Intended Audience and Contact Information
| Contact | Chief Data Officer, Office of the CIO |
|---|---|
| Intended audience: | Internal UBC |
| UDM Domain | Academic |
| Applicability | Credit |
| Guideline ID | DG0005 |
Definition
A Program Area is a grouping of Programs of Study across different units based on similarities in order to facilitate administrative processes or shared ownership between multiple units in Workday. Some examples of how Program Areas are used include but are not limited to:
- Gaining efficiency in applying the same student eligibility rules to different programs across different units;
- Optimizing reporting by filtering data for a specific grouping;
- Modelling current UBC governance structure by identifying owning units for those programs of study that are owned by multiple units as a workaround to current configuration limitations on Owning Academic Units versus Coordinating Academic Units.
A Program Area Type is the category of Program Areas based on a shared administrative purpose(s). Each Program Area Type is associated with a Program Area Type Name and a Program Area Type Prefix.
Purpose
Due to the complexity of the data the Program Area and Program Area Type attributes have not been standardized in Workday. In lieu of a data standard, these guidelines have been created to provide recommendations around the creation of a Program Area and Program Area Type to encourage consistency in data entry for these attributes. For more details on Program Areas and Program Area Types, please see the Program of Study Data Standard.