campuses of UNC)
• Procedure for authorizing distance education degree programs
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• Certificate and licensure program inventory (all such [non-degree] programs offered by the sixteen university campuses of UNC)
• Procedure for notifying UNC General Administration of new certificate and licensure programs
  
  
• Coordination of inter-institutional arrangements
  
  
• Board Planning Committee
• Board long-range planning
   
  
• Academic program productivity reviews
• Academic accountability
• Enrollment planning
• Focused-growth campuses
  
  
• Licensure of non-public post-secondary institutions
• Academic Common Market
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• Outreach to military personnel
  
  
• Workforce studies
• Professional Science Master's (PSM) degrees
  
   
• Academic Planning reports
  

Staff responsibilities for these are described at Academic Planning staff contacts.

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