Program and Policy Committee

General Purpose

To serve as a policy review and recommending body for policies, guidelines, and all programmatic matters pertaining to the College of Education (COE), unless expressly addressed by other COE Standing Committees and Task Forces.

Specific Responsibilities

• 1. Review and recommend to the faculty on matters pertaining to the general COE organization and governance. 

  2. Review and recommend to the faculty on all matters of curriculum including proposals for the establishment, modification or discontinuance of COE programs and courses (P&P syllabus review form) following the PSU Curricular Change Process for the purpose of ongoing program improvement.

  3. Review and recommend to the faculty policies and procedures pertaining to requirements of and graduation from all programs in the College of Education.

  4. Promote quality of academic programs through support of regular internal program reviews.

  5. Review and recommend to the faculty and dean resource allocations to support program improvement.

  6. Form ad hoc committees as needed to carry out the committee’s responsibilities.

Membership

Voting members will include seven faculty members (i.e: 1 SPED, 3 C&I, 2 ELP, 1 COUN), elected or appointed proportionately from departments, and one representative from the Recruitment and Admissions Services team, serving a two-year term. The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs will serve in an ex-officio capacity.

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