Academic Program Specialist

Assessment, Accreditation and Academic Program Planning

Email Address: skjessup@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.334.9798

Responsibilities

Kate manages curriculum revisions for graduate courses and programs and supports the Graduate Council’s activities. She monitors academic program activity, advising about program changes that need to be reported to the UNC System Office and SACSCOC. She maintains the institution’s inventory of academic programs and leads efforts to identify substantive changes to academic programs, and to report them to SACSCOC. She helps manage the approval processes for academic programs to the UNC System Office and ensures all internal documents, web sites, and publications accurately report the institution’s academic programs. Kate is also a resource for NC-SARA compliance.