General Education Leadership
Brian Utter
Chair, General Education
Teaching Professor, Physics

Jeannie Lee
Program Coordinator, General Education

Holly Moyes
Faculty Director, Honors Program
Professor for SSHA, Archaeology
General Education Membership
General Education (GE) falls under the jurisdiction of College One; all Senate faculty are members of College One and share responsibility for General Education. The Vice-Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education (VPDUE) is the Dean of College One.
The Program Faculty Chair administers the program with the support of the Executive Committee. Unless otherwise stipulated herein, member roles are defined in the Academic Senate’s Guides to Membership and Executive Session.
Members of the Executive Committee include:
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The Faculty Chair of the Program (ex-officio, voting member)
- Two Senate faculty representatives from each of the schools of Engineering; Natural Sciences; and Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts (voting members)
- Two at-large Non-Senate faculty members from different Schools (voting members)
- The Director of the Merritt Writing Program (ex-officio, non-voting member)
- The Coordinator of the General Education Program (ex-officio, non-voting member)
- A representative from Student Affairs (non-voting member)
- An undergraduate student (non-voting member)
2025-2026 Membership
SSHA:
- Heather Bortfeld
- David Jennings (Fall 25 only)
- Jason Lee
SNS:
- Linda Hirst (Fall 25 only)
- Michelle Leslie
- Ruben Ceballos
SoE:
- Ed Kolodka
- Eric Cheng
Unit 18:
- Heather Devrick
- Pooja Chopra
