Role of a Curriculum Committee
Learn about the important role of a curriculum committee in managing and updating college courses and programs to ensure compliance with state regulations and accrediting agencies. Discover how the committee facilitates curriculum changes, initiates planning, and maintains quality education standards.
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What Does The Curriculum Committee Do?
What Does the Curriculum Committee Do? Curriculum comes in two basic types: Courses Programs (degrees and certificates) We have something like 500 courses and 100 programs in our catalog.
What Does the Curriculum Committee Do? The curriculum committee helps the college tend to and care for its curriculum, i.e., its courses and programs: We help update things to keep them fresh We help prune old things that have outlived their time (deactivation) We help new stuff take root The committee itself never officially proposes changes to the college curriculum. It reviews such proposals from faculty and votes on whether to approve them.
What Does the Curriculum Committee Do? But the committee does not play a purely passive role in managing the college s curriculum, e.g.: We reach out to departments to initiate advance planning. We act as project manager for large-scale curriculum projects, such as getting courses approved for Area F. We alert faculty when changes at the state level require updates on our part, such as when a TMC changes.
What Does the Curriculum Committee Do? But what we do with our curriculum is not just up to us. Some examples: State regulations dictate how the unit value of a course must be determined. State regulations dictate when we can put a prereq on a course. State regulations dictate what we must require from students in order to award them an AA/AS degree. It s the committee s responsibility to ensure that, as the college builds its curriculum, it does so within the constraints imposed on us by the state and others, such as accrediting agencies.
What Does the Curriculum Committee Do? That means it s our responsibility to be aware of what all the outside constraints on us are which is not easy! The Program and Course Approval Handbook 8thedition (PCAH) runs to 137 pages. We ll do some further trainings this year to help committee members learn more about what is allowed and what is not.
What Does the Curriculum Committee Do? But not everything which is technically allowed is a good idea. It s also our responsibility to ensure that our courses and programs truly provide value to the student. Carrying out that responsibility is more about applying common sense and making a point of asking basic questions.
