The process by which distance education courses are developed follows the existing course development and approval process. It is at the departmental level that distant education course proposals for new, or converted/adapted existing courses are initiated. Determinations regarding appropriateness of medium, technical and/or content quality, and place in the departmental schedule will be a part of the departmental approval process. For those courses that are taught at more than one campus, the faculty proposer must collaborate with his/her peers at the other two campuses.

Following the approval of the appropriate campus dean of faculty, the proposed distance education course will then be forwarded, together with the proposed schedule, to the College Distance Education Committee for review and inclusion into the college's distance education program.

Proposed courses and schedules should reach the College Distance Education Committee two semesters prior to the semester that the courses are to be offered (December for the following fall; May for the following spring). This would allow for the Committee to review the proposal against the established principles for inclusion into the distance education program and to formulate its recommendation to the vice president for academic and campus affairs in this first semester; and for the faculty to train and to develop the course with reassigned time or overload during the second semester for both synchronous and asychronous courses.