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General Education and Diversity Deadlines

2025-2026 Catalog General Education and Diversity Deadlines

"Once a year, in consultation with Academic Advising, the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee, and college deans, CAB may recommend a call for new GE course proposals in one or more areas based on programmatic needs and historical and projected student demand data. The date and rationale will be publicly available at www.csuchico.edu/ge. If there is no need for additional courses in any subject area, subarea, upper-division Pathway, or GE Minor there will be no call for new courses to GE" (EM 21-023)

January 29, 2024

After consultation with Academic Advising, the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee, and College Deans, CAB determined that historical and projected student demand did not justify a call for courses in any GE subject area.

CAB invites applications for courses to receive the Global Cultures (GC) or US Diversity (USD) designation in order to provide students with more and varied opportunities to meet the University Diversity Requirements. As indicated in EM 21-023, these requirements are not part of General Education, and may be met by both GE and non-GE courses, but are overseen by CAB, which reviews and approves courses with the GC and USD designations.

Applications are being accepted for (1) existing GE courses, (2) existing major courses not part of General Education, and/or (3) any new courses your department is currently developing outside of GE. Please note this is not a call for new GE courses.  A GC or USD designation does not entail any GE affiliation or obligation.

March 6, 2024

Proposals for USD or GC courses due to Curriculum Services.

April 26, 2024

Last day to email Memos of Intent and other required documents to the Intent Distribution List for the spring semester.  All responses to advertised material must be made by May 10, 2024. 

September 13, 2024 

General Education deadline to submit applications for Major Course Substitutions. Submit proposals to Curriculum Services (nsgray@csuchico.edu). Proposals submitted after this date cannot be guaranteed implementation for the 2025-2026 catalog. 

December 2, 2024

Last day to email Memos of Intent and other required documents to the Intent Distribution List for the fall semester.  All responses to advertised material must be made by December 13, 2024.

March 2024

The 2025-2026 University Catalog is published and the next Academic Planning and Catalog Production cycle begins. 

Any change of status to a course that involves General Education and/or Diversity must be advertised to the Intent Distribution List. Curriculum Services will notify the respective departments in ample time to complete any follow up paperwork involved in the process (CPCRs, New Course Proposals, Memos of Intent).

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