Committees

Steering Committee

The steering committee is composed of five faculty members, a senior academic services staff member and an associate provost:

• Thomas Rocklin, Professor and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
• Kenneth Brown, Associate Professor, Management and Organizations
• Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Associate Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
• Pat Folsom, Assistant Provost for Enrollment Services; Director, Academic Advising Center
• Norbert Pienta, Associate Professor, Chemistry; Director, Center for Teaching
• Mary Trachsel, Associate Professor, Rhetoric
• Elizabeth Whitt, Professor and Faculty Fellow

Subcommittees

Five broad themes of undergraduate education at the University of Iowa will be addressed in the self-study report. A subcommittee of faculty, staff, and students has been appointed to address each theme:

• Common Academic Experiences: The General Education Curriculum
• Cultivating Student Potential: Support for Teaching and Learning
• Education within the Major
• Entry and Transition: Becoming a University of Iowa Student
• Getting Involved: Education beyond the Classroom
• Learning Environments

Subcommittee Reports

• Common Academic Experiences: The General Education Curriculum
• Cultivating Student Potential: Support for Teaching and Learning
• Education within the Major
• Entry and Transition: Becoming a University of Iowa Student
• Getting Involved: Education beyond the Classroom
• Learning Environments

Subcommittee Survey Reports

• DEO Survey
• General Education Program Survey
• Survey of Learning Spaces
• UI Majors and Programs

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