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Committees

University General Education Committee


Membership 2009-2010

  • Charlene Burns (2012), Committee Chair; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
  • James Phillips (2012), Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry
  • Anthony Keys (2011), Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems
  • Cheryl Brandt (2011), Associate Professor, Department of Nursing
  • Wilson Taylor (2010), Professor, Department of Biology
  • Wayne Carroll (2010), Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
  • Lauren Likkel (2010), Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Abraham Nahm (2010), Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing
  • Vacant (2010)
  • Susan Turell, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Studies (ex-officio)
  • Brandon Blaisdell, Student Representative
  • Brittany Smith, Student Representative
  • Jake Johnson, Student Representative

Function:

  1. Recommend criteria for General Education courses and develop the purposes and intended learning outcomes for general education. The criteria, purposes, and intended learning outcomes will be forwarded to the University Senate Academic Policies Committee and the University Senate for approval.
  2. Approve courses for inclusion in the General Education Program, periodically reviewing existing general education courses for reapproval.
  3. Review yearly the UWEC catalog copy regarding General Education.
  4. Work with the office of Academic Affairs to annually evaluate the GE program’s course availability.
  5. Evaluate the GE program’s effectiveness against the General Education goals as passed by the University Senate using information from the Plan for Assessment of Student Academic Achievement, periodically.

Membership:

  1. Faculty representatives as follows: six from the College of Arts and Sciences; two from the College of Business; two from the College of Education and Human Sciences; and one from the College of Nursing and Health Sciences
  2. Provost/Vice Chancellor or Designee
  3. One student

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