7.6  COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Membership*

Charge

The Committee on Undergraduate Education shall consist of fourteen (14) voting members appointed by the ACC from each of the following colleges:  Business and Economics (1), Fairhaven (1), Fine and Performing Arts (1), Huxley (1), Humanities and Social Sciences (2), Science and Technology (1), Woodring (1), and the Library (1); one faculty member from the Academic Coordinating Commission (1), one student appointed by the Associated Students’ Board (1), the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (1), the Director of the Office of Institutional Assessment, Research, and Testing (1), and the Director of the University Writing Program** (1)

**Currently designates Director of Writing Instruction Support

Chair:  The chairperson of the Committee shall be elected from among its membership at the first meeting of Fall Quarter.

Reportage: The Committee on Undergraduate Education meets five times a quarter or more often as required, usually on Thursdays at 4 pm.  Sufficient copies of the approved minutes of each meeting shall be forwarded to ACC via the Office of the Faculty Senate (MS9020, OM350) within twenty-one days of the meeting.  The Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education shall provide clerical support as necessary.

§    Advise the Academic Coordinating Commission on all curriculum matters related to General Education, including the acceptance of courses for listing as fulfilling General University Requirements (GURs) and oversight of the Writing Proficiency (WP) requirement.

§    Promote the goals of a liberal education in general, and writing and general education goals in particular, within the academic community. 

§    Periodically review these educational goals and assess the degree to which these goals have been achieved.  These spheres of assessment include the University, colleges, and departments.  The Committee on Undergraduate Education shall communicate its findings, and recommendations for improvement, to the ACC and the appropriate units.

§    Work in cooperation with and with support from the offices of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; the Office of institutional Assessment, Research, and Testing; and the University Writing Program.

§    Report to the ACC.