The UNC
Policy Manual
400.1.2.1[R]
Adopted
Regulation
on Terminating Programs
The
procedure for terminating programs was adopted by the Board of Governors on
August 22, 1977. This procedure constitutes a designation of the planning committee
as the board's agency to hear contested decisions to terminate programs.
Section
605 A of The Code provides that a
chancellor, on the chancellor's own initiative, can undertake a major
curtailment or termination of a program.
The chancellor is required by Section 605 C(1) to consult with the
administrative officers and faculty of the institution, and the chancellor's
action is subject to the concurrence of the President and approval of the Board
of Governors.
The
termination procedure established in this policy, is entirely separate from the
one just noted and applies to those instances where on the initiative of the president
or of the planning committee, a program is to be terminated. This procedure is beyond the control of the
chancellor (except as an adviser to the president and the planning
committee). This procedure makes no
provision for the termination of the employment of individual faculty members,
only of programs. It would be a matter
for the chancellor's decision whether the termination of a program would have
the effect of making the services of one or more faculty members
unnecessary. The chancellor would then
follow procedures appropriate to the case.
[This is a
rewrite of Administrative Memorandum #85.]