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Meeting Dates for Fall 2023

  • October 6, 10-11am
  • November 3, 10-11am
  • December 1, 10-11am

 

    Members
    Roster Year
    2023-24
    Chair
    Members
    • Joshua Abboud, Member, 2024
    • Loka Ashwood, Member, 2026
    • Nicholas Nguyen, Member, 2025
    • Jennifer Scarduzio, Member, 2024
    • Melissa Stein, Member, 2024
    • Keiko Tanaka, Chair, 2024
    • Irina Vorobieva, Member, 2025
    • Ronald Wilhelm, Member, 2025
    • Stacey Greenwell, Member
    • Joe Martin, Member, 2026
    • Hongbin Zhang, Member, 2026
    • Adam Bohland, Member
    • RaeAnne Pearson, Member
    • Shauna Morgan, Member
    • Molly Reynolds, Member
    • Mike Shanks, Ex-Officio Voting, 2025
    Charter
    1.4.2.15

    The SUKCEC shall exercise the following functions:

    1. It shall recommend to the Senate Council procedures and guidelines for designing and
      submitting course proposals for implementing the program.
    2. It shall recommend to the Senate Council policies by which courses may receive UK
      Core designation.
    3. If called upon by Senate to do, it shall also broadly communicate these policies to all
      undergraduate colleges. 
    4. It shall recommend to the Senate Council all courses which are proposed to the
      University Senate to fulfill the program requirements.
    5. It shall maintain long-term oversight of the program, including periodic course review and
      program assessment to ensure that the program fulfills the learning outcomes.
    6. It shall recommend to the Senate Council the deletion of courses (or pairs of courses)
      from the program that no longer seem appropriate to the program, and recommend to
      colleges or departments, through the Chair, such changes concerning teaching and
      content as it deems necessary or appropriate.
    7. It shall continue to work to enhance the program and assert the program’s centrality to
      the undergraduate curriculum through involvement in university-wide planning and policy
      discussions related to the program.
    8. Upon the recommendation of the Undergraduate Council or upon its own initiative, it
      shall develop and propose to the Undergraduate Council changes in the structure of the
      program or in the requirements necessary to complete the program
    9. It shall report individual cases of temporary waivers of or temporary substitutions for
      program requirements to the Undergraduate Council.
    10. It shall set policies for the granting of credit to transfer students for courses taken which
      are equivalent to those in the program and it shall communicate these policies to all
      undergraduate colleges (SR 9.19) on campus.
    NAME DEPARTMENT AREA TERM END
    Keiko Tanaka (Chair) Community & Leadership Development Global Dynamics 2024
    Joshua Abboud Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies Composition & Communication 2024
    Loka Ashwood Sociology Community, Culture & Citizenship in the USA 2026
    Joe Martin Information Science Composition & Communication 2026
    Nicholas Nguyen Mathematics Quantitative Foundations 2025
    Jennifer Scarduzio Communication Inquiry: Social Sciences 2024
    Melissa Stein Gender and Women's Studies Inquiry: Humanities 2024
    Irina Voro Music Inquiry: Arts & Creativity 2025
    Ronald Wilhelm Physics & Astronomy Inquiry: Natural, Physical & Math Sciences 2025
    Hongbin Zhang Biostatistics Statistical Inferential Reasoning 2026
    *Adam Bohland Undergraduate Admission Nonvoting ex officio member n/a
    *Stacey Greenwell University Libraries Nonvoting ex officio member n/a
    *RaeAnne Pearson Institutional Effectiveness Nonvoting ex officio member n/a
    *Shauna Morgan CELT/English Nonvoting ex officio member n/a
    *Molly Reynolds Transformative Learning Nonvoting ex officio member n/a
        Student Member 2024
        Student Member 2024