Membership
- Chair, without vote, elected by the ten elected committee members specified below
- Provost/Executive Vice President, or designee
- Dean and University Librarian, without vote
- Registrar, without vote
- Director of the Elon Core Curriculum
- Three elected teaching faculty members serving three-year terms, representing the College of Arts and Sciences, one each from Fine Arts and Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences
- Four elected teaching faculty members serving three-year terms, representing the following schools: one each from the Love School of Business, the School of Communications, the School of Education, and the School of Health Sciences
- Two at-large teaching faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences and one University wide at-large faculty member serving three-year terms, elected by the teaching faculty members
- At least seven of the ten elected teaching faculty members must have achieved the rank of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, or Professor.
- Faculty from the School of Law are excluded from service on this committee.
Chair
The Chair will serve a three-year term, beginning in Year Three of the three-year cycle for elected members outlined below. Faculty may not serve more than two terms as Chair within a ten-year period. The faculty member serving as Chair must have achieved the rank of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, or Professor. During its April meeting in Year One of the election cycle, committee members will elect a Chair. Candidates can be current committee members, incoming committee members, or individuals suggested by Academic Council's Committee on Committees. In Year Two, the Chair-Elect will shadow the outgoing Chair before assuming full Chair duties in Year Three.
Duties of the Chair
- Act as the presiding officer at meetings of the University Curriculum Committee
- Work with the Provost/Executive Vice President, or designee, to plan the agenda for meetings, based on: proposals that have been received at least two weeks before each meeting, charges from Academic Council, and any other issues that are curricular in nature that the University Curriculum Committee wishes to discuss
- Respond to questions from faculty planning a proposal
- Invite proponents, their chairs/program directors, and deans (or designees) to meetings that are pertinent to their proposals
- After each meeting, enter decisions of the University Curriculum Committee into the technology being used to manage document flow
- Report to the faculty, Academic Council, President, and Trustees (twice a year) on actions taken and respond to their questions
- Compile the annual report of the University Curriculum Committee
- Serve on Academic Council ex officio