ICCB staff is responsible for the review and approval of all courses and curricula offered at the colleges. Courses may be credit or non-credit and include Baccalaureate/Transfer courses, Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses, Vocational Skills courses, Remedial Education courses, Adult Education courses and English as a Second Language courses. Curricula may be degree or certificate programs and include all Baccalaureate/Transfer options (A.S., A.A., A.F.A., A.E.S., A.G.S., A.A.T.) and CTE options (A.A.S. and Certificates).

Colleges are required to submit requests for new courses/programs and revisions to existing courses/programs to ICCB staff prior to being offered at their institution. Requests for new programs require ICCB Board approval. For more information regarding the review/approval of courses and programs contact the following staff:

Baccalaureate/Transfer Education: Marcus Brown

Career & Technical Education, Vocational Skills, and Remedial Education: Tricia Broughton

Adult Education and ESL: Kathy Olesen-Tracey, Senior Director for Adult Education & Literacy

Documents:

• Course & Program Approval FAQs
• ICCIS – ICCB’s online tool that has been developed for tracking program/course requests submitted by community colleges.
• Generic Course List
• Program Approval Manual
• Course & Program Approval Presentation

ICCIS is ICCB’s online tool for submitting course additions/deletions/modifications and program deletions/modifications. (We do not currently accept new program requests through ICCIS.)