Substantive Change Proposal - Saddleback College

Evidence of Necessary Approvals
Pursuant to Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 55206, “if any portion
of the instruction in a proposed or existing course or course section is designed to be
provided through distance education in lieu of face‐to‐face interaction between the
instructor and student, the course shall be separately reviewed and approved according
to the district’s adopted course approval procedures.” Therefore, all online and hybrid
courses are developed by faculty and approved by the Curriculum Committee and the
Academic Senate in alignment with Board Policy 2100.1. The form utilized for the
approval of online and hybrid courses is shown in Appendix E.
Courses approved by the Academic Senate are then forwarded to the College President
for review, to the Chancellor for review, and finally to the Board of Trustees for review
and final approval (see Appendix F for minutes of the Board of Trustees meeting of
February 23, 2009 showing approval of the curriculum for 2009‐2010).
All courses are then submitted to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
for approval, except as provided in California Code of Regulations, Section 55100(b) and
55160.
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