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Curriculum Committee Bylaws

Approved by Curriculum Committee June 04, 2025

The Curriculum Committee reports to the Associate Dean for Professional Education and the faculty. The committee meets as needed, but normally every two to four weeks. The committee manages an orderly and systematic review of curriculum structure, content, and outcomes. This review includes assurances for coordination of course material, identification of content omission or unnecessary repetition, identification of outdated or unessential content, and recommendation of a reasonable course load for students.

The committee systematically reviews the curriculum and individual courses at regular intervals to determine the appropriateness of content emphasis and proper sequencing, so as to provide recommendations for the optimal environment for learning. The committee is responsible for reviewing data on learning outcomes and student satisfaction with the curriculum. The committee is responsible for assuring that outcome measures of learning are systematically applied as a means of continuous quality improvement.

The committee has the authority from the faculty to consider the concerns or problems presented by the students after bringing them to the attention of the Associate Dean for Professional Education or the Assistant Dean for Curricular Affairs. The committee may act or respond to only those issues or problems that relate directly to curriculum structure, content and outcomes.

Items requiring decision-making by the committee require submission of supporting documentation to the Chair for distribution and review prior to discussion at meetings. These decision items include, but are not limited to: new course proposals, changes in existing courses that require committee review, changes in curricular sequencing that require committee review, and actions requiring full faculty vote.

The voting members of the committee are composed of a faculty member from each of the departments, a faculty member representing each of the following areas (all campuses; experiential education; personal and professional development; professional practice skills lab; , a practicing pharmacist and two students selected from each of the professional degree classes.

The Chair and Vice-Chair are appointed by the Dean from the current pool of committee members. The Chair will serve for a term of 3 years. If the Chair position is vacated, the Vice-Chair will assume responsibility for the committee until a new Chair is appointed by the Dean.

Ex-officio members include the Associate Dean for Professional Education, the Assistant Dean for Curricular Affairs, , an Instructional Designer,, and the Library Liaison.

The committee is able to conduct business which requires a vote when there are at least six voting committee members present, not including the Chair or Chair’s designee, and the number of student members is not greater than the number of faculty members.

Representatives on the Committee are: