{"id":7402,"date":"2019-05-01T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:51:19","slug":"policy-point-policy-450-substantive-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2019\/05\/01\/policy-point-policy-450-substantive-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Point: Policy 450 &#8211; Substantive Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on new requirements from our regional accreditor (SACSCOC),\u00a0ACU has a adopted a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/offices\/hr-finance\/hr\/employee-handbook\/standards-of-conduct.html\">Substantive Change policy<\/a>.\u00a0Substantive change is a federal term for any \u201csignificant modification of the nature and scope of an accredited institution.\u201d This new policy applies to all levels and across the university in regard to anyone wishing to make a substantive change as more specifically defined by the policy (e.g., opening\u00a0or closing an academic programs, initiating\u00a0a new off campus site, entering into a consortium agreement). All substantive changes require ACU to notify SACSCOC and in some cases receive SACSCOC approval before implementation.\u00a0 If you have questions after reviewing the policy, please contact Chris Riley, ACU&#8217;s SACSCOC Liaison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on new requirements from our regional accreditor (SACSCOC),\u00a0ACU has a adopted a new Substantive Change policy.\u00a0Substantive change is a federal term for any \u201csignificant modification of the nature and scope of an accredited institution.\u201d This new policy applies to all levels and across the university in regard to anyone wishing to make a substantive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}