Curriculum Committee

Within the college the faculty, through its Curriculum Committee, will have a major role and a professional responsibility for formulation of recommendations upon which the academic administration will advise the President about curricula. The tasks of the committee are as follows:

To recommend new policies or courses of action as needed.
To receive and review new courses and programs. To review changes to existing courses and programs.
To review and evaluate the number, descriptions, credit hours, contact hours, course prerequisites, subject matter, and method of instruction.

Committee Members

Membership of the Curriculum Committee is representative of all areas of the college. The members for 2008-2009 are:

Jim Taggart, CIS, Chair
Bill Lemons , Business
Regina VanEpps, English
Susan DePhilippis, English as a Second Language
Myrna Keklak, Nursing, Allied Health, Physical Education
Keith Forrest , Arts/Humanities
Lynn Lessie, Social Science
Joe Jaloway, Math/Science
Daniel Matt, Culinary Arts
Ellen Splaver, Counselor
TBA, Librarian

Advisory:

Barbara Clark
Pat Gentile
Bruce Johns
Dr. Ron McArthur
Heather Peterson
Carmen Royal
Grant Wilinski
Anita Polanco

Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes and Reports - See the Venus Server for recent minutes.

Forms

Form A: New Programs or Courses (Word format)
Form B: Program or Course Change (Word format)

Membership - Voting

One full-time faculty member from each department, one counselor and one librarian.

Advisory

Senior Dean of Academic Affairs

Ex-officio

Dean of Instruction and Associate Dean of Academic Support Services. This committee may be charged by the President, the Senior Dean of Academic Affairs, and the Collegiate Assembly Executive Committee.

Reports

This committee shall distribute its minutes and reports to the President's office, Collegiate Assembly Executive Committee, Senior Dean of Academic Affairs, Education Association President, editor of the Atlantic Cape CommuniCator and to the permanent committee files which are maintained in the office of the Senior Dean of Academic Affairs.

Procedures

Programs offered at ACCC shall be responsive to the needs of the community's citizens, business and industry. They shall be established upon the basis of research and studies indicating that needs exist and shall be modified or discontinued as those needs change.

Academic departments may submit course proposals to the committee. Department review and approval by department faculty shall occur before the changes or proposals are submitted to the Curriculum Committee.

If a new course is to be offered for only one semester, Form C, entitled "New Course to be Offered One Time Only," must be completed and submitted to the Curriculum Committee. The course may not be offered a second time without submission of Form A, entitled, "New Programs and Courses," and the approval of the Curriculum Committee.

The Curriculum Committee has two subcommittees:

The General Education Committee shall make all recommendations to the Curriculum Committee regarding general education requirements and be responsible to review and evaluate the effectiveness of general education.

The Program Review Committee shall make recommendations regarding the processes of program review as well as oversee and review those program evaluations. Such reports shall be forwarded to the Curriculum Committee and then to the Senior Dean of Academic Affairs.

(as of March 2001 Collegiate Assembly)

Programs & Courses