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Undergraduate Council (UgC)

Council Members (2009-2010 AY)

Meeting Schedule 2009-2010
Day Date Time Location
Friday September 25, 2009* 2:00pm - 4:00pm California Room, Faculty Center
Friday October 9, 2009 (Cancelled) 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday October 23, 2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday November 6 , 2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday November 20, 2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday December 11, 2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday January 15, 2010 (Cancelled) 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday January 29, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday February 12, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday February 26, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday March 12, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday April 2, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday April 16, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday April 30, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday May 14, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday May 28, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 2121 Murphy
Friday June 4, 2010 2:00pm - 4:00pm 3135 Murphy
Friday June 11, 2010 11:00am - 1:00pm 2121 Murphy

*Joint UgC/GC Meeting.

Committee Charge

The Undergraduate Council makes policy for undergraduate education at UCLA; recommends to the Legislative Assembly undergraduate programs leading to new degrees; authorizes, supervises and regulates all undergraduate courses and programs of instruction and preparatory education; periodically reviews and evaluates all undergraduate programs of study and all programs of preparatory education in conjunction with the Graduate Council; and sets standards for honors and recommends procedures for awards of undergraduate scholarships. For information on undergraduate course or program approval, please refer to the "Guide to Undergraduate Course and Program Approval."   For a general understanding for the routing process for evaluating proposals, please see "Procedural Manual for the Review of Proposals for Academic Programs And Units."  Procedures and guidelines are available upon request.

Course Action Request Forms are submitted on-line via the Course Inventory Management System (CIMS).

CIMS is designed to be used by staff and faculty to manage the approval process for UCLA courses. To use CIMS, you must have a BOL or AIS account. The application is designed to be used with the Internet Explorer browser. For questions or assistance, call the Registrar’s Office at 67045 or 64055.

Subcommittees

The Council has four main policy subcommittees: the Committee on Admissions, the Committee on Curriculum, Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes, and the Committee on Student Development. In addition, there is an Administrative Committee of the Council.

  • Committee on Admissions: The Committee on Admissions meets with the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (CUARS) to determine standards and criteria for undergraduate admission in accordance with the provisions of SBL 311.C.1; and monitors campus procedures for recruitment, outreach, and informational services to schools.
  • Committee on Curriculum: By delegation from the Undergraduate Council, the committee holds course approval authority. It will review proposals for majors, minors, concentrations, and other undergraduate initiatives before sending them to the Council for action. In the areas of innovative education, it will work with Faculty Executive Committees (FECs), with the Office of Instructional Development (OID) and its oversight committee, and with the Office of the Provost and other relevant entities.
  • Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes: The Committee is responsible for the development of awards policy to further the aims of undergraduate education. The Honors, Awards and Prizes Committee will select the Regents Scholarships, the President’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF’s), the Teague-Melville-Elliot Prizes, and will interview candidates for other scholarships such as the Wal-Mart scholarship or Women in Communication Award.
  • Committee on Student Welfare: The Committee develops strategies and policies to improve and enrich student intellectual and academic life and foster a sense of academic community at UCLA. The focus is on undergraduate life outside the classroom and on developing connections between course work and extracurricular activity and between life on campus and in the community.
  • Administrative Committee: Consisting of the UgC Council Chair and Vice-Chair, the subcommittee chairs and co-chairs, and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, previews the program review reports submitted by review teams and establishes the agenda for Council meetings.

Membership

The Council consists of 26 members: 21 appointed members with vote and 5 ex-officio members without vote as follows - the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Director of the Office of Instructional Development, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, and the Chair of the General Education Governance Committee. In addition, there are four undergraduate student representatives and two graduate student representatives, appointed in accordance with Bylaw 45. The Chair and Vice Chair are designated by the Committee on Committees.

Also, please refer to relevant Appendices.

Meets on alternate Friday afternoons 2-4 p.m.

Chair: Joseph B. Watson, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, jwatson@mednet.ucla.edu
Senate staff contact: Judith Lacertosa, Principal Policy Analyst, 310-825-1194, jlacertosa@senate.ucla.edu.

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