Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC)
A page within Records & Registration
The Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC) is a standing faculty committee that meets at 3:45pm in 2214 Centennial Hall the first and third Tuesdays of the month for the Fall and Spring semesters (not including the first week of the semester, spring break, or finals week). This committee is responsible for reviewing and approving changes to the graduate curriculum.
Curriculum procedures
UWL's curriculum approval process is described on the first tab of the Curriculum Change Process & Policies page, along with the procedures relating to UCC/GCC business. The curriculum policies that affect course and program forms content can be found on the second tab.
Links to the course and program forms and directions on how to complete them are on the CIM Help - Courses and CIM Help - Programs page. Department chairs and other approvers in workflow may find guidance on the CIM Approver page.
Curriculum Committees
The below training materials were created for UCC & GCC committee members, including the committee chairs. However, members of other curriculum committees may also find them helpful, especially the "Using CIM as a Committee Chair or Member."
- UCC/GCC Guidelines for Reviewing CIM Proposals
- Committee Members guide
- Committee Chairs guide
- Department Chairs guide
- Searching for a proposal in CIM
Committee chairs will receive the "Action Required" email as each form reaches their step in workflow. All proposals ready for committee review will be under their role on the Approver Page.
UCC & GCC committee members will receive an agenda a few days ahead of the meeting with links to the proposals being reviewed.
GCC Documents
GCC Agendas 2025-2026
2025 - 2026
GCC 09.16.25 - deadline for winter intercession and spring timetable changes
GCC 10.07.25
GCC 10.21.25
GCC 11.04.25
GCC 11.18.25
GCC 12.02.25 - deadline for summer timetable changes
GCC 02.03.26
GCC 02.17.26 - deadline for fall timetable changes
GCC 03.03.26
GCC 04.07.26
GCC 04.21.26 - deadline for catalog changes
GCC 05.05.26 - if needed
GCC Minutes (current & previous year)
Current Year
2025 -2026 Minutes
GCC 09.16.25
GCC 10.07.25
GCC 10.21.25
GCC 11.04.25
GCC 11.18.25
GCC 12.02.25
GCC 02.03.26
GCC 02.17.26
GCC 03.03.26
GCC 04.07.26
GCC 04.21.26
GCC 05.05.26
Previous Year
2024-2025 Minutes
GCC 10.15.2024 - Canceled
GCC 11.19.2024 - Canceled
GCC 5.6.2025
Minutes from Fall 2012 to the present are also located on the Faculty Senate SharePoint. Contact the Records and Registration office for minutes prior to Fall 2012.
GCC Bylaws
M. The Graduate Curriculum Committee (Revised 2022)
- from Faculty Senate Bylaws
Duties and responsibilities of the committee shall include:
1. Receiving, reviewing and acting on proposals for curricular changes from academic departments and graduate programs.
a. Evaluating curricular proposals by an established set of criteria.
b. Ensuring that curricular proposals have been vetted through formal
consultation with the academic departments, graduate programs, and the Academic Program Review Committee or other curricular approval committees.
2. Informing department chairpersons/program directors, in writing, of proposals being considered, thus providing adequate opportunity for departments/programs to be heard prior to committee and senate action on such proposals.
3. Publishing the agenda of regularly scheduled meetings in a university-wide communication outlet.
Membership of the committee shall consist of nine members of the graduate faculty, four graduate students and one representative from or affiliated with the School of Education, Professional and Continuing Education. Any Instructional Academic Staff appointed to the committee shall have been employed by the University for the Faculty Senate Articles and Bylaws,
previous four consecutive years. Each student member shall represent one of these academic units. The Provost/Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Director of University Graduate Studies, Director of the Library, and academic deans, or their designees, shall serve as administrative consultants to the committee. The committee shall elect its chairperson and recorder. The chairperson will also serve as a voting member of the Graduate Council.
