Membership
- Chair, without vote, elected by the ten elected committee members specified below
- Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, or designee
- Dean of the Carol Grotnes Belk Library or designee, without vote
- University Registrar or designee, without vote
- Executive 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 Dr. Jo Watts Williams 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 Associate Teaching Professor, Teaching Professor, 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. The Chair's term begins the Fall semester. Faculty may not serve more than two consecutive terms as Chair. The faculty member serving as Chair must have achieved the rank of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, or Professor. During its April meeting in the second year of the incumbent Chair's term, committee members will elect a Chair-Elect. Candidates can be current committee members, incoming committee members, or individuals nominated by Academic Council's Committee on Committees. The Chair-Elect will shadow the incumbent Chair in the Chair's third year before assuming Chair duties in the next Academic Calendar year.
Duties of the Chair
- Act as the presiding officer at meetings of the University Curriculum Committee
- Work with the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, 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 proposers, 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