Curricular Affairs
View the Committee on Curricular Affairs duties in the Standing Rules of the Faculty Senate governance documents.
Meeting Information:
Please visit your committee’s Teams space or reach out to your committee leaders for location, time and connection information.
If you support a senator administratively, such as an executive assistant, please contact us to request to join the relevant Teams and be added to our other communications.
Dates:
Curriculum Proposals Due | Council Reports Due | Senate Council, Curriculum Report Publication | Plenary & Standing Committee Meetings |
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May 9, 2025 | May 13, 2025 | *May 27, 2025 | June 24, 2025 |
August 14, 2025 | August 12, 2025 | August 26, 2025 | September 9, 2025 |
September 18, 2025 | September 16, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | October 14, 2025 |
October 23, 2025 | October 21, 2025 | November 4, 2025 | November 18, 2025 |
December 18, 2025 | December 16, 2025 | January 6, 2026 | January 20, 2026 REMOTE ONLY Plenary and Committees |
January 29, 2026 | January 27, 2026 | February 10, 2026 | February 24, 2026 REMOTE ONLY Plenary and Committees |
March 5, 2026 | March 3, 2026 | March 17, 2026 | March 31, 2026 |
April 2, 2026 | April 3, 2026 | April 14, 2026 | April 28, 2026 |
May 9, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | *May 26, 2026 | *June 23, 2026 |
*Tentative
Membership:
Senators: To download/copy your committee’s roster, please visit the “Roster” folder in your committee’s Teams.
Unit Name | Full Name | Email Address | Membership Type | Committee Position | Comments |
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Admin | Adams, Jeff | jza184@psu.edu | Ex Officio Administrative Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (ix) A representative from the Office of Undergraduate Education |
College of Arts and Architecture | Aeschbacher, Peter | pja12@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State New Kensington | Amador, Melba | mva5567@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of Nursing | Barton, Jennifer | jlp153@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | Behler, Anne | acb10@psu.edu | Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | - | NON-VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (iv) Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications or representative (FA24 in place of Joel Burkholder) |
College of Health and Human Development | Belanger, Jonna J | jjb37@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | Committee Chair | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | Cole, Andy | cac13@psu.edu | Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | - | NON-VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (v) Chair of the Graduate Council Committee on Programs and Courses |
College of Agricultural Sciences | Coupland, John Neil | jnc3@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of the Liberal Arts | Hanses, Mathias | mkh5452@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | Harper, Betty J | bjh17@psu.edu | Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | - | NON-VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (vii) A representative from the Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research |
Penn State Altoona | Hayford, Harold Scott | hsh1@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State Erie | Kumhera, Glenn Joseph | gjk19@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of the Liberal Arts | Linch, Amy | atl3@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State York | Martin, Jesse Christopher | jcm6791@psu.edu | Student Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of Education | Mccloskey, Andrea Vujan | avm11@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | Committee Vice Chair | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of Agricultural Sciences | Mcnellis, Timothy W | twm4@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State Harrisburg | Mudrick, Hannah Beth | hxm99@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State Berks | Pfeifer Reitz, Dawn | dpr15@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Eberly College of Science | Purdy Drew, Kirstin R | krp15@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of Information Sciences and Technology | Raahemifar, Kaamran | kvr5517@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | Rabb, Robert | rzr5557@psu.edu | Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | - | NON-VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State Harrisburg | Rios, Catherine Anne | car33@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences | Robinson, Brandi J. | bjn151@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | Schulenberg, Janet | jks142@psu.edu | Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | - | NON-VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (vii) A representative from the Division of Undergraduate Studies |
College of Communications | Shea, Maura | mes19@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Eberly College of Science | Sirakaya, Beatrice | bxs205@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | Slattery, Maggie | mjs436@psu.edu | Standing Rules-Required Committee Member | - | NON-VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (x) A representative from the Office for General Education |
Smeal College of Business | Slot, Johanna H | jhs33@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of Engineering | Sottile, Brad | bjs5332@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | Committee Vice Chair | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State Dubois | Thomas, Emily Hope | eht5002@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (i) At least 17 elected faculty senators including one faculty senator from (...) the University College |
College of Health and Human Development | Thomas, Kristin L | klt16@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
Penn State Abington | Yang, Yi | yzy1@psu.edu | Faculty Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs |
College of the Liberal Arts | York, Jude Peter | jpy5444@psu.edu | Student Senator | - | VOTING, Curricular Affairs; (ii) One undergraduate student senator |