Merced Division

Undergraduate Council (UGC)

Duties

Undergraduate Council (UGC) establishes policy for undergraduate education on the Merced campus and advises the Chancellor or Chancellor’s designee on all matters pertaining to undergraduate education. UGC reviews, coordinates, and takes final action on all matters relating to courses of undergraduate instruction and approves or declines to approve, the establishment, discontinuation, or modification of undergraduate programs, majors, minors, courses, and certificates. UGC maintains liaison with the following systemwide committees:

Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS)

University Committee on Education Policy (UCEP)

University Committee on International Education (UCIE)

University Committee on Preparatory Education (UCOPE)

For a complete description of UGC’s duties please see the committee’s bylaws.

2019-2020 Membership

Jay Sharping, Chair, School of Natural Sciences, UCEP representative
Matthew Hibbing, Vice Chair, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Susan Amussen, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Fall 2019)
Eva De Alba, School of Engineering
Michael Beman, School of Natural Sciences
Chih-Chun Chien, School of Natural Sciences
Glynis Gawn, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Abbas Ghassemi, School of Engineering
Rowena Gray, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
David Kaminsky, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Angelo Kyrilov, School of Engineering
Michelle Leslie, School of Natural Sciences and UCIE Representative
Jesus Sandoval-Hernandez, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UCOPE Representative