Meet the Staff

General Education Leadership

                                                           

Brian Utter

Chair, General Education

Teaching Professor, Physics

brianutter@ucmerced.edu      

 

Jeannie Lee

Program Coordinator, General Education

jlee813@ucmerced.edu

 

Holly Moyes

Faculty Director, Honors Program

Professor for SSHA, Archaeology

hmoyes@ucmerced.edu

 

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:

  • 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