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 Committees
Training materials for UCC & GCC committee members and chairs are available in the UCC/GCC Faculty Training Canvas course. Enroll in the course to have access to materials on using the Curriculum Inventory Management system (CIM) for course and program proposals, your roles and responsibilities, and guides on what the committees review.
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 the committee chair role on the Approver Page. Department chairs and other approvers in workflow should bookmark the Approver Page in case an email notification is missed.
UCC & GCC committee members will receive an agenda a few days ahead of the meeting with links to the proposals being reviewed.
Curriculum procedures
In addition to the UCC/GCC Faculty Training Canvas course, UWL's curriculum approval process is described on the Curriculum Change Process & Policies page, along with additional procedures relating to UCC/GCC business. UWL's curriculum policies can be found on the second tab.
Links to the course and program forms are on the CIM Help - Courses and CIM Help - Programs page.
The GCC chart indicates whether or not specific changes (usually, but not always) require UCC/GCC review, either as an action item or on the consent agenda.
GCC Documents
GCC Agendas 2025-2026
2025 - 2026
GCC 09.16.25 - deadline for winter intercession and spring timetable changes
GCC 10.21.25 - cancelled
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 10.21.25 - cancelled
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 2023)
- from Faculty Senate Bylaws
Duties and responsibilities of the committee shall include:
- Receiving, reviewing and acting on proposals for curricular changes from academic departments and graduate programs.
- Evaluating curricular proposals by an established set of criteria.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Any Instructional Academic Staff appointed to the committee shall have been employed by the University for the previous four consecutive years. The Provost/Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Dean of Graduate and Extended Learning, 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.
