Programs: Moratorium Status on Occupational Programs
A college may decide to place an existing
occupational program on moratorium for various reasons. When placed on
moratorium, no additional students would be admitted to the program.
The decision to place an occupational certificate or degree on moratorium
is arrived at per the college’s internal processes of curriculum
review and approval. There is no specific policy as to how long the program
may be on moratorium. A college may later decide to remove the moratorium
status and reactivate the program or delete the program. This may also
include the deletion of prefixed courses unique to the program if they
are not being offered by other MCCCD colleges.
The MCCCD Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation (CCTA) will provide an annual report in June to the District
Curriculum Committee of all occupational programs with moratorium status. The CCTA Report of Occupational Programs with Moratorium Status is available through the Resources page on the CCTA website and may be accessed through the Curriculum Reports link.
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The processes for removing the moratorium status follow. Processes for deleting programs are listed under the Occupational Program Deletion section of the Curriculum Procedures Handbook.
College Internal Processing for Occupational
Programs Placed on Moratorium
The MCCCD college determines their internal process for placing programs
on moratorium. In arriving at their decision to place a program on moratorium,
at minimum the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Division Chair are involved and
consult with others as needed which may include but is not limited to
the program director, Advisory Councils and College Curriculum Committee.
Process for Submission of the Moratorium Request to the District Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation
College curriculum personnel:
Send an email request to the Director of the MCCCD Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation identifying the program to be placed on moratorium (dl-dssc-ccta@maricopa.edu).
Provide the effective first year/term of the moratorium (Example: AAS/3812 Nursing, effective first year/term of moratorium status: Spring 2008)
District Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation (CCTA) Personnel:
Receive the college request and archive the proposed change.
Update the degree audit and program information on the MCCCD CCTA website for the college requesting the placement of the program on moratorium.
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Reactivating a Program on Moratorium
College curriculum personnel may reactivate the program as follows:
College curriculum personnel sends an email request to the District CCTA, Director of CCTA ending the moratorium status for the program, andThere are two conditions that need to be considered in changing the moratorium status of a program.
They identify the effective first year/term for reactivation of the program.
If the program has been on moratorium for more than one year, it is the responsibility of the college to determine if the program needs to be modified to bring the requirements current. This is especially true in the general education area, an area that is subject to change on a semester basis per activity at course level. An occupational program modification may be required to modify the program requirements if the requirements listed on the program are invalid.
If the program has been on moratorium for less than a year, then the District CCTA, upon receiving the college request, will end the program version on moratorium and reactivate the program per requested first year/term. This change can be made absent a program modification proposal barring any problems with courses that might have changed during the time the program was in moratorium. It is understood that the colleges would determine validity of courses within the program prior to requesting removal of the moratorium status.
As part of the college planning processes, the program with moratorium status may be activated via the college’s decision to modify curriculum during the curriculum processing cycle. In this case, the program modification proposal in the Rationale area should identify the program as being on moratorium but reactivated and modified to meet current college need.
District-Wide or Shared Programs
In cases where the program is a district-wide or shared program (offered at multiple sites), a college may decide to place their program on moratorium. For processing purposes, this does not affect the other colleges involved, and it does not affect the program availability status of the district-wide or shared program. The only program affected is the one based at the college that has requested the moratorium status.
Multi-Track Programs:
If a program is comprised of multiple tracks and these tracks are also certificate-bearing programs, changes to the multi-track program may coincide with the college’s decision to also place one or more of the tracks on moratorium. This can be accomplished at the same time with the program modification identifying the tracks or program(s) on moratorium with effective first year/term provided. Future modification of the program with the remaining tracks would not list the certificates on moratorium until such time that the college decides to remove the moratorium status.
The Curriculum Procedures Handbook is a product of the Maricopa County Community Colleges District. Any and all changes to the Handbook are monitored and coordinated through the District Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation. Please give credit to the Maricopa County Community College District if the Handbook or sections of the Handbook are duplicated.
