The Committee on Teaching Principles and Policy was constituted in January 2025. Provost Katherine Baicker shared the following charge at the Committee's first meeting.
Committee Charge
The committee will consider the values and principles that undergird our teaching in all its many forms across undergraduate, master’s, and PhD programs. With those values and principles in mind, the primary focus of the committee’s work will be to recommend how to align teaching effort of faculty and other academics with the University’s education mission and demand for instruction, making the most of available resources to deliver exceptional education for our students. The committee will review how teaching is occurring now, including the distribution and amount of teaching being performed by faculty, instructional professors, and other instructors; and will recommend changes in policies or expectations needed to best reflect our values and principles. The committee will seek to understand the constraints that shape teaching patterns and practices, such as financial/budget models, space needs, changing forms of scholarship and pedagogy, etc. The committee’s review and recommendations will be submitted to the provost and will inform continued enhancement of UChicago’s world-class educational programs, providing a framework for decision-making as programs across the University evolve and grow.
Committee Members
- Melina Hale, co-chair, Dean of the College; William Rainey Harper Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the College
- Debbie Nelson, co-chair, Dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities; Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College
- John S. Anderson, Associate Professor and Associate Chair in Chemistry
- Catherine C. Baumann, Director, Chicago Language Center
- Scott Snyder, Professor in Chemistry and Master of the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division
- E. Summerson Carr, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Faculty Affiliate of Comparative Human Development and Gender Studies
- Ryan Coyne, Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology and the College
- David Kovar, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and Associate Dean of Basic Science, Graduate Education
- Robin Paige, Executive Director, Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning; Associate Senior Instructional Professor; Associate Dean, the College
- Jon C Rogowski, Professor in Political Science and Faculty Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences
- Eric Slauter, Associate Professor in English; Deputy Dean of the Arts & Humanities Division and Master of the Arts & Humanities Collegiate Division
- James Sparrow, Associate Professor in History and the College
- Somaiyya Ahmad, Office of the Provost, staff