{"id":542,"date":"2011-08-17T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/?page_id=542"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:07:57","slug":"distance-and-blended-learning-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/committees\/other-university-advisory-and-special-interest-committees\/distance-and-blended-learning-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance and Blended Learning Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p><strong>Deadlines to Submit Majority Online Course Proposal to Committee for the 2025-2026 Academic Year<\/strong>:<\/p><ul>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">9\/16\/2026&ndash; Proposals due to the Committee for Spring 2025 semester delivery<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">11\/20\/2026 &ndash; Proposals due to the Committee for Summer 2026 semester delivery<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">1\/18\/2027 &ndash; Proposals due to the Committee for Fall 2026 semester delivery<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/committees\/other-university-advisory-and-special-interest-committees\/distance-and-blended-learning-committee\/application-for-majority-online-courses\/\">Information on Majority Online Course or Program Proposals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proposals should be submitted via UMW&rsquo;s Curriculum Inventory Management System (CIM). For more information about the system, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/provost.umw.edu\/umw-curriculum-approval-process\/\">https:\/\/provost.umw.edu\/umw-curriculum-approval-process\/<\/a>. Once submitted, the proposal is routed to your department chair for approval before it is sent to the committee. Allow 1-2 weeks for the proposal to be routed to the committee for review.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><strong>Meeting Dates for the 2025-2026 Academic Year:<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><strong>Approved Majority Online Courses<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>The Registrar maintains a current list of approved majority online courses. &nbsp;Please contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.umw.edu\/registrar\/\">Registrar<\/a> for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><strong>Members <\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">2027 J.D. Swerzenski, Assistant Professor, CDS, CAS,&nbsp;<i data-ogsc=\"\">Chair&nbsp;<\/i><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">2028 Gonzalo Campos Dintrans, Associate Professor, MLL, CAS, <i data-ogsc=\"\">Secretary<\/i><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">2029 Sayan Sarkar, Assistant Professor, COB<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">2029 Samira Fallah, Associate Professor, COB<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><strong><em>Ex-Officio<\/em> Members<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>Jerry Slezak, Director of Digital Learning Technologies<\/li>\n<li>Paul Boger, Representative appointed by the University Librarian<\/li>\n<li>Hall Cheshire, Chief Information Officer<\/li>\n<li>Juliette Landphair, Vice President for Student Affairs (or representative)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Johnson-Young, Associate Director of the Center for Teaching<\/li>\n<\/ul><p align=\"left\"><strong>Duties<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>2.8.3<\/strong> The committee&rsquo;s duties are to :<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.1 <\/strong>Maintain the quality and integrity of the curriculum for courses and programs offered in a majority online format;<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.2 <\/strong>Establish procedures and criteria for approval, deletion, and alteration of courses and programs offered in a majority online format;<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.3 <\/strong>Review and approve or reject proposals from the various departments for courses to be offered in a majority online format;<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.4 <\/strong>Review and evaluate majority online courses on a scheduled and on-going basis to ensure that courses continue to represent the tradition of quality education at UMW, making suggestions for course revisions or removal from the curriculum as appropriate;<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.5 <\/strong>Perform any and all additional duties pertaining to this committee at the request of the committee&rsquo;s chair;<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.6 <\/strong>Make information available regarding the procedures and deadlines for proposing courses to the appropriate oversight committee; and<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>.7 <\/strong>Perform other duties as assigned by the UFC.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadlines to Submit Majority Online Course Proposal to Committee for the 2025-2026 Academic Year: 9\/16\/2026&ndash; Proposals due to the Committee for Spring 2025 semester delivery 11\/20\/2026 &ndash; Proposals due to the Committee for Summer 2026 semester delivery 1\/18\/2027 &ndash; Proposals due to the Committee for Fall 2026 semester delivery Information on Majority Online Course or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":540,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-542","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19933,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/542\/revisions\/19933"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/ufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}