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Standing College Committees
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 2024-2025, the following are the College’s standing committees:
- Academic Programs Committee
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 levels, as well as to address policy and procedural matters related to the advancement of Undergraduate and graduate education in the College.
2024-2025 Academic Programs Committee (Voting Members)
Liv Davila, EPOL, co-chair
Kary Zarate, SPED, co-chair
Jon Hale, EPOL/C&I
Chad Lane, EPSY
Emma Mercier, C&I
2024-2025 Academic Program Committee (Non-Voting Members)
Alexandra Richmond, SPED doctoral student
Jill Donnel, ex officio
Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, ex officio
Jessica Li, ex officio
Curtis Mason, ex officio
Karla Möller, exex officio
Lori Fuller, staff
Heather Zorn, ex officio awards
Lori Fuller, award staff
Linda Stimpson, award staff
- 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).
2024-2025 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
Helen Neville, C&I
Yoon Pak, EPOL
Jeffry Royce, Facilities Manager
Chrystalla Mouza, ex officio
Danielle Ward, meeting coordinator
- Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Education (DEME) Committee
The work of the DEME Committee will build upon the work of previous years’ committees to place the College of Education as a central unit addressing the campus’s diversity and workplace wellness initiatives.
2024-2025 DEME Membership
Erica Mason, SPED, chair
Whitney Clark, EPSY doctoral student
Elizabeth Dyer, C&I
Scott Filkins, C&I
Liam Magee, EPOL
Aixa Marchand, EPSY
Jasmine Porter Rallins, EPOL doctoral student
Paula Posadas, undergraduate student
Kaylin Ratner, EPSY
Aly Stephenson, Dean’s Office
Roxanne Street, SAAO
Tamara Bertrand Jones, EPOL, ex officio
Theopolies Moton III, EPOL, ex officio
Amy Summers, Dean’s Office, staff
- Faculty & Staff Awards Committee (FSAC)
The Faculty and Staff Awards Committee thoroughly evaluates the award criteria, timing of communications, and nomination/selection processes for College of Education award winners, including eligibility criteria, nomination processes, and award limits; making recommendations to the College leadership team for possible changes to policy or practice.
2024-2025 Faculty & Staff Awards Committee Membership
Felecia Commodore, EPOL, chair
Cherie Avent, EPSY
Stacy Dymond, SPED
Amy Hager, HR
Stephanie Haas, HR
Jina Kang, C&I
Logan Pender, EPOL EdM student
Jerny Walls, EPSY doctoral student
Danielle Ward, staff
- 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.
2024-2025 College Research Committee Membership
Amber Ray, SPED, co-chair
Rachel Roegman, EPOL, co-chair
Lin Chen, EPSY
Lucie Culiax, C&I doctoral student
Gayithri Jayathirtha, C&I
Osly Flores, EPOL
Samantha Lindgren, EPOL
Malaika McKee, EPOL
Michele Schutz, SPED
Asif Wilson, C&I
Yan Xia, EPSY
Jessica Li, ex officio
Beth Niswander, ex officio
Danielle Ward, staff