WMU Essential Studies Course Review and Approval Committee Membership

MEMBERSHIP: The composition of the committee can be found in the Faculty Senate Bylaws, Article VII: Committees, Sec. 2, and includes at least 12 members including a university advising council representative, university curriculum manager, WMU essential studies faculty director; and eight faculty members appointed by the WMU Essential Studies Executive Advisory Committee (one from each academic college and one at large), a WMU essential studies executive advisory committee representative as an ex officio member.

The WMU Essential Studies Course Review and Approval Committee requires six out of its current 10 voting members to be in attendance to establish quorum, as long as there are no Vacant seats, any Vacant seat(s) should be removed from the voting member total so that one more than half of the new total is needed for quorum. (*indicates a non-voting member)

COMMITTEE OFFICERS

Katherine Suender, Chair

Vacant, Vice Chair

Kwangmin Lee, Secretary

EX OFFICIO MEMBER

Vacant
WMU Essential Studies Executive Advisory Committee

Permanent Appointed Members

*Elissa Allen (substitute for Jonathan Bush)
Interim WMU Essential Studies Faculty Director

*Lisa DeChano-Cook
Curriculum Manager

*VACANT
University Advising Council

Appointed Faculty Members

Samantha Collet (Spring 2027 Amy Dolinski-Geib) (2027)
Health and Human Services

Dana Hammond (2029)
Engineering and Applied Sciences

Kwangmin Lee (2027)
Representative-At-Large (Education and Human Development)

Vincent Lyon-Callo (2027)
Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences)

Matilda McLean (2028)
Aviation

Marie Moreno (2029)
Business

Katherine Suender (2028)
Education and Human Development

Nathan Tabor (2029)
Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences)

Kathryn Wagner (2028)
Fine Arts

COLLEGE ADVISORY REPRESENTATIVES

*Jacquelyn Bizzell
Academic Advisor Senior, College of Arts and Sciences

*Melinda Lockett
Director of Academic Advising, College of Health and Human Services

*Lucy Parrott
Honors Advisor Senior, Lee Honors College

*Colleen Stano
Director of Academic Advising, Haworth College of Business

*Sharon Van Dyken
Director of Academic Advising, College of Aviation

*Destiny Wallace
Undergraduate Advisor, Irving S. Gilmore School of Music