Membership
(a) One faculty member from each division with staggered terms. At least three members must be tenured.
(b) One student with junior status or higher appointed by the president of the student government with the advice and consent of the student senate.
(c) Ex-officio non-voting member: the Registrar
(d) The chair shall be elected from among the tenured faculty members.
(e) The chair shall be one of the representatives of the faculty to the Board of Trustees.
Responsibilities of the Education Policy and Curriculum Committee
(a) To study, evaluate, and make recommendations to the faculty concerning the addition and deletion or substantial alteration of courses and programs, majors and minors in all day, evening and weekend offerings of the college as proposed by department chairs.
(b) To coordinate and integrate the undergraduate and graduate courses, programs, and academic functions of the college.
(c) To recommend to the faculty policies and procedures.
(d) To communicate curricular and policy changes to the registrar in the manner and form the registrar requires.
(e) To convene an Academic Petitions Subcommittee to consider academic petitions. There will be four members of this subcommittee, three voting members chosen from the membership of EPCC and the Registrar as a non-voting member.
(f) To provide periodic updates to the Faculty Liaison Council.
Procedures and Forms:
- EPCC Proposals Forms – visit the Registrar’s Office faculty resources page.
- For the forms needed to propose Engaged Citizenship General Education Program designations visit the General Education – Proposing Courses page.
- Procedures – The deadline for all changes that affect majors, minors and courses for the next school year is October 1 . This deadline gives EPCC time to process the proposals, gives the Faculty time to consider them, and gives the Registrar’s Office enough time to enter the data into the computer before students register in the spring for courses for Fall of the next school year. Use only current forms. Do not use forms from previous years.
- All proposals must be sent by e-mail and by the department chair.
- CC the division chair on all proposals.
- All proposals must be submitted as Word documents. No PDFs will be accepted.
The following changes must be sent to EPCC.
- Course name changes
- Course description changes
- Course number changes
- Prerequisite changes
- Additions or deletions of courses
- All changes to the major/minor
Not all of these changes must go to the faculty, but all changes must be proposed to have a paper trail and the documentation necessary for the Registrar’s Office to complete its work.
Link to EPCC forms