2018-19 C14 Technology-Enhanced Education Oversight Committee

FUNCTION: To evaluate and formulate policy on technology-enhanced education and make recommendations on such matters to the Faculty Council and to the University's Steering and Strategic Policy Committees1 on Technology-Enhanced Education. To ensure that initiatives in technology-enhanced education further the University’s mission to be a university of the first rank by reviewing the following:

• programmatic proposals;
• technology-enhanced courses and curricula offered by the University and certificates and degrees associated with such
• academic quality of other on-line resources
• use of on-line materials for credit toward University degrees (including transfer credits and dual credits)
• overall impact of such offerings on workload, intellectual property, and promotion/tenure issues for faculty and instructional staff
• student issues, such as privacy

COMPOSITION: Five voting members of the General Faculty for three-year staggered terms appointed by the president through the regular procedures of the Committee on Committees, two staff members for two-year staggered terms from college or departmental student development/advising staff (and each from different colleges/schools), and three student members. The president shall appoint one from a panel of names submitted by the Senate of College Councils, one from a panel of names submitted by Student Government, and one from a panel of names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. The Graduate Student Assembly panel shall include at least one graduate student who is or has served as an assistant instructor or teaching assistant in an undergraduate course at the University (and all those on the list who meet this criterion shall be indicated). The students shall be from different colleges or schools. Each year the chair of Faculty Council shall appoint two voting members of Faculty Council for one-year terms. One of these faculty members should be from the C4-Educational Policy Committee and one from the Faculty Council Executive Committee. Each year the chair of the Graduate Assembly shall appoint one voting member from the Academic Committee of the Graduate Assembly for a one-year term. Each year the committee shall elect its own chair and vice chair from among the voting faculty members of the committee. Two members of the provost's senior staff shall serve as ex-officio members without vote. They should include the vice provost for higher education policy and the chair of the Steering Committee on Technology-Enhanced Education. The president will appoint three representatives from the following list to serve as administrative advisors without vote (only one representative per category):

Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited) 

Member E-mail Address Book (semi-colon delimited) 

This committee was created in the spring of 2014. For reference see D 11499-11503.