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General Education Committee

Approved Minutes

September 5, 2003

 

Present: Ron Nickerson, Chair,  Johnson Afolayan, Dick Liebendorfer, Jim Rife, Warren Sandmann, Gretta Handke, Kellian Clink, amanuensis

 

1)      We approved the minutes of 8/28. Ron will send to Donna for distribution.

 

2)      General Education Assessment Reports are up on the web.  To get there, go to: http://www.mankato.msus.edu/acadaf/html/GEAssessHome.htm   Thanks, Warren!

 

3)      A deadline of October , 2003 was set as the final deadline for turning in reports from the GECCIGS for the 2002 Ð 2003 General Ed Assessment.  Out there right now close to completion are assessment reports for categories 5, 6, and 7.   GECCIGS for categories 8, 9, and 10 should continuing to collect data during the fall semester for completion of their reports next spring.  The General Education Committee will read, absorb, and write cover letters as we did last year and try to get on the agenda for the Spring Department Chairs' Meeting.  Committee members will share these minutes with those responsible for those reports. Proposals were discussed for the sharing of the assessment. 

 

4)      After additional discussion on sharing the assessment reports, it was decided that a meeting will be held for the GECCIG that wrote the IC (Writing Intensive) report (IC so far being the General Education Category with the widest array of departments represented) to communicate to anyone who is now or will be or is interested in teaching a writing intensive class.  Committee members who wrote IC were: Anne O'Meara, Gretta Handke, Jackie Vieceli, Terry Davis, Nancy-Fitzsimons-Cova  Hal Walberg, Dick Liebendorfer.

 

A proposed time is November 14 at 1 pm. Kellian, Ron and Warren will see to the arrangements for the IC meeting.  We will discuss again communication devices for the other committees.

 

5)      We discussed the flow chart of the path of a course through Gen Ed/UCAP.  Johnson moved and Dick accepted that we approve the new flow chart. Motion  carried.

 

6)      We discussed a regular meeting time for NEXT YEAR. Other committees, it seems, have regularly scheduled times to facilitate committee members being able to schedule their other responsibilities around them.  Dick moved and Jim seconded the motion to meet regularly on Wednesdays at 3 pm beginning with the 2004 Ð 2005 academic year.  Motion carried.

 

7)      We agreed that those of us who can will help with UCAP's training sessions for faculty on filling out the new forms.  Dates and times of the training sessions have not yet been established.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Killian Clink and Ron Nickerson


 

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