ACADEMIC, APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
2004 – 2005 Academic Year
COMMITTEE: University
Curriculum Committee
1. Membership
(include ex-officio members).
·
Ellen
Arnold [catalog secretary]
·
Cheryl
Estes [vice chair]
·
Ron
Graziani
·
Tim
Hudson [chair]
·
Arunas
Juska
·
Linda
Kean
·
David
Long
·
Ron
Mitchelson
·
Rita
Reaves
·
Michael
Schinasi
·
Elizabeth
Smith
Diane Coltraine attended all of the 2004
– 2005 UCC meetings as a guest. She also worked extensively to review the
materials considered at each meeting
No
student representative regularly attended our meetings for the entire year.
2. Meeting
Dates (include members present*).
·
9 Sept 2004 [organizational meeting – no regular
business]
·
23 Sept 2004
·
14 Oct 2004
·
28 Oct 2004
·
11 Nov 2004
·
9 Dec 2004
·
13 Jan 2005
·
27 Jan 2005
·
10 Feb 2005
·
24 Feb 2005
·
10 Mar 2005
·
24 Mar 2005
3. Subcommittees
established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work).
No official subcommittees established.
However, various members carried out committee work per request of committee
chair. In particular, each committee member individually worked to prepare for
the “big meeting” of 24 February 2005. This meeting lasted nearly five hours,
and the catalog minutes for this meeting ran to about 200 pages.
4. Accomplishments
during the year, especially as addressed through committee goals. Please include recommendations made to any
University agency other than the
·
Approved
numerous curricular changes from every college/school at ECU. Formed concise
criteria for the justification, course objectives, etc. that we used to judge
new and revised courses.
·
Implemented
a liaison system that involved a representative from each college (department
in the College of Arts & Sciences) identified to assist each unit with pushing
their changes through the curricular revision process. We held an informational
seminar at the beginning of the 2004 Fall Semester for the liaisons. The
Committee on Committees approved our implementation of this model for the 2004
– 2005 year, and offered to revist the matter (and possibly modify the UCC
charge) during the 2005 – 2006 year, if necessary. The committee members feel
that our liaison system worked well and is a good model to keep for the future.
·
Vice-Chancellor
Rita Reaves secured laptop computers for the UCC chair and secretary. This
greatly assisted the functioning of the committee and saved an enormous amount
of paper.
5. Reports to the
Date of Report to FS Business Presented FS Resolution
#
10/12/2004 minutes of 9/9/04 04 –
26
minutes of 9/23/04
11/9/2004 minutes of 10/14/04 04 – 31
minutes
of 10/28/04
12/07/2004 minutes of 11/11/04 04 – 33
1/25/2005 minutes of 12/9/04 05 – 01
minutes
of 1/13/05
2/22/2005 minutes of 1/27/05 05 – 06
minutes of 2/10/05
3/22/2005 minutes of 2/24/05 05 – 14
minutes
of 3/10/05
4/19/2005 minutes of 3/24/05 05 – xx
[minutes not yet posted]
6. Business carried over to next year
(list in priority order).
·
Maintain
the liaison model used during the 2004 – 2005 academic year. Organize
informational seminar for the liaisons and UCC members as early in the 2005 –
2006 academic year as possible (certainly prior to the first UCC meeting). It
is important to hold this early, before units begin work on curricular
revisions.
·
Determine
requirements for Undergraduate Certificates. We have published criteria for
graduate certificates, but none exist for undergraduate ones.
7. Evaluation
of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the committee's
work during the year).
A.
Charge: adequate
B. Personnel: exceptional – all faculty
members were conscientious and
dedicated
to in the best interests of the university. The student representative did not
attend any meeting after October 2004.
C. Attendance: all members were prompt in
attendance and all attended most
meetings;
only absences were due to legitimate conflicts
D. Responsibilities: extreme; this is a very busy and
demanding committee on
which
to serve; our revision of the submission forms and
website
instructions will hopefully smooth the process for
next
year
E. Activities: normal
8. Suggestion(s)
to the Chair of the Faculty and/or
·
In
order to maintain the online agendas that the committee has used for the past
few years to disseminate the curricular details to the committee membership and
the wider university community, we believe that the committee needs regular secretarial
assistance between September and March for each academic year, or else a teaching
release for the UCC chair (one course per fall & spring semesters).
9. Does
the Committee’s organizational meeting next year need to be earlier than the
date set this year?
No.
Chairperson Tim Hudson
Secretary Ellen Arnold