coe-fac: End of Fall Curriculum Update

[Brigid B Flannery]

Faculty,

Hope you had a good break in December and have unburied for all this "weather". This email will update you to the curriculum happenings from Fall term and some expectations/dates for Winter.


·         Permanent Course and Program Review during Fall 2016

·         Academic Extension

·         EDUC Courses and Requirements

·         Senate Policies: Graduate hybrid courses

·         Curriculum Committee Membership and Resources

·         New education librarian

Permanent Course and Program Review during Fall 2016

Course Review. The UO is still using CourseLeaf. All courses can be reviewed throughout the year through CourseLeaf Management System (https://nextcatalog.uoregon.edu/courseadmin/).

One course, EDST 225 School and Representation in Film (Expedite),  was reviewed by the COE CC.  This is a permanent course that as requesting approval to count for UO multicultural requirement: Approved to move forward to Dean and UOCC.
Six courses associated with the Lead minor were approved as well as a set of revised courses from EMPL DEd.

The following were approved by the Senate (Full report at https://registrar.uoregon.edu/faculty-staff/curriculum-reports ):

·         The title change for EDST 663: Fronteras Pedagógicas: Education and Immigration
The due date for course submissions for review this winter is Feb 3.

Program Review.
Four programs we reviewed and approved by COE this fall. Prevention Science MS and PhD Programs (change in number of credits for the program) and EMPL DEd Program (request to offer the program outside of Oregon); CPSY PhD program (change in number of credits for the program); and EMPL leadership minor.  The Leadership minor was approved with the recommendation to a) consider use of 4xx/5xx courses, and to explore the GPA requirements for the program to be sure they are rigorous but competitive.

The following were approved by the Senate (Full report at https://registrar.uoregon.edu/faculty-staff/curriculum-reports ):

·         Certificate in Educational Foundations: Secondary

·         Reduction in the required credits within the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Counseling Psychology from 175 to 165 credits.

·         Curriculum changes to the Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science degrees in Prevention Science.

·         Hybrid delivery of the Doctor of Education degree program in Educational Leadership to students outside the state of Oregon.
The due date for program submissions for review this winter is Feb 22.

Academic Extension
There were four course requests for approval for Academic Extension courses.

·         EDLD 608 Critical Issues (CCR3): Building Leadership Skills to Improve Schools by Solving Critical Educational Problems (1 cr) Offered Fall, winter and spring

·         EDLD 608 Critical Issues-Based Leadership Institute: Creating a College and Career Readiness System (1 cr)
Just a quick reminder to faculty. When you approve an AE course at the department level you are indicting that the course meets your department standards for course content and level of rigor. These courses will be on the participant's transcripts with your department/program prefix and in most cases a graduate credit.

EDUC Courses and Requirements
The Curriculum Committee has been charged by The Dean to review the EDUC coursework and requirements based on the budgetary process and the request for waivers recently received by the committee. They will begin this work in winter term.

Senate Policies
The senate last year approved an UG policy on hybrid online courses.  This year the Senate approved US16/17-05: Policy on Graduate Online & Hybrid Courses: Student engagement (Effective Fall 2017). Available at http://senate.uoregon.edu/2016/10/11/us1617-05-graduate-online-hybrid-courses-policy-proposal/

COE Curriculum Committee and Curriculum Resources
Your committee representatives are listed below. I strongly recommend that you keep them informed of any course or program modifications or additions.

·         EMPL: Keith Zvoch, Jo Smith

·         EDST: Audrey Lucero, Jeanne Hall

·         SPECS: Chris Murray, Angie Whalen

·         CPHS: Deanna Linville-Knobelspiesse, Kathy Moxley-South
The COE Curriculum Resources are available on the COE Governance page: https://coedocs.uoregon.edu/display/governance/COE+Governance+and+Policies

On this site you will find such things as:

·         Current syllabi information

·         Approved COE Curriculum policy

·         EDUC courses

·         Calendars of COE program and course process
There are a number of forms and policies that people often look for but have difficulty finding. I have temporarily made a section on the Governance page titles "Forms and Policies" that has some of these. If there are others we should add let Mercedes know (mercedr at uoregon.edu<mailto:mercedr at uoregon.edu>) and we will try and locate and link it.

UO Education Librarian

We have a new Education Librarian Katherine Donaldson . Thank you Katie Lenn for all your work over all these years!!!

Her contact information is
email:  kdonalds at uoregon.edu<mailto:kdonalds at uoregon.edu>
Phone:  541-346-4132
  https://library.uoregon.edu/users/kdonalds


Thanks for all the work by faculty and staff to improve our programs and courses. If you have curriculum questions, check in with your Program Director, Department Head, COE Curriculum Committee representative or schedule a time to meet with me if necessary.

Brigid

K. Brigid Flannery
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Education
1215 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1215
541-346-2496
brigidf at uoregon.edu<mailto:brigidf at uoregon.edu>

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