Program planning and review
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The Organizational Meeting for the Incoming Committees AY2025-2026 will be Held in Centennial Hall at the end of August.
More information to come:
The following standing committees and their bylaws are created by action of the senate to support its work.
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Meeting Minutes
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Academic Planning Committee (APC)
2025-2026 Membership
| DEFAZIO,KIMBERLY |
| BUTLER MODAFF,JENNIFER |
| TROST,JENNIFER A |
| KUMM-SCHALEY,BRIAN EDWARD |
| SEEBACH,BRADLEY S |
| NARCOTTA-WELP,EILEEN M |
| BORAH,NILAKSHI |
| CHEN,WEN-CHIANG R |
| JAHAN,ISRAT |
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Formulating and reviewing local policies and standards concerning admissions, advising, retention, advanced standing, probation, dismissal, readmission, the grading system, and graduation honors for undergraduate students.
- Ensuring equitable application of standards by the undergraduate schools and colleges. A voting member has the responsibility to recuse themself if they are unable to ensure equitable application of standards due to a conflict of interest.
- Supervising the administration of these standards and formulating procedures for hearing student appeals and petitions on academic matters not resolved by administrative offices of the university.
Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports, and committee documents for the Academic Planning Committee.
Academic Program Review
Undergraduate APR:
2025-2026 Membership
| MAKSTENIEKS,SCOTT THOMAS |
| TOLLEFSON,MARY JANEAN |
| XU,HONGYING |
| MAY,JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH |
| DAS,RIG |
| TRITZ,ZACHARIAH PETER |
| PEKDEMIR,RECEP |
| GARCIA,MERIDETH MARIE |
| REBER,SCOTT R |
| WHITNEY,EMILY A |
| DICKMEYER,LINDA B |
Undergraduate Student Representatives
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and updating the procedures and criteria used to review existing undergraduate academic programs at UWL.
- Scheduling and conducting, in consultation with the provost/vice chancellor, the audit and review of undergraduate academic programs, including review of newly implemented undergraduate academic programs.
- Reviewing the Faculty Workload Policy and monitoring its application.
Graduate APR:
2024-2025 Membership
| SVOBODA, VICTORIA A |
| LIU, SUMEI |
| DAVELOS, ANITA LYNNE |
| KOMISSAROV, SERGEY A |
| DIXON, ROBERT J |
| CLUPPERT, INGA JOHANNA |
| TAEBEL. AMY RENEE |
Student Representative
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and updating the procedures and criteria used to review existing graduate academic programs at UWL.
- Scheduling and conducting, in consultation with the provost/vice chancellor, the audit and review of graduate academic programs, including review of newly implemented graduate academic programs.
- Reviewing the Graduate Faculty Workload Policy and monitoring its application.
Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports, and committee documents for the Academic Program Review Committees.
University Program Assessment Committee (UPAC)
2025-2026 Membership
| LU,WEIXU |
| COCKS,SAMUEL R |
| GILLETTE,CORDIAL M |
| ALDOGAN EKLUND,MURUVVET MEHTAP |
Patrick Barlow, Assessment Coordinator
Sam Cocks, Assessment Associate
Megan Lister, Assessment Associate
Shelley Hay, Assessment Associate
Cordial Gillette, Assessment Associate
Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinating and monitoring the assessment of academic programs by:
- Reviewing program-level assessment plans and assessment reports for academic programs in accordance with Undergraduate Academic Program Review Committee (UAPR) and Graduate Academic Program Review Committee (GAPR) policies.
- Providing recommendations for improvement based on that review, to department chairs, program directors, and departmental assessment coordinators.
- Acting as a resource for programs throughout the assessment cycle.
- Archiving all documentation related to the committee’s involvement in program assessment and making that documentation available on request to academic programs, UAPR, and GAPR.
- Gathering other program assessment information as needed.
The major tasks of this committee will be two-fold:
- Fall semester: Review program assessment reports and provide feedback to enable continued improvement in the undertaking of quality assessment.
- Spring semester: Review program level assessment plans for academic programs and provide recommendations for plan improvements to department chairs, program directors, and departmental assessment coordinators.
Please note: This committee serves a different purpose than the Academic Program Review (APR) Committee. The distinction between the work of Program Review (APR) and Program Assessment (UPAC) is illustrated below.
PROGRAM EVALUATION (program review). A systematic procedure for collecting, analyzing and using information to answer questions about the extent to which a program is achieving its goals. Typically, it focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of a program. Assessment of student learning outcomes in the program may be included as one source of information to evaluate the program.
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT (contrast with program evaluation). A systematic procedure for collecting, analyzing and using information about student learning with respect to program-level learning outcomes. Results are used to inform decisions about how to improve student learning in the program.
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at senate@uwlax.edu or call 608-785-8018.
Faculty Senate Meeting Dates
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Fall 2025
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Spring 2026
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All Faculty Senate meetings are scheduled in Union 2310 and typically start at 3:45 p.m.