University Curriculum Council

Charge and Membership

The University Curriculum Council, a statutory body established by the Faculty Senate in order to discharge the Faculty Senate's responsibilities with respect to curricular matters, is the final organization in a system of committees composed of departmental curriculum committees, college curriculum committees, and the University Curriculum Council itself. The function of the University Curriculum Council is to make recommendations in curricular matters that include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:

  1. Addition, relocation, and deletion of academic programs and degrees;
  2. the schedule of program review and the review process itself;
  3. after formal review, the quality and priority of existing academic programs;
  4. addition, deletion, and changes in courses;
  5. academic program or department name changes and addition, deletion, and changes of master curriculum file prefixes, and major codes;
  6. academic requirements; and
  7. implementation and maintenance of the General Education program.

The Curriculum Council is the final recommending voice in curricular matters. Its recommendations go through the Provost to the President for final approval.

The University Curriculum Council is organized into four Standing Committees: Program, Program Review, Individual Course, and General Education. The Program Committee is concerned with addition, and first follow-up of new programs, as well as deletion, relocation, Faculty Handbook Revised November 2022 108 and changes in existing academic programs, degrees, master curriculum file prefixes, and major codes. The Review Committee is concerned with cyclic review and evaluation of existing programs. The Individual Course Committee is concerned with coordination at the university level of addition, deletion, and changes in all individual course offerings. The General Education Committee is concerned with the implementation and maintenance of the General Education Program. If issues concerning educational and program requirements cannot be assigned to a standing committee, they will be reviewed by a special committee appointed by the chair. When dealing with graduate programs, the Curriculum Council and its committees work with the Graduate Council.

This committee reports to the Executive Vice President and Provost with authority delegated by Faculty Senate.

Composition

Faculty
30 Faculty – Thirty faculty members, among whom are all members of the Educational Policy and Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate, the vice chair of the Faculty Senate, and four faculty representatives of the Graduate Council: three members of the Curriculum Committee of the Graduate Council who are cross-appointed to the Program Committee of UCC and the chairperson of the Graduate Council
Students
2 Graduate Students
5 Undergraduate Students
Administrative
15 Administrators
• The deans or designees of the following Colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Scripps, Patton, Russ, Fine Arts, Health Sciences and Professions, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, University College, Honors Tutorial College, Graduate College, and the Voinovich School; and the director or designee of the Center for International Studies; one administrator must be cross-appointed to the Program Committee of UCC and the Graduate Council Curriculum Committee;
• one regional campus dean, chosen by said deans as their representative;
• a member of the Alden Library staff
1 Ex-Officio - One representative of the Provost's Office.

Committee Roster

Ex-Officio

Sarah Poggione
poggione@ohio.edu
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Faculty

Jonathan Agensky
agensky@ohio.edu

Janna Chimeli
chimelij@ohio.edu

Michele Clouse
clousem@ohio.edu
History

Debra Cox
coxd2@ohio.edu

Todd Eisworth
eisworth@ohio.edu
Associate Professor, Math

Jodie Foster
gerts@ohio.edu

Ann Bainbridge Frymier, Ed.D.
frymier@ohio.edu
Director, Professor

Ellen Gordon
gordone@ohio.edu
Assistant Professor, Analytics & Information Systems Department

Sara Hartman
hartmans@ohio.edu
Education

Dr. Pramod Kanwar
kanwar@ohio.edu
Professor of Mathematics

Jennie Klein
kleinj1@ohio.edu
Professor, Art History

Bruce Martin
martinc2@ohio.edu

Jim McKean
mckean@ohio.edu
Associate Professor, Law Enforcement

Brenda Miller
millerb6@ohio.edu
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Michelle O'Malley
haugh@ohio.edu

Beth Quitslund
quitslun@ohio.edu
English

Nikhil Sathe
sathe@ohio.edu

Tamanna Shah, Ph.D.
shaht@ohio.edu
Assistant Professor of Instruction for Sociology

Marci Shepard
shepardm@ohio.edu

Jennifer Smith
smithj33@ohio.edu
Fine Arts

Spencer Smith
smithsj@ohio.edu

Gregory Springer
springeg@ohio.edu

Lijing Yang
yangl@ohio.edu
Counseling and Higher Education

Administrators

Chad Boeninger
boeninge@ohio.edu
University Libraries

Sherleena Buchman
buchmans@ohio.edu
Assistant Professor, Nursing

Karla Hackenmiller
hackenmi@ohio.edu

Allyson Hallman-Thrasher
hallman@ohio.edu
Teacher Education

David Juedes
juedes@ohio.edu
Associate Dean for Academics, Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of Avionics

Greg Newton
newtong@ohio.edu
Professor, Media Arts & Studies

Dr. Hannah Nissen
nissen@ohio.edu
Dean of Campus and Community Relations

Beth Novak
ban@ohio.edu
Associate Dean;
Director of Studies, HTC Media Arts and Studies

Connie Patterson
patterc1@ohio.edu
Associate Dean, Education

Brittany Peterson, Ph.D.
petersob@ohio.edu
Associate Professor

Ruger Porter
porterw1@ohio.edu
Biomedical Sciences

Nukhet Sandal
sandal@ohio.edu
War and Peace Studies, Political Science

Paul Valentine
valentine@ohio.edu

Graduate Students

Lydia Asiedu
la48922@ohio.edu

Joshua Osondu
jo751020@ohio.edu
Sustainable Living Hub Graduate Assistant

Undergraduate Students

Colton Gibbs-Dunlap
cg650522@ohio.edu
LGBTQIA+ Commissioner

Lola Morano
lm443122@ohio.edu
Senator for the Honors Tutorial College

Donald Theisen
dt927122@ohio.edu
Governmental Affairs Commissioner

All University committees follow the academic-year calendar.

All students serve one-year terms. Faculty, administrators, and staff generally serve three-year terms. Ex-Officio appointments have voting privileges unless otherwise noted.

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