Membership 2025-26
Co-Chairs: Joan Petit, TBD
| Name | Division (Department) | Start of Service |
| Beer, John | CLAS-AL (ENG) | 2025 |
| Cardenas, Norma | SSW (CYFS) | 2023 |
| Craven, Sri | CLAS-AL (WGSS) | 2025 |
| De La Vega, Esperanza | COE (C&I) | 2024 |
| Dinno, Alexis | SPH | 2025 |
| Kelly, Maura | CLAS-AL (SOC) | 2025 |
| Kennedy, Karen | AO (ACS) | 2024 |
| Kuang, Li | COTA (MUS) | 2023 |
| Michaud, Meredith | OI (UNST) | 2024 |
| Nielsen-Pincus, Max | CLAS-Sci (ESM) | 2022 |
| Petit, Joan | LIB | 2021 |
| Rai, Pronoy | CLAS-SS (GGR) | 2024 |
| Sedighi, Anousha | CLAS-AL (WLL) | 2025 |
| Sheagley, Eric | CLAS-Sci (CHE) | 2024 |
| Valdini, Melody | CUPA (PGA) | 2025 |
| Wern, Chien | MCECS (MME) | 2025 |
| TBD | Adjunct, SB | |
| TBD | Students (2) | |
| Ex officio: | | |
| Lafrenz, Martin | BC rep. (GGR) | |
| Consultant: | | |
| Morris, Andreen | (OAA) | |
| | | status 8/26/25 |
Charge
1. Serve as the faculty advisory body to the President and to the Faculty Senate on matters of educational policy and planning for the University.
2. Take notice of developments leading to such changes on its own initiative, with appropriate consultation with other interested faculty committees, and with timely report or recommendation to the Faculty Senate.
3. Make recommendations to the Senate concerning the approval of proposals from appropriate administrative officers or faculty committees for the establishment, abolition, or major alteration of the structure or educational function of departments, distinct programs, interdisciplinary programs, divisions, schools, colleges, centers, institutes, or other significant academic entities. All proposals must use the Process for Creation, Elimination and Alteration of Academic Units.
4. In consultation with the appropriate Faculty committees, recommend long-range plans and priorities for the achievement of the mission of the University.
5. Undertake matters falling within its competence on either its own initiative or by referral from the President, faculty committees, or the Faculty Senate.
6. Form subcommittees as needed to carry out its work.
7. Report to the Faculty Senate at least once each term.
Documents / Forms
Academic units:
Process map: creation, elimination, and alteration of academic units
Guidelines for proposals to transfer the academic home of units across schools and colleges
Creation of an academic unit
Alteration of an academic unit
Elimination of an academic unit
Academic programs:
For new and changed programs, and new and changed courses, see the Online Curriculum Management System (OCMS)
Moratorium Procedure
Request to Place a Program on Moratorium
Annual Report Form for Programs on Moratorium
Relocation of an academic program
Addition or revision of a departmental undergraduate honors track
Reports
EPC Annual Report 2020-21
EPC Quarterly Report Fall 2020
EPC Annual Report 2019-20
EPC Quarterly Report Winter 2020
EPC Quarterly Report Fall 2019