The Office of Accreditation, Assessment, Curriculum, and Compliance (AACC) plays a central role in bridging curriculum content with curriculum operations. Housing the University Curriculum Administrator (UCA), AACC supports the full cycle of governance by aligning faculty-driven curricular ideas with the technical, procedural, and compliance structures that make them operational. AACC ensures proposals move smoothly from intellectual design to official implementation, maintaining both academic integrity and administrative accuracy. In this way, AACC functions as the connective hub between governance (the University Committee on Curriculum), faculty, and registrar processes.
Online Systems
Below you will find links to the appropriate forms for the following processes, with “Checklists” to outline the full process and timeline for each.
Step 1: Provost Review Committee (PRC) Blueprints
Step 2: (for new courses, course changes, moratorium, discontinuation, or moratorium extension, start with Step 2)
Provost Review Committee
The Provost Review Committee (PRC) is comprised of MSU representatives who provide an internal coordination and feasibility review, charged by the Provost to support colleges and faculty before curricular proposals move into the formal University Committee on Curriculum (UCC) process. It ensures proposals are ready, not whether they’re able to be approved.
The PRC is not an approval body and does not replace academic governance. Instead, it checks for compliance and policy alignment, budget clarity, modality readiness, and systemic risks before formal review begins.
Members of the faculty remain the sole authors and academic decision-makers for curriculum content, design, and disciplinary intent. The PRC supports the infrastructure around the proposal not the academic content itself.
The Provost Review Committee (PRC) includes representatives from the following MSU offices and units:
• Academic Governance
• Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation
• Institutional Space Planning and Management
• Institutional Research
• Office of Accreditation, Assessment, Curriculum, and Compliance
• Office of Admissions
• Office of Audit, Risk, and Compliance
• Office of the Controller
• Office of Financial Aid
• Office for International Students and Scholars
• Office of the Provost
• Office of the Registrar
• Office of Undergraduate Education
• Program Assessment and Curricular Effectiveness (PACE) Committee
• The Graduate School
• MSU Libraries