January 22, 2024

UUCC  

Committee Minutes 01-22-2024 

Wayne A. Reaud Building Room 202       

Attending: Chair, Ashwini Kucknoor, (A&S); Adam Nemmers (A&S), Sujing Wang (A&S),  Ping He (Eng); John Gossage (Eng); Debra Greschner (Fine Arts); QingJiang Yao (Fine Arts); Jane Liu (Faculty Senate); Ken Young (Education), Elizabeth Casey (CID rep); Katherine Sprott (Education),    

Absent: Komal Karani (Business)  

Via Proxy: No records 

Ex-Officio Attending: Garrick Harden (A&S), Samuel Jator, Associate Provost; Theresa Hefner-Babb, Exec. Dir., Elizabeth Lea (UAC), Venki Uddameri (Chair, Eng CC) 

Ex-Officio Absent: Bryan Proksch, Julia Yoo, Dawn Short (UAC), David Short (Registrar), Ricardo Tovar-Silos (Business) 

Executive Associate Academic Affairs: Shelly Traxler 

Guests: N/A 

Presiding: Garrick (Brad) Harden 

Call to Order: 3:35 pm 

Approval of Minutes:  

• N/A

 Business:  First order of business- Brad asked the new members to introduce themselves and talked about the sub-committees. Duties of each of the sub-committees was discussed.  

Policy and by laws: to develop policies and procedures 

Core curriculum assessment: to check if we are following TSUS policies and our own policies while approving proposals. 

Proposal review: looking at the proposals for new programs, along with Hefnar-Babb’s review. 

Brad mentioned that the sub-committees need to have meetings regularly, separate from the UUCC monthly meetings, and that chairs of each sub-committee should call for those meetings outside of the general committee meetings. 

 Name of the assessment committee was changed to “Core curriculum sub-committee”

• Greschner asked questions about proposal review sub-committee; about the review of all proposals before the general committee meeting.
• Chairs were asked to have had at least one meeting before the Feb 10^th
• Greschner asked for a protocol for the departmental representative attending the meeting, and Harden said that it will be taken care of.
• Next meeting will be on Feb 19th

Adjourn: Motion to Adjourn at 3.55 pm by Nemmers; Seconded by Greschner and was unanimously approved. 

Respectfully submitted: 

Ashwini Kucknoor, Biology