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Instruction & Academic Programs Subcommittee

Subcommittee Charge:

The committee chair (*) will serves as a liaison for the subcommittee to the Steering Committee.

They will make recommendations to the following questions:

  1. How do you make the best use of technology to bring students and teachers together rather than distance them?
  2. How do we serve students whose education and life have been disproportionately disrupted due to the pandemic?
  3. How do we assess what academic programs serve students in a post-pandemic reality and what programs are not? 
  4. What trauma-informed pedagogies might we adopt?
  5. In what ways could we use technology to create a more literate citizenry?
  6. How do we mandate change practices and reward them?
  7. What concepts of belonging, mattering, and validation can we incorporate into pedagogy?
  8. How do we envision the assessment of teaching and learning in a post-pandemic context?
  9. What courses can faculty transform to include career and life design?
  10. How do students partner with faculty to collaborate on problem-solving and project-based learning?
  11. How do we support and remove barriers for international students?
  12. What role might CEGE play in program development?
  13. What certificate programs, expanded hands-on education, internships would support career exploration and career-ready students? 
  14. Does course scheduling look the same post-pandemically?

Subcommittee Members:
 

  • *Clare Weber, Deputy Provost and Vice Provost, Academic Programs 
  • Jake Zhu, Dean, Palm Desert Campus 
  • Dorota Huizinga, Associate Provost, Academic Research and Dean, Graduate Studies
  • Lesley Davidson-Boyd, Interim Vice President, Undergraduate Studies
  • Bibiana Diaz, Executive Director, Faculty Center for Excellence 
  • Monideepa Becerra, Interim Director, Teaching Resource Center 
  • Brad Owen, Director of Academic Technologies & Innovation/Chief Academic Technologies Officer
  • Thomas Girshin, Coordinator, Writing Intensive Coordinator
  • Diane Podolske, Director, Community Engagement
  • Tatiana Karmanova, Associate Vice Provost & Dean, College of Extended and Global Education
  • Leatha Elsdon, Director, Facilities Planning, Design & Construction, Facilities Planning & Management
  • Hyunkyoung Oh, International Faculty Advisor, College of Extended and Global Education
  • Beth Steffel, Faculty Senate Representative, College of Arts and Letters
     
  • Jeremy Aikin, Faculty Senate Representative, College of Natural Sciences
  • John Reitzel, Faculty Senate Representative, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Taewon Yang, Faculty Senate Representative, Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration
  • Janelle Gilbert, Faculty Senate Representative, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Jaime Espinoza, Staff Representative, Veterans Success Center
  • Daisy Ramos, Student Representative

Meeting Minutes