News

In November 2022, the Board of Governors approved the Policy on University Policy Documents (previously the Policy on University Policies and Procedures), which establishes a systematic and integrated process for the development and review of policy documents at CUE.

This policy and its associated procedure and supporting documents came into effect in January 2023 and can now be found in our online Policy Manual.

What has changed?

• New Policy Document Framework, which outlines the policy document approval pathways.
• Designated Executive Officers will be renamed Policy Owners.
• Procedural Authorities and Procedural Officers will be removed from policy documents. Policy Owners can now designate a Policy Developer(s) to develop and review policy documents.
• New Policy Document Action Plan, which is used to propose an action to a policy document.
• New templates for university policies, procedures, and standards.
• The Policy Coordination Committee reviews all policy documents prior to their approval and provides feedback based on a standard Policy Document Checklist.
• New resources will be available in our Policy Developers’ Toolkit (coming soon).
• Changes to our external policy web pages and Policy Manual (coming soon).

To read more about the new development and review process, please visit this page in CUE Connect.

Coming up! In response to Reconnecting CUE 2022, our office has committed to providing regular updates so CUE members are informed about changes to university policy documents. Please feel free to send any questions to policy@concordia.ab.ca.