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Distance and Blended Learning Committee

Deadlines to Submit Majority Online Course Proposal to Committee for the 2022-2023 Academic Year:

  • 9/6/2022– Proposals due to the Committee for Spring 2023 semester delivery
  • 11/4/2022 – Proposals due to the Committee for Summer 2023 semester delivery
  • 1/27/2023 – Proposals due to the Committee for Fall 2023 semester delivery

Information on Majority Online Course or Program Proposals

Proposals should be submitted via UMW’s Curriculum Inventory Management System (CIM). For more information about the system, please visit: https://provost.umw.edu/umw-curriculum-approval-process/. Once submitted, the proposal is routed to your department chair for approval before it is sent to the committee. Allow 1-2 weeks for the proposal to be routed to the committee for review.

Meeting Dates for the 2022-2023 Academic Year:

  • September 9, 2022
  • November 11, 2022
  • Feb 3, 2023
  • April 14, 2023

Approved Majority Online Courses

  • The Registrar maintains a current list of approved majority online courses.  Please contact the Registrar for more information.

Members

  • 2023 Will Mackintosh, Associate Professor, CAS, chair
  • 2023 Mukesh Srivastava, Professor, COB
  • 2024 Suzie Kim, Assistant Professor, ARTH, CAS, secretary
  • 2025 Melody Denhere, Associate Professor, MATH, CAS
  • 2025 Janie Lee, Associate Professor, ENLI, CAS

Ex-Officio Members

  • Jerry Slezak, Director of Digital Learning Technologies
  • Paul Boger, Representative appointed by the University Librarian
  • Hall Cheshire, Chief Information Officer
  • Juliette Landphair, Vice President for Student Affairs (or representative)
  • Victoria Russell, Director of the Center for Teaching

Duties

2.8.3 The committee’s duties are to :

.1 Maintain the quality and integrity of the curriculum for courses and programs offered in a majority online format;

.2 Establish procedures and criteria for approval, deletion, and alteration of courses and programs offered in a majority online format;

.3 Review and approve or reject proposals from the various departments for courses to be offered in a majority online format;

.4 Review and evaluate majority online courses on a scheduled and on-going basis to ensure that courses continue to represent the tradition of quality education at UMW, making suggestions for course revisions or removal from the curriculum as appropriate;

.5 Perform any and all additional duties pertaining to this committee at the request of the committee’s chair;

.6 Make information available regarding the procedures and deadlines for proposing courses to the appropriate oversight committee; and

.7 Perform other duties as assigned by the UFC.