Academic Operations and Processes

Overview

This project will evaluate the current state of divided academic affairs and operations policy and their associated business processes. This will lead to the design and implementation of a university-wide and standardized academic policy and operational processes whenever possible. This shall reduce redundancies and increase productivity for academic affairs, operations, and adjacent departments.

The goal for this project team is to establish a new alignment of the university's academic operations functions, academic policies, and academic catalog before the start of the 2026-2027 academic year.

Teams involved

Registrar
Academic Affairs (CAS)
Academic Operations (CAPS/Sem/GS)
Office of People & Culture
ITS

Policy Alignment

Imagine a student having to navigate not just one academic policy but three different variations that contradict each other. This is the problem students would be facing if Bethel kept its current academic policies as they are without standardizing them for the whole university. The policy alignment group is tasked with identifying all current academic policies, evaluating the strengths of each, and then drafting a new aligned policy which should serve all students equally and fairly.

Academic Operations Alignment

Bethel's Academic Affairs (CAS) and Academic Operations (CAPS/Sem/GS) handle many similar functions for their respective schools with very little overlap or familiarity with the other group. The goal for this area of the project is to develop a single unit which serves much of the current work done by those particular offices.

Timeline

Jan 2024-kick-off
April 2024-identify and create a list of prioritized policies and processes to update
Sept 2024-Design of operations and processes ready
June 2025-Launch of aligned operations work
Sept 2025-New Operations team develop work for 26-27 Academic Year
March 2026-All Academic policies aligned and approved by faculty
August 2026-First term of aligned operations and policy

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