Deleting Programs/Organizations

If needed, Programs and Organizations can be deleted within System Administration. When a System Administrator attempts to delete a Program or Organization, a validation check will notify the Administrator if there is associated data or not.

  • If there is no associated data, the delete will be confirmed.
  • If there is associated data, the Administrator will need to complete a waiver (see image below) in order to acknowledge that:
    • With the deletion of the respective program all of the following potential associations to that program will also be removed in Planning & Self Study, including:
      • Mission statement
      • Courses aligned to the program
      • Assessment Leads associated with the program. Reviewers would not be able to review the program’s plan review previously aligned.
      • Outcomes (Learning, Success, Archived) associated with the program. Measures and results associated with these outcomes will be removed.
    • The deleted program will also be removed from any:
      • Strategic Plan
      • Assessment Plan
      • Program Review
    • Reversing the Program deletion is not possible

      The Delete Accounting (AAS)? modal showing a list of Planning & Self‑Study associations that will be removed, including leads, outcomes, program links, courses, and tactics, followed by an Acknowledge section with a checkbox and acknowledgment text highlighted, and Cancel & Keep and Agree & Delete buttons.

      This example shows an administrator in the process of deleting a program in System Administration. Associated product data was found, and the administrator must acknowledge the implications of the hard delete by checking the boxes of potential associated data that will be deleted.

Steps to Delete Programs or Organizations:

  1. Access System Administration
  2. Click Organizations or Programs (depending on which you'd like to delete)
  3. Locate and select the Program or Organization that requires deletion.
  4. At the bottom of the following page, select either Delete Program or Delete Organization

    Note: Organizations with associated core data (programs, courses, people, other organizations) are locked and cannot be deleted until all associated data is deleted or reassigned to another organization.

    The Organization Details section showing organization name, code, type, and parent organization, with a message below stating that the organization cannot be deleted because it has core data associations, including child organizations, highlighted.

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