Introduction

  • This election is for CAPC College of Arts and Humanities Department Representative(s). The rules for this election are listed below.
  • The nominees for the CAPC College of Arts and Humanities Department Representative(s) election are listed to the right. The list to the right is not a ballot.
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The nominees for CAPC College of Arts and Humanities Department Representative(s) are:

Jelena Colovic-Markovic
Simon Ruchti
Andrew Sargent

Nominations close Apr 1, 2018.
Regular Faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • Approve/Disapprove Ballot for Representatives from the following Departments:
    • Languages and Cultures
    • Women's and Gender Studies
    • English
    • Each department can have at most three representatives on CAPC.
    • The election is decided by a plurality of those casting votes unless such results violate the previous rule or the number of candidates does not exceed the number of positions to fill. In the later case, each candidate will be voted on by an approve/disapprove ballot.
    • Each ballot submitted counts as a cast vote.
    • Members elected to at-large seats cannot be nominated for department representative seats.

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Jelena Colovic-Markovic


Department: Laguages and Cultures

During the academic 2017-18, I have served as a Department Representative Proxy for CAPC-Gen Education. While in this role, I have actively engaged in reviewing proposals submitted to General Education and have also attended CAPC sub-committee and CAPC Gen Ed meetings. In addition, I have created face-to-face and online courses that have successfully gone through the CAPC process. I am now asking for your support, as I seek a full term, to continue the work of contributing to the strengthening of our curriculum and academic policies. Serving in this capacity will allow me apply my detail-oriented skills as well as my collaborative nature. Thank you for your time and support.


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Simon Ruchti


Department: Women's and Gender Studies

I have been a member of CAPC since 2013, serving on the Undergraduate Review Committee until this year when I was assigned to co-chair the Interdisciplinary Committee. I have also served as chair of WGST's curriculum committee and am currently department chair. With the new general education curriculum starting in the fall, I would like to continue my work on CAPC and help ensure as seamless a process as possible. While I'm not exactly looking forward to reading all of those course proposals, I am committed to working with my colleagues to ensure a strong curriculum at WCU.


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Andrew Sargent


Department: English

I was fortunate to serve on CAPC for a recent three-year term and would very much welcome the opportunity to get back to this important work. My service on CAPC’s Undergraduate Programs Committee (UGPC) helped me understand how CIM proposals are evaluated and ultimately approved, and one of the things I’d like to do if elected would be to contribute to CAPC’s role in helping faculty get their course- and program-proposals through the CIM process in a way that feels collaborative rather than obstructionist. There’s a vague misperception out there that CAPC is some sort of punitive bureaucratic entity designed to enforce compliance from faculty, rather than what it actually is: a model of faculty self-governance and an essential means for faculty to make sure that the educational experience we’re offering our students is cohesive, rigorous, and thoughtful. I’d be grateful for the opportunity to continue contributing to CAPC’s ongoing mission and its collaboration with faculty across the campus. Thanks for your time and consideration.


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