ABOUT GBC
Welcome to Great Basin College!
Great Basin College values you! Valuing what we have in common and our differences means we will foster a college climate of mutual trust, tolerance, informed discourse and always seek to promote GBC as a "safe space" to explore new ideas and perspectives with opportunities for you to grow, learn and be successful in a friendly, supportive campus environment. GBC enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC students enjoy outstanding academic programs, smaller class sizes, and excellent faculty who really care about our students. We are GBC!
ADMISSIONS
ACADEMICS
For High School Students
STUDENT SERVICES
Great Basin College is "The Gold Standard in the Silver State" when it comes to long-distance education and online education delivery. GBC offers hundreds of classes and a diverse array of certificate and degree programs fully online and fully affordable!
COMMUNITY
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
INFORMATION
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Great Basin College
1500 College Parkway
Elko, Nevada 89801
Do you need to go to the Curriculum and Articulation Committee?
YES (for approval) in any of the following situations:
- Creating a new course or changing an existing course (except prerequisites)
- Changing credits of an existing course (UNLESS changes are made for the purpose of alignment with CCN; these changes are information items only)
- Changing prefix of an existing course (UNLESS changes are made for the purpose of alignment with CCN; these changes are information items only)
- Changing course number of an existing course (UNLESS changes are made for the purpose of alignment with CCN; these changes are information items only)
- Changing title of an existing course (UNLESS changes are made for the purpose of alignment with CCN; these changes are information items only)
- Changing catalog description
- Changing grading basis (e.g., A-F or S/U)
- Changing repeatability rule
- Changing a course from transferable to non-transferable or non-transferable to transferable
- Creating a new program. All new programs require an Academic Program Proposal Form and a New Program Cost Estimate Form. These forms and the NSHE guidelines regarding new programs can be found on the NSHE Program Page. All new programs must be approved by the Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs (VPASA) before they are brought to Curriculum & Articulation. Refer to the Program Approval Sequence to see all the approvals required after a new program is approved by C&A, Faculty Senate, and President's Council.
YES (information only):
- Reactivating a course that has not been offered in the past five years and has been removed from the catalog. (please submit course articulation form and syllabus)
- Changing credits, prefix, course number or course title of an existing course for the purpose of aligning the course with CCN
- Changing an existing program
- Adding a new pattern of study to an A.A. or A.S.
- Changing course pre-requisites or co-requisites
- Inactivating a course
NO
- Changing an existing GBC course so that it has General Education status. In this case, you will need approval from the General Education Committee.
If “YES”, here’s what you need to know:
NOTE: Click here for a template for syllabi, including the ADA statement.
If the faculty request is approved, this is the route that the paperwork travels:
Curriculum & Articulation Committee->
Faculty Senate ->
Curriculum & Articulation Chair sign-off ->
Articulation Officer sign-off ->VPASA sign-off ->
SIS Operations (for appropriate changes in People Soft) ->
Academic Systems Specialist (for degree audit changes)
The paperwork will be housed in SIS Ops.
Curriculum & Articulation website.
Great Basin College
1500 College Parkway
Elko, Nevada 89801
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
Great Basin College - 1500 College Parkway - Elko, Nevada 89801 - 775.327.5002
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Accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
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