Faculty Boards

The General Education Implementation Committee has developed the following definition of and policies for the Faculty Boards.

The Faculty Boards are faculty panels that will supervise the initiation and semester-by-semester operations of the various elements of the General Education program. These Boards will be appointed by the Dean for Undergraduate Studies in consultation with the Collegiate Deans. 

Faculty Board membership will be primarily tenured/tenure-track faculty members. Membership will come from across the campus: each Board will have membership comprised of representatives from the colleges and departments that offer General Education courses in the Board's relevant category and possibly membership from consumer colleges and departments. Each Board will also have as a member either the Dean or an Associate Dean from Undergraduate Studies. This practice will help ensure uniform application of policy and standards across Boards. The size of each Faculty Board should be kept small in order to assure efficiency and agility. Members’ terms on the Boards should be for a minimum of two years, with turnover that meets the needs of the board's work. 

The Faculty Boards include Writing, Mathematics/Analytic Reasoning, Oral Communication, History and Social Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Scholarship in Practice, Understanding Plural Societies/Cultural Competence, and Big Question (formerly I-Series) Courses. The Dean for Undergraduate Studies will post the membership of all boards and include the membership in the annual report to the General Education Committee of the Senate.

See the Faculty Boards implementation document for a list of each Board, its membership, and number of members.

The Boards will review and measure success of the program; they will also assess specific elements and requirements. The Boards will base their evaluation of new and existing courses for suitability in the new General Education categories on the extent to which they fulfill the learning outcome goals for each category, as well as on overall quality and potential effectiveness. The Boards will periodically review approved General Education courses and/or review learning outcomes assessments of the General Education categories.

Math/ Analytic Reasoning (gened-reasoning@umd.edu)

• Lasnik, Howard
  ARHU Linguistics
  lasnik@umd.edu
• Mellet, Antoine
  CMNS Math
  mellet@umd.edu
• Ramachandran, Niranjan
  CMNS Math
  atma@math.umd.edu
• Roberts, Douglas
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu

Writing (gened-writing@umd.edu)

• Enoch, Jessica
  ARHU English
  jenoch1@umd.edu
• Gournay, Isabelle
  ARCH Architecture
  gournay@umd.edu
• Roberts, Doug
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu
• Sullivan, Joseph
  AGNR Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
  jsull@umd.edu
• Wible, Scott
  ARHU English
  swible@umd.edu

Oral Communication (gened-oralcomm@umd.edu)

• Brighton, Stephen
  BSOS Anthropology
  sbrighto@umd.edu
• Cohen, William
  Chair
  UGST English
  wcohen@umd.edu
• McHale, Heather
  AGNR Institute of Applied Agriculture
  mchalehm@umd.edu
• Kimbrough, Michael
  BMGT Accounting
  mkimbrough@rhsmith.umd.edu

Humanities (gened-humanities@umd.edu)

• Arsenjuk, Luka
  ARHU Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  arsenjuk@umd.edu
• Coles, Kim
  ARHU English
  kcoles@umd.edu
• Robin, William
  ARHU Music
  wrobin@umd.edu
• Roberts, Douglas
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu
• Singpurwalla, Rachel
  ARHU Music
  rgks@umd.edu

History and Social Sciences (gened-historysocialsci@umd.edu)

• Fisher, Cortney
  Criminology and Criminal Justicey
  cfisher3@umd.edu
• Holly Brewer
  ARHU History
  hbrewer@umd.edu
• Haufler, Virginia
  BSOS Government and Politics
  vhaufler@umd.edu
• Raianu, Mircea
  ARHU History
  mraianu@umd.edu
• Roberts, Doug
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu
• Slater, Wayne
  EDUC Teaching, Learning, Policy, Leadership
  wslater@umd.edu

Natural Sciences (gened-natsci@umd.edu)

• Carleton, Karen
  CMNS Biology
  kcarleto@umd.edu
• Roberts, Doug
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu
• Weil, Ray
  AGNR Environmental Sciences & Tech
  rweil@umd.edu

Scholarship in Practice (gened-scholarship@umd.edu)

• Clark, Lawrence
  UGST Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
  lmclark@umd.edu
• Cukier, Michel
  ENGR Mechanical Engineering
  mcukier@umd.edu
• Moody, Erin
  BSOS Economics
  emoody@umd.edu
• Roberts, Doug
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu
• Ruggeri, Deni
  AGNR Landscape Architecture
  druggeri@umd.edu
• Slater, Wayne
  EDUC Teaching, Learning, Policy, Leadership
  wslater@umd.edu

Understanding Plural Societies/ Cultural Competency (gened-pluralsocieties@umd.edu)

• Neel Ahuja
  ARHU Women Gender & Sexuality Studies
  neel1@umd.edu
• Douthirt Cohen, Beth
  SPHL Dean's Suite
  bdc1@umd.edu
• Donlan, Alice
  UGST Dean's Office
  adonlan@umd.edu
• Andrea Frisch
  ARHU French
  afrisch@umd.edu
• Hackshaw, Alana
  PLCY Public Policy
  hackshaw@umd.edu
• Lindemann, Marilee
  ARHU English
  mlindema@umd.edu
• Littlefield, Jennifer
  PLCY Public Policy
  jnlittle@umd.edu
• Roberts, Doug
  Chair
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu
• Walsh, Shane
  BSOS African American Studies
  sbwalsh@umd.edu

• Cohen, William
  Chair
  UGST English
  wcohen@umd.edu
• Giovacchini, Saverio
  ARHU History
  saverio@umd.edu
• Maddux, Kristy
  ARHU Communication
  klmaddux.umd.edu
• McCauley, John
  BSOS Government & Politics
  mccauley@umd.edu
• McEwen, Abigail
  ARHU Art History & Archaeology
  mcewen@umd.edu
• Micallef, Shirley
  AGNR Plant Sciences & Landscape Architecture
  smicall@umd.edu
• Nelson, Deborah
  JOUR Journalism
  dnelson4@umd.edu
• Roberts, Douglas
  UGST Physics
  roberts@umd.edu