College Curriculum Committees
(FS Bylaws, Article 5.2.1)

Membership to College Curriculum Committees

  • 5.2.1.1 The composition of the college curriculum committee shall be determined by the regular full-time faculty within each college. The dean's or the dean's designee, shall serve as chair of the committee
  • 5.2.1.2 Duties:
    1. Be responsible for studying, approving, disapproving, or returning for revision all proposals submitted by members of the college faculty or by department curriculum committees for establishing new courses, programs, or curricula, for deleting or substituting courses, and for changing existing courses, programs, or curricula.
    2. Submit all college proposals involving the general education program and new or revised undergraduate programs to the Baccalaureate Council or its appropriate standing committee with its recommendation.
    3. Submit all proposals involving new or revised graduate programs to the Graduate Council.
    4. Submit all proposals involving changes in the curriculum of the College of Law to the faculty of that college.
    5. Initiate curricular proposals.
    6. Subject to Article 4.1.5 of these bylaws, have final authority for the substitution, alteration, addition, or deletion of courses other than those involving the general education program. It shall report final recommendations on undergraduate curriculum matters to the Baccalaureate Council's standing committee on curriculum, and, on graduate curriculum matters, to the Graduate Council.

College Curriculum Committee Membership 2023-2024

  • College of Business
    Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
    Daewoo Park, UCC Chair and Associate Dean
    Linda Matuszewski, Accountancy
    Yao Zheng, Finance
    Devaki Rau, Management
    Ursula Sullivan, Marketing
    Amin Vahedian, Operations Management and Information Systems
    Jasmin Kenzie, undergraduate student representative, marketing major
    Jason Underwood, Executive Director, Accreditation, Strategy, and Learning Innovation (nonvoting)
    Margee Myles, Director, LRS Undergraduate Student Success Center (nonvoting)

    Graduate Curriculum Committee
    Daewoo Park, GCC Chair and Associate Dean
    Candice Hux, Accountancy
    Lei Zhou, Finance
    Mahesh Subramony, Management
    Elina Tang, Marketing
    Andrew Setterstrom, Operations Management a nd Information Systems
    Anthony Preston, Assistant Dean of Graduate Business Programs
    Tina Ramos, graduate student representative, MS Data Analytics major
    Jason Underwood, Executive Director, Accreditation, Strategy, and Learning Innovation (nonvoting)
    Margee Myles, Director, LRS Undergraduate Student Success Center (nonvoting)

  • College of Education
    David Walker, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
    Chris Lowe, Director for Student Success
    Alex Owens, Assistant Director for Student Success
    Allie Shirar, Curriculum Professional
    Peitao Zhu, Counseling and Higher Education
    Vicki Collins, Educational Technology, Research and Assessment
    Nick Grahovec, Kinesiology and Physical Education
    Cynthia Taines, Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
    James Cohen, Curriculum and Instruction
    James Chan, Special and Early Education

  • College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
    Mansour Tahernezhadi, Undergraduate Chair
    Reinaldo Moraga, Graduate Chair
    Hasan Ferdowsi, Electrical Engineering
    Ji-Chul Ryu, Mechatronics Engineering
    Brianno Coller, Mechanical Engineering
    Mahdi Vaezi, Engineering Technology
    Venu Korampally, Electrical Engineering
    Niechen Chen, Indutrial and Systems Engineering

  • College of Health and Human Sciences
    Kelly Fiala, Dean
    Nicole Holland, Academic Advising Director
    Rosanne Thomas (fall), Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
    Janet Olson (spring), Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
    Sarah Cosbey, Family and Consumer Science
    Julie Patterson, Health Studies
    Amanda McCarthy (faculty chair), Interdisciplinary Health Professions
    Marcia Cooke, School of Nursing
    Andrew Spring, Military Science
    Bolaji Elutilo, Graduate Student

  • College of Law
    Yolanda King, Associate Dean, Chair

  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    Amanda Durik, Associate Dean, Chair
    Stanley Arnold, History
    Jeff Einboden, English
    Alastair Fletcher, Mathematical Sciences
    Jeremy Groves, Economics
    Laurence Lurio, Physics
    Emily McKee, Anthropology
    Steven Estes, CLAS Advising, ex officio
    Leslie Matuszewich, Senior Associate Dean, ex officio

  • College of Visual and Performing Arts
    Paul Kassel, Dean (Fall)
    Ed Klonoski, Associate Dean (Spring)
    Gregory Barrett, Music
    Joseph Insley, Art and Design
    Stanton Davis, Theatre and Dance


Contact Us

University Council
Altgeld Hall 103

Benjamin Creed
President, Faculty Senate
Chair, University Council
bcreed@niu.edu

Pat Erickson
Administrative Assistant
pje@niu.edu

Linda Saborío
Faculty Advisory Council to the IBHE
lsaborio@niu.edu

Carrie Kortegast
Faculty Personnel Advisor
ckortegast@niu.edu

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