Liberal Education Council
The Liberal Education Council (LEC) is a Senate-level committee of Miami faculty (voting members) who advise the Office of Liberal Education. They, along with key Ex-officio members, provide important input into the work of Miami’s liberal education curriculum. A complete catalog of the function and composition of LEC can be found on the University Senate website.
Fall 2024 Meeting Dates
Miami faculty and staff are welcome to attend regularly scheduled LEC meetings.
- August 27, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- September 3, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- September 10, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- September 17, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- September 24, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- October 1, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- October 8, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- October 15, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- October 22, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- November 12, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- November 19, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
- December 3, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Web Meeting
Council Members
The Office of Liberal Education is guided by the Liberal Education Council, a committee of the University Senate.
- Chair, Leighton C. Peterson | Office of Liberal Education
- Secretary, Dorothy Falke | Office of Liberal Education
Faculty Membership
- Elizabeth Hoover (Music) | Associate Director, Office of Liberal Education and Liaison, Howe Center for Writing Excellence.
- Ron Becker (Media, Journalism, and Film) | Interim Member (Fall '24)
Term Ends August 2025
- David Daugherty (Mathematical and Physical Science) | Natural Sciences
- Robert Leonard (Information System Analytics) | Mathematics/Technology/Formal Logic and FSB
- Aaron Pergram (Music) | Creative Arts and CCA
Term Ends August 2026
- Edgar Caraballo (Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) | At-Large Member and College of Engineering and Computing
- Caryn Neumann (CLAAS) | Intercultural Consciousness and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Veronica Barrios (Education, Health, and Society) | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Social Sciences
Term Ends August 2027
- John-Charles Duffy (Comparative Religion) | Humanities and CAS
- Kelsey Ellis (Anthropology) | Study Away/Study Abroad and Global Inquiry
- Andrew Hebard (English) | Humanities and Intercultural Consciousness
- Tracy Haynes (Biology) | Senate Liaison and Natural Sciences
- Christopher Kelley (Political Science) | Social Sciences and Global Inquiry
Ex Officio Non-Voting Members
- Carol Jones | Associate Registrar, Office of the University Registrar
- Jason Ezell | University Libraries
- Christa Branson | Associate Director for Academic Advising, College of Arts and Science
- TBA | Associated Student Government
Advisory Committees
Howe Center for Advanced Writing
The Howe Center for Advanced Writing - Local Advisory Board is comprised of faculty, administrators, and librarians from departments across Miami that advise the HCWE Director on various initiatives of the center. In their capacity as the LEC Sub-committee for Advanced Writing, members review applications for Advanced Writing courses and offer recommendations to faculty developing those proposals.
Committee Members
- Hakam Alomari, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Mark Dahlquist, Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
- Annie Dell'Aria, Assistant Professor, Art History
- Joyce Fernandes, Professor, Biology
- Elizabeth Hoover, Senior Lecturer, Music and LEC liaison
- Janice Kinghorn, Senior Lecturer, Economics
- Andrew Offenburger, Assistant Professor, History
- Brad Reitz, Visiting Professor, Farmer School of Business
- Naaborle Sackeyfio, Assistant Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies
- Scott Sander, Associate Clinical Professor, Teacher Education
- John Tassoni, Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Writing (Miami Regional Campus)
- Elizabeth Wardle (Committee Chair), Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence; Howe Professor, English
- Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Associate Professor, English
