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 2025-2026

College of Business
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Sarah Marsh, Associate Dean, Chair
Linda Matuszewski, Accountancy
Yao Zheng, Finance
James Burton, Management
Valeria Penttinen, Marketing
Amin Vahedian, Operations Management and Information Systems
Undergraduate Student TBD
Margee Myles, LRS Undergraduate Student Success Center, ex officio
Jason Underwood, Accreditation, Strategy and Learning Innovation, ex officio

Graduate Curriculum Committee
Sarah Marsh, Associate Dean, Chair
Candice Hux, Accountancy
Lei Zhou, Finance
Mahesh Subramony, Management
Andy  Jeon, Marketing
Andrew Setterstrom, Operations Management and Information Systems
Anthoony Preston, Senior Assistant Dean
Graduate Student TBD
Ann Dzuranin, Accountancy, Graduate Council representative, ex officio
Margee Myles, LRS Undergraduate Student Success Center, ex officio
Jason Underwood, Accreditation, Strategy and Learning Innovation, ex officio

College of Education
Nicholas Grahavec, Chair, Kinesiology and Physical Education
Carolyn Pluim, Interim Dean, Academic Affairs
Cynthia Taines, Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
Diana Bonilla, Curriculum and Instruction
Quortne Hutchins, Counseling, Adult and Higher Education
Vicki Collins, Educational Technology, Research and Assessment
Michelle Sands, Special and Early Education
Kim Green, Director of Student Success
Alex Owens, Assistant Director of Student Success

College of Engineering and Engineering Technology

College of Health and Human Sciences
Sherrill Morris, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Rosanne Thomas, Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Hyun-Mee Joung, Family and Consumer Sciences
Kunal Patel, Health Studies
Amanda McCarthy, Interdisciplinary Health Professions
Anitha Saravanan, Nursing

College of Law
Dan McConkie, Co-Chair
Jeanna  Hunter, Co-Chair
Therese Clarke Arado
David Taylor
Wendy Vaughn
Mary McDonnell

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Amanda Durik, Associate Dean, Chair
Ferald Bryan, Communication
Jeff Einboden, English
Chris Goodman, Public Administration
Alastair Fletcher, Mathematical Sciences
Nicole LaDue, Earth, Atmosphere and Environment
Ches Thurber, Political Science
Rebekah Kohli, CLAS Advising, ex officio
Leslie Matuszewich, Senior Associate Dean, ex officio
Suzanne Hogan, Curricular Administrative Aide

College of Visual and Performing Arts
Ed Klonoski, Associate Dean
Eric Johnson, Music
Gibson Cima, Theatre and Dance
Michael Barnes, Theatre and Dance

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