Curriculum

Composition

Elected from Senate
18 Senators (including 5 student members and at least 2 convocation members)

Ex Officio
Chancellor
President
University Librarian
An associate vice-president academic, as designated by the Academic Vice-President
Director, First Nations House of Learning
Director of Continuing Education
One Curriculum Committee Chair from each Faculty
Chair, Senate Admissions Committee
Registrar (non-voting)

Quorum: 9 voting members (approved by Senate, 16 May 2006) (revised by Senate, 12 November 2014)

Terms of Reference

• To consider proposals from Faculties for new, changed, and deleted courses, programs of study, degrees, and other credentials and to make recommendations thereon to Senate (Senate minutes, 16 May 2006).
• To keep under review the policies and programs of the University with respect to continuing education and life-long learning activities (Senate minutes, 22 July 2020).
• To monitor Senate’s policy on expanding the availability of degrees and other credentials through part-time study, and to make recommendations thereon to Senate (Senate minutes, 16 May 2006).
• To recommend, where appropriate, an order of priority for the implementation of the recommendations of the Committee (Senate minutes, 22 May 1968).
• To consider proposals from Faculties for changes, additions, or deletions to material presented on degree and diploma parchments, and on students’ transcripts of academic record (Senate minutes, 16 May 2007).
• To review advancement requirements for academic programs throughout the University, including both new programs and changes to existing programs, and to make recommendations to Senate (Senate minutes, 15 May 2013).

Membership

Elected from Senate
Dr. Shannon Bredin
Dr. Andrea Dulay
Dr. Peter Englezos
Dr. Benjamin Goold
Dr. Sathish Gopalakrishnan
Dr. Robert Kozak
Dr. Suzie Lavallee
Dr. Charles Menzies
Dr. Ingrid Price
Dr. Catherine D. Rawn (Chair)
Salva Sherif (Student) (Vice-Chair)
Dr. Santokh Singh
Dr. Austin Uzama
Jacky Xue (Student)
Solomon Yi-Kieran (Student)
William Zhu (Student)
Vacancy (2)

Ex Officio
Chancellor
President
Dr. Kathryn Accurso, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Education
Dr. Simon Bates, Director of Continuing Education/Associate Vice-President Academic, as designated by the Academic Vice-President
Dr. Sandra Brown, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Dr. Patrick Culbert, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Forestry
Dr. Joanne Fox, Chair, Senate Admissions Committee
Dr. Cheryl Holmes, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Norm Hutchinson, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Prof. Carol Jaeger, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Applied Science
Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Hedy Law, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Arts
Dr. Susan Parker, University Librarian
Elicia Salzberg, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
Dr. Joely Viveiros, Director, First Nations House of Learning
Dr. Eli Whitney, Curriculum Committee Chair, Faculty of Dentistry
Vacancy, Curriculum Committee Chair, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Dr. Rella Ng, Registrar (non-voting)

Meeting Schedule

Minutes from Previous Meetings

For meeting minutes prior to September 2023, please contact vancouver.senate@ubc.ca.