The Graduate Curriculum Committee reviews curricular issues related to graduate education, including proposals for creating, revising, and deleting graduate programs, certificates, and tracks, and courses.
Meeting Schedule
On April 7, 2016,the Faculty Senate Steering Committee established Wednesday as the standard meeting day and 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. as the standard meeting time. The standard meeting time does not prevent the curricular committees from scheduling a longer or additional meeting to address time-sensitive deadlines. The specific meeting schedule for the committee is maintained by the College of Graduate Studies at Graduate Curriculum Committee Website.
Committee Members
Daniel Paulson, Chair
College of Sciences
Psychology
Email: Paulson@ucf.edu
Emily Stettner
College of Graduate Studies
Email: Emily.Stettner@ucf.edu
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Patrick LiKamWa
College of Optics and Photonics; Faculty Representative -
Elsie Olan
College of Community Innovation and Education-School of Teacher Education; Senate Representative -
Axel Schulzgen
College of Optics and Photonics; Senate Representative -
Jihe Zhao
College of Medicine-Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences; Administrator -
Alan Fyall
Rosen College of Hospitality Management-Tourism, Events & Attractions; Ex Officio -
Ali Gordon
College of Engineering and Computer Science-Graduate Affairs; Ex Officio -
Sara Duff
University Libraries-Acquisitions & Collections; Faculty Representative -
Suha Saleh
College of Health Professions and Sciences-Dean's Office; Ex Officio -
Sasan Fathpour
College of Optics and Photonics; Faculty Representative; Co-chair, University Promotion and Tenure Committee -
Valeriya Shapoval
Rosen College of Hospitality Management-Hospitality Services; Faculty Representative; Vice Chair-Graduate Council; Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee -
John Weishampel
College of Graduate Studies-Administration; Ex Officio -
Kelly Kibler
College of Engineering and Computer Science-Civil Environmental & Construction Engineering; Faculty Representative -
Kerstin Hamann
College of Sciences-Dean's Office; Administrator -
Anastasia Salter
College of Arts and Humanities-Dean's Office; Administrator -
Kevin Brown
College of Health Professions and Sciences-School of Social Work; Faculty Representative -
Julia Listengarten
College of Graduate Studies- Administration; Ex Officio -
Ronnie Zimmerman
College of Community Innovation and Education- School of Public Administration; Office of the Dean; Administrator -
Ghaith Rabadi
Institute for Simulation and Training; Faculty Representative -
Rohan Jowallah
Division of Digital Learning- Senior Instructional Designer; Faculty Representative -
Sean Moore
College of Medicine- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences; Faculty Representative -
Susan Mac Leod Dyess
College of Nursing-Nursing Systems; Faculty Representative; Administrator -
Daniel Paulson
College of Sciences- Psychology; Faculty Representative; Vice Chair- Grad Council; Chair- Grad Curriculum Committee -
Pradeep Bhardwaj
College of Business Administration-Dean's Office; Ex Officio -
Michael Caputo
College of Business- Economics; Faculty Representative -
Sandy Galura
College of Nursing- Nursing Systems; Faculty Representative
Meeting Materials
The official agendas, materials distributed, and approved minutes and materials for each meeting are distributed and maintained by the College of Graduate Studies and can found on the Graduate Curriculum Committee Website.
Membership
The Graduate Curriculum Committee shall consist of one graduate faculty member from each academic unit, at least four of whom are members of the Faculty Senate, and a graduate student. The graduate student representative will be appointed by the chair of the council based on recommendations made by the president of the Graduate Student Association and the dean of the College of Graduate Studies. The ex officio members include the dean of the College of Graduate Studies (or designee) and the assistant or associate dean (or designee) whose responsibilities include graduate curricular issues from each of the colleges. The council vice chair will serve as the chair of the Graduate Curriculum Committee. The vice chair shall be elected annually by its membership at the first meeting of the committee after the new Faculty Senate is elected, normally in the early fall term.Terms of service shall be three years, staggered.
Duties and Responsibilities
- To review curricular issues related to graduate education and make recommendations to the dean of the College of Graduate Studies.
- To review changes to existing graduate programs (such as hours, thesis/non-thesis options).
- To review new tracks or options to existing graduate programs and deletions of tracks or options.
- To review new certificate programs and the deletion of existing certificate programs.
- To review all requests for additions, revisions, and deletions of graduate and special topic courses.
- To review all matters referred by the dean of the College of Graduate Studies.