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:
- Addition, relocation, and deletion of academic programs and degrees;
- the schedule of program review and the review process itself;
- after formal review, the quality and priority of existing academic programs;
- addition, deletion, and changes in courses;
- academic program or department name changes and addition, deletion, and changes of master curriculum file prefixes, and major codes;
- academic requirements; and
- 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
5 Undergraduate Students
• 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