Standing College Committees

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The College of Education has a variety of standing committees to advise the Dean and Associate Deans on specific issues, with committee reports due to the Dean’s Office in June of each academic year. As of 2023-2024, the following are the College’s standing committees:

Advisory to the Dean

• Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Education (DEME) Committee
  The DEME Committee builds on our long tradition of excellence and our commitment to diversity, equity, and social justice. The committee evaluates ways in which a higher level of equity and social justice can be developed and fostered in the College and across the campus. DEME advises the dean on diversity and equity issues and it continues to evaluate mechanisms for accurately capturing faculty and staff diversity-related teaching, research, and service opportunities.
  
  2023-2024 DEME Membership
  Erica Mason, SPED, Chair​​​​​​
  Adeoye Adeyemo, EPOL
  Stacy Clemmons, SAAO
  Melissa Goodnight, EPSY
  Chang-kyu Kwon, EPOL
  Rachel McMillian, C&I
  Theo Moton, EPOL
  Giselle Martinez Negrette, C&I
  Kaylin Ratner, EPSY
  Emily Tarconish, SPED
  Yuli Alcantar, Sr, Elementary Education
  ​​​​​​​Genesis Rivera, Sr, Middle Grades Education
  Angelique Evans, grad student EPOL
  ​​​​​​​Molly Galloway, grad student EPOL
  ​​​​​​​Aly Stephenson, Dean's Office Events
  Amy Summers, Dean's Office
   
• External Awards Committee
  The work of this committee builds the foundation for enhanced external recognition of the college’s faculty and their scholarly achievements.  This committee identifies external awards, honors, and recognitions to be targeted, conducts a thorough evaluation of award criteria, timing of communications, and nomination/selection process for targeted awards, honors, and recognition, and develops nominations, reaching out as necessary to secure letters of support. 
  
  2023-2024 External Awards Committee Membership
  Kiel Christianson, EPSY
  Matt Lambert, SPED​​​​​​​
  Micki Ostrosky, C&I​​​​​​​
  Yoon Pak, EPOL
  ​​​​​​​​​Chrystalla Mouza, ex-officio
  ​​​​​​​Danielle Ward, staff
   
• Faculty & Staff Awards Committee 
  This committee thoroughly evaluates college award criteria, timing of communications, and nomination/selection processes for College of Education award winners, including eligibility criteria, nomination processes, and award limits, and makes recommendations to the college leadership team for possible changes to policy or practice. Members work closely with the department awards committees to proactively seek out nominations from qualified faculty, staff, and students for college and campus awards. Members identify deserving College of Education nominees for campus undergraduate/graduate teaching awards, mentoring awards, and staff awards, and they review nominations and make selections and recommendations to the Dean.
  
  2023-2024 Faculty & Staff Awards Committee Membership
  Patrick Rice, EPOL, Chair
  Hannah Duran, OUP (CS award winner)
  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Jess Gladstone, EPSY
  Jon Hale, C&I/EPOL
  ​​​​​​​Meghan Peach, SPED (AP award winner 2022)​​​​​​​
  Michele Schutz, SPED
  Meghan Best, SPED doctoral student​​​​​​​
  Parth Shastri, C&I master's student (for EPSY)
  Danielle Ward, staff
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• Advisory Committee for Space & Buildings
  The Space Committee is advisory to the dean regarding the allocation of space utilized and/or managed by the College of Education. It identifies and documents current space allocations, reviews space survey results and makes recommendations for current space needs and requests, makes changes to current space allocations, and identifies maintenance and repair needs.  Additionally, the committee reviews and recommends improvements to the College’s Policy and Procedures for the Allocation and Use of Space (1996).
  
  2023-2024 Advisory Committee for Space & Buildings Membership
  Jeremy Jones, ITP/Facilities, Co-Chair
  Jessica Li, Associate Dean for Research, Co-Chair
  Amanda Brown, Dean's Office
  Kiel Christianson, EPSY
  Matt Lambert, SPED
  Micki Ostrosky, C&I
  Yoon Pak, EPOL
  Jeffry Royce, Facilities Manager
  Chrystalla Mouza, ex-officio
  Danielle Ward, meeting coordinator

Advisory to the Academic Associate Deans

• Academic Programs Committee (undergraduate and graduate)
  The Academic Programs Committee is appointed to serve in an advisory capacity to the dean, and as a liaison between the dean, the academic associate deans, the Committee of Department Executives (CODE), the Graduate College, and the General University Policy Committee for all new programmatic developments at the undergraduate and graduate level.  The committee addresses policy and procedural matters related to the advancement of undergraduate and graduate education in the College. 
  
  2023-2024 Academic Programs Committee Membership
  Liv Davila, EPOL, Co-chair
  Kary Zarate, SPED, Co-chair
  Lorenzo Baber, EPOL
  ​​​​​​​Chad Lane, EPSY
  Emma Mercier, C&I
  Nick Leonardis, C&I doctoral student
  Jill Donnel, ex-officio
  Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, ex-officio​​​​​​​
  Jessica Li, ex-officio
  ​​​​​​​Sarah McCarthey, ex-officio
  ​​​​​​​​​​​​Karla Moller, ex-officio
  ​​​​​​​Lori Fuller, staff
  Heather Zorn, ex-officio awards
  Lori Fuller, Award Staff
  Linda Stimpson, Award Staff

Advisory to the Associate Dean for Research

• College Research Committee
  This committee advises the associate dean for research on research issues and research climate in the college, reflecting the breadth of faculty research interests.  It nurtures the research climate in the college through formal and informal activities and recommends and provides guidance on activities of the Bureau of Educational Research, and reviews and recommends nominations to the dean for college scholars and fellows and Center for Advanced Study (CAS) fellows. CRC has two subcommittees; the subcommittee for awards convenes to oversee the review and recommendation processes related to the annual Hardie Award competitions, and the subcommittee for human subjects and research ethics meets to resolve human subject issues or concerns that may be brought to the attention of the College by campus IRB or the community, and reviews and responds to research ethics issues if/as they arise.
  
  2023-2024 College Research Committee Membership
  ​​​​​​​Amber Ray, SPED, Co-chair
  Rachel Roegman, EPOL, Co-chair
  Osly Flores, EPOL
  Jarrett Lewis, EPSY
  ​​​Helen Neville, EPSY
  ​​​​​​Asif Wilson, C&I​​​​​​​
  ​​​​​​​Yan Xia, EPSY
  H.M. Kuneyl, EPOL doctoral student
  Jessica Li, ex-officio
  ​​​​​​​Beth Niswander, ex-officio
  ​​​​​​​Danielle Ward, staff