Distance Education Committee
Charge: The Distance Education Committee shall advise the associate provost for digital learning and the assistant vice provost for digital learning on policies and procedures pertaining to Lamar’s delivery of distance education, including two-way interactive delivery, online courses, web courses, off-campus courses, and related forms of distance education and instructional pedagogies. The members shall include the executives from digital learning, the vice president for information technology, the dean of the library, the chair of academic information technology committee, the director of center for teaching & learning, a CID representative nominated by the president of the CID, a Faculty Senate representative nominated by the president of the Faculty Senate, the SGA president (or appointee), representative of the disability resource center and elected faculty from the academic colleges. The associate provost for academic affairs and digital learning (or designee) shall also serve on and chair the committee.
Membership & Reporting: Faculty Senators/Deans conduct election for faculty members; chair is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Digital Learning (or designee); charge to Committee given by Provost; recommendations from Committee presented to Provost.
Committee Members
Brett Welch (Vice Provost, Digital Learning; Dean Graduate Studies), Chair | Ex Officio |
Carly Cox (Coordiator of Digital Learning) | Ex Officio |
Patrick Stewart (Chief Information Officer) | Ex Officio |
Cheng-Hsien Lin (Faculty Senate) | Ex Officio |
Diane Clark (CID) | Ex Officio |
Tammy Lilly (Accesibility Resource Center) | Ex Officio |
Ashley Dockens (Director, Center for Teaching & Learning Enhancement) | Ex Officio |
Kelly Weeks (Business) | FALL 2021-SUM 2024 |
Daryl Ann Borel (Education & Human Development) | FALL 2022-SUM 2025 |
Heather Reading (Fine Arts & Communication) | FALL 2023-SUM 2026 |
Xianchang Li (Engineering) | FALL 2023-SUM 2026 |
Sujing Wang (Arts & Sciences) | FALL 2023-SUM 2026 |
Vy Nguyen (SGA) | FALL 2023-SUM 2024 |