Subcommittees

• Educational Policy Committee should define a specific category of subcommittee designed to undertake a special initiative. These should be limited in time (1-2 years) with clearly defined tasks that can be undertaken in a specified time frame.
• The subcommittee should submit a plan of work (including a calendar) at the end of the academic year of its plans for the coming year.
• Educational Policy Committee will review those plans and liaise where necessary with the subcommittee chairs.
• The subcommittee should not continue beyond the end of the second year without having its status reviewed in the context of the overall structure of Educational Policy Committee’s subcommittees.
• Each subcommittee chair will attend an Educational Policy Committee meeting during the academic year in order to provide oversight of their work.
• The Chair of Educational Policy Committee will chair the Connections SubCommittee and serve on the Curriculum Evaluation Sub-Committee.
• Continuing Subcommittees:
  • Curriculum Support
  • Curriculum Evaluation
  • Connections
  • Global Education Advisory
  • Writing
  • First-Year Seminar
  • Undergraduate Research

(April 23, 2009, and August 28, 2009, June 1, 2010 Ed Pol Minutes)

Curriculum Support Subcommittee  (Disbanded on 10-1-12)

Because the Educational Policy committee has had little to charge the subcommittee with and has asked for little input in the last couple of years, the subcommittee was disbanded by  approval of  the Educational Policy Committee. (October 1, 2012 Ed Pol Minutes)

• Work with Educational Policy Committee and Provost’s Office to ensure a planned approach to the professional development of faculty in support of the curriculum. The Subcommittee will advise the Provost’s Office in determining and allocating funding for professional development and curriculum support, in planning workshops and other professional development activities relevant to the curriculum. The intention for this Subcommittee is to advise and assist rather than to undertake faculty development work.
• With the Provost, look at ongoing and systematic ways of encouraging the development of new Faculty Connections proposals.
• Liaise with those offices, such as Academic Advising, Filene Center, Global Education Center, and LIS that share responsibility with faculty for students’ education in order to develop plans for faculty development
• Develop a survey to gather information on important priorities for curriculum development and faculty support and a feedback form for faculty workshops. Develop a long-term planning process and mechanisms to ensure coordination and continuity of priorities.

• 2012-2013 Members: Ann Sears (Co-Chair), Vicki Bartolini (Co-Chair), Chuck Straley, Gail Sahar (Associate Provost) and Scott Hamlin (Director of Instruction and Research, LIS)

Curriculum Evaluation Subcommittee

• The Subcommittee will work with the Provost’s Office, Educational Policy Committee, and the faculty to design a five-year curriculum evaluation plan. The Evaluation Sub- committee will review Banner data reports on the curriculum, data on the Natural Science and Foreign Language requirements, and data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) on Connections and Infusion. The inclusion of reports, following discussion of the data by faculty with interest and responsibility in the area, offers a model for keeping regular oversight of the curriculum. The Subcommittee plans to work with the Registrar and faculty on other Banner data reports in the future.
• Reporting practices for assessing different elements of the curriculum was completed for Connections, Natural Sciences, and Foreign Languages. Discussion will follow with faculty in those areas.
• Science data are in the process of being collected. A student survey is pending to determine why students are making the choices they are making regarding science.

• 2012-2013 Members: Jani Benoit, Scott Gelber, Barbara Darling-Smith, Joel Relihan (Associate Provost), Audrey Adam (Director of Institutional Research), Pat Santilli (Registrar)

Connections Subcommittee

• The charge of the reestablished Connections Subcommittee is to consider and recommend the approval (or disapproval) of Student-Initiated Connection proposals. Additionally, the Subcommittee is to bring general issues of policy questions arising from review of the proposals to the Educational Policy Committee. (April 23, 2009, Ed Pol Minutes, 2008-2009, Ed Pol Annual Report)

• 2012-2013 Members: Javier Trevino (Chair), Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Dolita Cathcart, Jason Goodman, and Felicia Stewart '14

• First Year Seminar

• Inspire a cohort of engaged, intellectually curious students who are prepared to assume responsibility for their education and their lives.
• Introduce high standards and expectations for college-level academic skills. Students will practice reading, oral communication, written communication and information fluency.
• Assist students in negotiating the transition to independent young adulthood. Students will be introduced to college-level success strategies, academic support and other resources on campus, and students will interact with a faculty advisor who is also the FYS instructor, a staff mentor, preceptors and student monitors.

• 2012-2013 Steering Committee Members: Joel Relihan (Coordinator), Deborah Cato, Gabriela Torres, Andy Howard, and Jason Goodman

Global Education Advisory Subcommittee

The charge of the Subcommittee is to review, discuss and advise on new initiatives sponsored by the Center for Global Education.

• Review new faculty-led study abroad programs.
• Advise the Dean of Center for Global Education on policies and procedure that impact study abroad.
• Present and discuss concerns of academic divisions regarding global education matters
• Educational Policy Committee will review all proposals for faculty led programs once they have been considered by Global Education Advisory Subcommittee for preliminary review and comment, including those in their first iteration.
• 2012-2013 Members:  Donna Kerner (Chair), Matthew Allen, Darlene Boroviak, Matt Evans, Hector Medina, Bianca Cody-Murphy, Mark Hoesly (Dean, Center for Global Education) Gail Sahar (Associate Provost)

Undergraduate Research Subcommittee

Promote and advance undergraduate research and scholarship opportunities at Wheaton.

• 2011-2012 Members: Kathy Morgan (Chair), Thandi Buthelezi, Montse Perez-Toribio, Zeph Stickney (College Archivist), Scott Hamlin (Director of Research and Instruction, LIS), and Judi Razee (Administrative Assistant, Filene Center)

Writing Subcommittee

Nurture the efforts and interest of faculty for increasing the writing skills of students and faculty.

Towards that end:

• Initiate and manage events (workshops, presentations, etc.) and otherwise gather and disseminate relevant ideas and information to faculty and students.
• Further promote and support peer writing tutors as a key resource.
• Work with academic departments to steward the college-wide effort regarding the importance of writing skills and recent developments in the teaching and assessment of writing.
• 2012-2013 Members: Lisa Lebduska (Chair), Connie Compana, Jason Goodman (fall 2012), Karen McCormack, Jason Reiss (spring), Ellen McBreen