Faculty and colleagues, aloha!
As I'm reporting on the 2025-2026 curriculum cycle, I want to begin my report by sharing a short story. In 2004, the EIL program was engaged in a major language testing reform project. The work was unlike what many of you have experienced this year as you have argued for negotiated, revised and finally submitted your curriculum proposals.
We had a lot of disagreements and had to overcome many challenges. One day working with my colleague, it was a particularly difficult time on an advanced reading exam. I arrived early in the faculty building to prepare for my classes and continuing working on the exam.
When I arrived, one of my colleagues had posted a picture and along with this caption on the door; compared to working on some 329 test, where it isn't that bad. I suspect some of you can relate to the way he was feeling. To finish my story, my colleague eventually worked his frustrations and the results were much better than what we had before. I hope that you feel that your curriculum work has likewise strengthened your programs, clarified your goals, and improve the educational experience we provide our students with. If you do not feel that way, or if you believe there is still more work to do, the 2026–2027 curriculum cycle has already begun. New proposals are due October 31st of this year.
Any continued work, however, will need to focus on strengthening existing programs through thoughtful integration of content, reducing unnecessary redundancies, and responsible planning with a zero growth environment.
Summary
Summary of our 2025–2026 curriculum cycle. For the full curriculum proposals, we had 34 submitted, 27 completed the full approval process. The easy forms, 52 submitted with 42. Overall, we had an 80% approval completion rate. The remaining work is going to be related to targeted program revisions and some governance actions, some Dean Councils, President's Council (PC) and maybe Executive Board work. Signatures, course information, and all of those things that we need to do to make sure our curriculum is accurate.
Conclusion
I'd like to end this report by thanking all of you faculty and my colleagues who worked diligently on these curriculum changes. I'd also like to give a shout out to the University Curriculum Committee who worked very hard. Anna Christensen, Jim Tuller, Russell Carlson, Scott Springer, Georgi Lukov, and Christian Kunz. Thank you so much. Can we give them a hand? [Applause]
Finally our University Curriculum and Assessment Manager, Amelia Mauafu, who has done tremendous work and let's also give her a hand. [Applause]
Thank you.