Roles & Responsibilities of Curriculum Committees

Kevin Parker

Karen Johnson

Jane Patton

The foundation of curriculum in law & regs

Any questions?

Resources

• The binder• The Academic Senate website: http://www.

academicsenate.cc.ca.us• Site for Curriculum developers:

http://www.curriculum.cc.ca.us/

• The ASCCC curriculum committee (Mark Lieu is next chair)

Committee Orientation or Retreat

• Who• When• Why• How• Content

– Goals– Operating procedures– Meeting schedule, deadlines

Committee responsibilities• Expectations of members

• Role of students on curriculum committee

Committee’s standards• What works well?

• What doesn’t work well?

• How can operations be improved?

Committee decision-making• Keeping the wolves at bay :-)

• Who decides: Faculty? Staff? Administrators?

• With whom rest the final decisions?

Curriculum committee + academic senate

• Roles of each: How autonomous is the curriculum committee?

• Working together: building rapport between the bodies

• Tips/ideas

Challenges (a.k.a. opportunities)

Discussion• What tips do you have for effective

committees?