These guidelines are designed for use by the vice chancellor, dean, department chair, and others involved in academic program planning and approval within the University of Wisconsin System. The full policy governing academic program planning and review is contained in another document, "Academic Planning and Program Review." The major focus of these guidelines is on the process for requesting and implementing new academic programs. These guidelines describe the steps involved in this process in each of four major phases: request for entitlement to plan an academic program, authorization to implement the new program, implementation of the new academic program, and joint program review. The guidelines also provide suggested formats for use in developing the proposal for authorization to implement and in the joint program review. (EV)