NEASC Academic Program Committee
4. Academic Program Committee
Summary Standard: The institution’s academic programs are consistent with and serve to fulfill its mission and purposes. The institution works systematically and effectively to plan, provide, oversee, evaluate, improve, and assure the academic quality and integrity of its academic programs and the credits and degrees awarded. The institution develops the systematic means to understand how and what students are learning and to use the evidence obtained to improve the academic program. For detailed standards, please click here.
Committee Co-Chairs:
John Voyer, Professor of Business Administration, School of Business
Mark Steege, Professor of Human Development, College of Education and Human Development
Susan Campbell, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs
Undergraduate and Major-Minor Concentration Sub-Committee
Chair: James Suleiman, Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, School of Business
Rose Marasco, Professor of Art, College of Arts and Sciences
Bud McGrath, Professor of English, College of Arts and Sciences
Margaret Moore, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Eve Raimon, Professor, Lewiston-Auburn College
James Smith, Associate Professor of Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology
General Education Sub-Committee
Co-chairs: Susan McWilliams, Assistant Provost, Office of Undergraduate Education AND Judy Tizon, Associate Provost, Office of Undergraduate Education, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Peter Aicher, Faculty Scholar in General Education, Professor, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
Rose Cleary, Director, Honors Program
Lee Goldsberry, Associate Professor, Professional Education, College of Education and Human Development
Christy Hammer, Associate Professor, Lewiston-Auburn College
Helen Peake-Godin, Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Steve Romanoff, Director, Russell Scholars Program
Michael Shaughnessy, Professor of Art, College of Arts and Sciences
James Smith, Associate Professor of Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Theresa Theodose, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Bruce Thompson, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate and Major-Minor Concentration Sub-Committee
Chair: Mark Steege, Professor, Human Resource Development,College of Education and Human Development
Mary Sloan, Director & Assistant Dean of Graduate Education
Ardis Cameron, Professor of American & New England Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Vincent Faherty, Director and Professor, School of Social Work, College of Arts and Sciences
Marjorie Lawson, Associate Professor, Nursing and Graduate Nursing Coordinator, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Dahlia Lynn, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, Muskie School of Public Service
Luisa Scott, Coordinator of Graduate Programs, Lewiston-Auburn College
John Voyer, Professor of Business Administration, School of Business
Betty Lou Whitford, Dean, College of Education and Human Development
Integrity in Award of Academic Credit and Major-Concentration Sub-Committee
Chair: Monique LaRocque, Associate Dean, Off-campus Programs and Director, Summer and Winter Sessions
Wayne Cowart, Professor of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Joyce Lapping, Director, Prior Learning Assessment
Heidi Noyce, Associate Director, Transfer Affairs
Steve Rand, Registrar
John Wright, Dean, School of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Jeannine Uzzi, Chair & Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
Assessment of Student Learning Sub-Committee
Chair: Ann Dean, Associate Professor of English, College of Arts and Sciences and Director of College Writing
James Bennett, Associate Professor of Finance, School of Business
Susan Campbell, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Rose Cleary, Director, Honors Program
Mohammed el-Taha, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Susan King, Director, Academic Assessment
Lynne Miller, Professor of Professional Education, College of Education and Human Development
Helen Peake-Godin, Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Committee Documents
will be listed and linked as they become available
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This page last updated on December 7, 2009
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