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Official version of Undergraduate Catalog now accessible online Chronicle staff
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official version of the 2000-01 Undergraduate Catalog is online this
fall through the efforts of Academic Computing, Publications and the
Provost's Office.
"The activation of an official University Website for the catalog brings the campus to a new threshold," said deputy provost John Cunningham. Cunningham emphasized the importance of keeping information about course descriptions, requirements for majors, minors and certificates, and pre-requisites consistent everywhere it appears. "It is now timely for all units to examine [Web]sites which duplicate [the catalog's] information so that those sites either reproduce the approved content verbatim or clearly label as 'unofficial' any summaries, rewrites, expansions etc. of the information," he said. Cunningham said he will organize a process for updating the site annually at the same time the printed undergraduate catalog is distributed. He said he is considering making the catalog available on compact disc, perhaps when several years' catalogs are available in electronic form, and said he would like feedback about the utility of providing such a CD. The site (www.umass.edu/ug_catalog/) is accessible through the campus's "front door" page by clicking on either the "for faculty" or the "for current students" shortcut. |
