The EPC met 24 times during the 2004-2005 academic year. The following summary of the committee's activities is ordered by topic, not by date.

Educational Policies

• The committee advised Associate Dean Dettmer on the "night exams" issue. (see "Scheduling Examinations Outside of Class Time")
• The committee spent significant time on the development of new policies on undergraduate enrollment in independent study course work. (full details of the policy are here)

General Education

• The committee received and accepted two reports and the recommendations within from the General Education Curriculum Committee.
• The committee slightly modified the definition of the "Interpretation of Literature" area of the General Education Program. The change opens the area to course submissions from a number of different departments, such as the foreign language departments, American Studies, or Cinema & Comparative Literature.

Department/Program Curricula

• The committee met with the Department of Classics, which proposed two major initiatives for Fall 2005. The committee worked with the department and eventually proposed to the Faculty Assembly that both the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics and the changes in the Department's majors (dropping separate Greek and Latin majors in favor of a "Classical Languages major) be approved.
• The committee met with a representative from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication to discuss a change in the title of the school's minor. The committee recommended that the Faculty Assembly approve the change.
• The committee met with Mr. Douglas Lee, Director, Center for Credit Programs. They expressed their concern about the courses taught in the intensive sessions (the three-week May session and the winter term). While a number of innovative and appropriate courses are taught, the committee was concerned that some full-semester courses were being squeezed into these sessions.

Teaching

• As usual, the committee met with Executive Associate Dean Raúl Curto to discuss low enrollment and other issues.
• The committee met with Professor Wilfrid Nixon, Director, Center for Teaching.

Other

• The committee interviewed candidates for the position of Director of the University Honors Program.
• The committee met with Dean Maxson.
• The committee met with Provost Hogan.
• The committee met with Mr. Larry Lockwood, University Registrar.
• The committee met with Mr. Michael Barron, Director of Admissions, on University scholarships and other issues.
• The committee met with Ms. Pat Folsom, Director of the Academic Advising Center, to discuss advising issues.
• The committee met with Mr. Joel Wilcox, the project leader for OSIRIS, to discuss faculty and student access to information through OSIRIS and ISIS.
• The committee met with Mr. David Baumgartner, Director of the Career Center.
• The committee met with the Chair of Faculty Assembly, Professor Sarah Larsen, and with the chair of the committee that wrote the Faculty Assembly revitalization proposal, Professor Jae Kim.
• The committee met with representatives of ITS twice to talk about technology issues. While supportive of the use of technology in teaching and research, committee members stressed that resources must be available, especially individual support so that technology serves faculty and students. The time and energy of faculty and students should be on the educational and research processes, not on the technology itself. The committee also heard about the new ICON system for course management.