Committee Membership

According to Appendix G of the current contract, the committee will consist of 15 voting members: seven members selected by the Union to represent the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Health Sciences, Education, Pharmacy, Library and Instructional Services, and the Division of Continuing Education and Non-traditional Programs;  five members chosen by the respective Chairperson, Director, or Union Chapter President to represent each of the following areas: the Union, Information Technology, the University Graduate and Professional Council, the University Curriculum Coordinating Committee, and the General Education Committee; a member selected by the VP of Enrollment Management and two members selected by the Provost. Director of the Center for Teaching and Research Excellence and Moodle and Instructional Design staff of the Office of Online Instruction are ex officio, non-voting members of the committee. College Deans shall be informed of the membership of the standing committee.

Members are appointed for a three-year term to a maximum of two consecutive terms. The Union chapter president and the Provost at the request of the Distance Education Committee shall fill mid-year vacancies. Alternate members may be selected by the duly appointed member.

To accomplish the purpose of the Distance Education Committee, its members should regularly attend meetings to insure adequate representation of each academic and administrative area. At the end of each semester the committee shall report to the Union chapter president and the Provost those members attending less than 50% of the meetings so that these members may be replaced within one month with new appointees.

Additional persons may be invited to provide input to the Committee. They can be regular attendees or be invited to address specific topics. They shall serve without vote.

Current DEC Members (2020-21)

Appointment Area	Primary	Alternate
Union appt/CAS	Karel Jacobs kjacobs@csu.edu (Chair)
Union appt/COB	Ehab Yamani (ehabyamani@csu.edu) (Secretary)
Union appt/CHS	VACANT
Union appt/COE	Rasha Elhage (relhage@csu.edu) Vice-Chair	Olanipekun Laosebikan (olaosebi@csu.edu)
Union appt/COP	VACANT
Union appt /Library	Joanna Kolendo (Jkolendo@csu.edu)
Union appt/Continuing Education	VACANT
Union	Gabriel Gomez (ggomez@csu.edu)	Deb Lynch Union President (dlynch21@csu.edu) ALT
Information Technology	Mark Las (mlas@csu.edu)
Graduate  Council	June Price-Shingles jprice24@csu.edu)
University Curriculum Committee	Jan-Jo Chen (jchen20@csu.edu) Kristy Mardis (kmardis@csu.edu)
General Education Committee	Art Redman (aredman@csu.edu)
Enrollment Management	Shawnice Avilez (savilez@csu.edu)
Provost appt/Contract Admin	Thomas Rowan (trowanii@csu.edu)
Provost appt/Academic Affairs	Mary Daniels (mdanie25@csu.edu
CTRE Director (non voting)	Patrice Boyles (pboyles@csu.edu)
OOI Staff-Moodle Super. (non voting)	Theo Garth (tgarth@csu.edu)
OOI Staff-Instruct. Design(non voting)	Rochelle Johnson (rjohns30@csu.edu)