University Curriculum Committee Charge
Duties
Act as a body which stimulates curriculum development in the colleges and gives cohesive force to curricula rather than acting as an initiating unit. Matters pertaining to specific curriculum content should be dealt with at the college or department level whenever possible. Curricula should be initiated by departments and recommended by colleges to college deans.It is essential that the membership of the University Curriculum Committee take a university-wide perspective during the decision-making process. The special function of the chair of the Educational Policies Committee, in his/her capacity as a member of the University Curriculum Committee, is to communicate items of special interest to the Academic Senate, with particular attention to those deliberations of the University Curriculum Committee, including possible actions concerning implementation and procedure, which might affect curricular policy.
Appeals and reviews of lower committee decisions are made to the University Curriculum Committee. Any individual faculty member dissatisfied with any recommendation, ncluding policies, procedures, and guidelines of the University Curriculum Committee, may appeal that recommendation to the Academic Senate. The Senate may in turn transmit its own recommendation to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Functions of the UCC are as follows: recommend curricular policy for consideration by the Academic Senate; advise the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs concerning curricular policy; advise the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs on appeals relative to actions taken by college curriculum committees; advise the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs on curricular matters affecting more than one college; advise on broad curricular matters referred to it by the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs; to review programs developed in colleges to insure that they meet the curricular and programmatic policy of the University; and engage in program review as required.
Committee Chair
Elected by General Faculty (two-year term) from among candidates nominated by the General Faculty Nominations Committee. The UCC Chair is an ex-officio voting member of the Academic Senate and a member of the Senate Executive Committee.
Type
Administrative
Meeting Times
Tuesdays
Membership
Faculty membership will include three members each from the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Natural Resources and Sciences and two members from the College of Professional Studies. Each college will nominate members from its college (at least two for each vacancy) who will then be elected by the University at large. College members will serve three-year overlapping terms.
Student membership will be four students, with at least one student selected from each college, appointed by the President of the Associated Students with the consent of the Student Legislative Council, to serve one-year terms.
EX OFFICIO, Nonvoting
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee Chair of Educational Policies Committee