University Curriculum Committee

Membership

All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible with the exception of department chairs, assistant deans, associate deans, and deans. Voting members include the following:

1. Two tenured or tenure track faculty representatives from each academic college, who serve as curriculum coaches. Faculty members are appointed by the dean.
2. Two student representatives, one undergraduate and one graduate. The undergraduate student representative is appointed by NSGA. The graduate student representative is appointed by the Dean of the Graduate College
3. One representative from the Faculty Council;
4. One representative from the Graduate Council; and
5. One library representative
6. Representative from the Registrar’s office, non-voting ex officio
7. Representative from Academic Affairs office non-voting ex officio

The chair of the curriculum committee will serve a two-year term. At the end of the service term, the chair will be replaced by the vice chair.

Function

The committee provides oversight, guidance, and direction for the university’s educator preparation programs and ensures that all programs comply with teacher certification standards and state and national standards for accreditation. The committee functions as an avenue for communication of new requirements and policies in teacher education. The committee approves all program changes for teacher education programs prior to being submitted to the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee. The committee reports to the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Committee

The committee will meet once monthly according to the schedule published in the Academic Calendar. Additional meetings may be called if necessary.

• Dr. Cheri Mays, Chair, COE Representative
• Dr. Luke Foster, Vice Chair, GWCSHP Representative
• Dr. Ingrid Massey, COE Representative
• Dr. Sanchari Ghosh, CBT Representative
• Dr. Brian Vickers, CBT Representative
• Dr. Spence Pilcher, GWCSHP Representative
• Dr. Chris Malone, COLA Representative
• Dr. Svetlana Koltovskaia, COLA Representative
• Dr. Jeff Miller, Optometry Faculty Representative
• Dr. Anita Ede, Graduate Council Representative
• Ms. Christel Posten, Library Representative
• Amanda Kilpatrick, Graduate Student Representative
• TBD, NSGA Representative
• Ms. Amy Dunn, ex officio, Registrar's Office
• Dr. Cari Keller, ex officio, Office of Academic Affairs