University Curriculum Committee

Catherine Brid Nicholson (Chair), History Department, 2024-2026
Donald Marks (Secretary), Psychology-Doctoral Studies, 2024-2026
Raza Rafique, Management, 2024-2026
Joyce Qian Wang, Accounting & Finance, 2022-2025
Gail Verdi, Elementary & Bilingual Education, 2022-2025
Barbara Lee, Special Education & Literacy, 2022-2025
Janine Martins-Shannon, Psychology, 2022-2025
Matthew Mongelli, Chemistry & Physics, 2024-2026
Lucas Kirby, Biology, 2024-2026
Kathleen Curran, Health and Human Performance, 2024-2026
Jeffrey McCullough, Interior Design, 2024-2026
Camille Sherrod, Public Architecture, 2024-2026

Joy Moskovitz, Academic Affairs, 2024-2025, non-voting
Andrea Rosa, Registrar, 2024-2025, non-voting
Susan Ahern, Office of Assessment & Accreditation, 2024-2025, non-voting

This committee’s domain involves the university's policies, procedures, programmatic offerings, and curricular issues.

Standing Charges:

1. To routinely consider program documents reflective of curricula across the university and make recommendations regarding their approval to the University Senate in a timely fashion.
2. To maintain a broad institutional perspective in reviewing and evaluating programmatic proposals.
3. To make curricular policy recommendations consistent with the university's mission, the region's social and economic demographics, and budgetary and institutional resources issues.
4. To review overall curriculum procedures and make policy recommendations to the University Senate.
5. To serve as an arbiter in matters of curricular conflict between colleges.
6. To review specific curricula and programs that appear to deviate from approved goals or established standards.
7. To periodically review and recommend revising the Curriculum Procedures Document to the University Senate.
8. To fulfill any specific charges from the University Senate.
9. To make periodic reports, a mid-year progress report, and issue a final report to the University Senate at the end of the Academic Year.