General Education Council

Team By-Laws

(i) Composition

The General Education Council (GEC) consists of five faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences, one representing each of the five subject areas—Communication, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences—in General Education; one faculty member from each of the other academic units; Director of Undergraduate Studies, who oversees General Education (Ex Officio non-voting); a representative of the Academic Advising Council (Ex Officio non-voting); a Student Government representative, and the Provost or their designee (Ex Officio non-voting). Faculty must teach at least one undergraduate course per year or be a Librarian liaison to an undergraduate program to be eligible to serve on the GEC.

(ii) Responsibilities and Duties

Members of the GEC serve as a unified university entity to preserve and maintain academic integrity of the core curriculum for undergraduates, which includes general education and other university-wide curricular requirements that do not have a separate standing team. The GEC is responsible for oversight of curriculum and course offerings within the core curriculum, including assessment, and will report and recommend action to the Faculty Senate in collaboration with the Undergraduate Curriculum Team, when appropriate.

The GEC will collaborate with the Director of Undergraduate Studies on policy matters related to the administration of the program. The GEC will have primary responsibility for all curricular aspects of the General Education Program and is the unit-level review body for curricular proposals affecting general education and related university-wide curricular graduation requirements that do not have a separate standing team. As part of the assessment process for the core curriculum, the GEC may designate faculty with subject-matter expertise to participate, in addition to members of the GEC.