Tuesday
August 19,
2003
Approved
Minutes
Present: Johnson
Afolayan,
Killian Clink, Gretta Handke, Dan Levin, Dick Liebendorfer, Ron
Nickerson, and
Jim Rife
Ron Nickerson convened the meeting at 9:10
AM and
welcomed everybody back.
Killian Clink
volunteered to
serve as the committee note taker and archivist of committee minutes
for this
year. The committee expressed
gratitude for her willingness to take on this responsibility.
Ron Nickerson
asked
committee members to submit their fall schedules as soon as possible so
that a
regular meeting time could be established. Committee
members suggested that we take the opportunity
this semester to standard General Education meeting time that does not
change
from semester to semester.
Ron Nickerson
indication
that administration has not yet named members of the sub-meet and
confer. An announcement is expected soon.
The Committee
identified
several major tasks that it will attempt to address this academic year:
• Work out the functional relationship between the UCAP and General Education committees and establish an identity for the General Education Committee because this is the first year that General Education will be a standing committee
• Develop a General Education Assessment Handbook to assist faculty involved with teaching and assessment of General Education courses in development of assessment reports. This should include a mechanism for sharing the assessment reports generated by the process with the faculty teaching General Education courses and the university community.
• Discuss responsibility for review of course proposals in special programs (e.g., Honors) that currently have General Education related courses.
• Work with Academic Affairs on President Davenport's academic excellence and liberal education goals.
A short joint
discussion was
held with the UCAP Committee to being working out the logistical
details of how
course proposals may flow through the two committees.
More discussion is needed and the respective committee
chairs agreed to meet with Academic Affairs to develop a proposal for
consideration
by the two committees.
Meeting
adjourned at 10:10
AM
Respectfully prepared and submitted by Ron Nickerson.