Saint Mary's College General Education

Friday, January 09, 2009

January 9, 2009 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting

Present: Chris Cobb, Janet Fore, Joe Incandela, Charlie Peltier, Patti Sayre

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The committee finalized the agenda for the Development Day on January 9th.

# posted by Joe Incandela @ 1:35 PM

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• Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on General Education
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• Size of the Saint Mary's Gen. Ed. Requirement
• Courses Satisfying SMC Gen. Ed.
• Ways of Knowing Document
• Fall 2006 Faculty Development Day
• College Mission Statement
• "Living the Mission"
• Mission of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
• SMC Models 1.0
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• SMC Models 2.0
• 4/1/07 Student survey on ideal General Education requirement
• Aptitudes for Life (Model B)
• Education for Integrity (Model C)
• Learning Outcomes endorsed by Faculty Assembly (1/23/08)
• Members of Design Team #1 (Learning Outcome #3)
• Design Team #1 Report
• Members of Design Team #2 (Learning Outcome #2)
• Design Team #2 Report
• Members of Design Team #3 (Learning Outcome #1)
• Sub-outcomes for Learning Outcome #1
• Sub-outcomes for Learning Outcome #2
• Sub-outcomes for Learning Outcome #3

General Education Curriculum Guide

• Draft (distributed 2/9/10)
• Revision I-Tracked Changes (distributed 3/3/10)
• Final Revision Approved by Academic Affairs-Tracked Changes (4/8/10)
• Final Revision-Clean Copy (4/8/10)

General Education Feasibility Study

• Feasibility Study
• Feasibility Study Appendices

GenEd Governance

• Faculty Assembly Presentation (12/2/09)

Spring 2010 Faculty Development Day

• Agenda
• Power Point
• Revised Diagram of program
• Revised Outcomes

Fall 2009 Faculty Development Day

• Agenda
• Power Point
• To-Do List
• Revised Diagram of program
• Revised Diagram of program (courses added)
• Wiki for suggesting revisions

Spring 2009 Faculty Development Day

• Agenda
• Narrative overview of program
• Diagram of program
• Diagram of program (courses added)
• Diagram of program (hours added)
• Report from Arts for Living
• Report from Systems and Cultures
• Report from Traditions and Worldviews
• Report from Science for the Citizen

Fall 2008 Faculty Development Day

• Digest of Table Comments
• Agenda
• Report of Design Team #3
• Executive Summary of Report
• Preamble to Program
• Visual Representation of Program
• Learning Outcomes endorsed by Faculty Assembly
• Sub-outcomes for Learning Outcome #1
• Sub-outcomes for Learning Outcome #2
• Sub-outcomes for Learning Outcome #3
• PowerPoint Overview of Program
• PowerPoint Details of Program
• PowerPoint about First-Year Courses
• Presentation about Lecture Series

Spring 2008 Faculty Development Day

• Learning Outcomes Draft
• Survey Results

Fall 2007 Faculty Development Day

• Learning Outcomes Diagram
• Survey General Results
• Survey Results on Models/Integration

Spring 2007 Faculty Development Day

• Gen. Ed. Structures and Models
• Distribution by Discipline
• Distribution by Skills
• Distribution by Knowledge
• Comprehensive Core
• Introductory Core
• Distributive Core
• Unique Structures

General Education Lunches

• 2/26/07 Gen. Ed. Lunch (Faculty comments on models)
• 3/26/07 Gen. Ed. Lunch (Student presentations)
• 11/28/07 Gen. Ed. Lunch (iClicker results)
• 11/28/07 Gen. Ed. Lunch (Revised Learning Outcomes
• 2/27/08 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Learning Outcome #3)
• 3/26/08 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Governance)
• 4/30/08 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Learning Outcome #2)
• 9/24/08 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Critical Thinking) & Accompanying handout
• 4/15/09 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Governance)
• 9/23/09 Gen. Ed. Lunch (Draft of Skills Outcomes) & Accompanying table instructions
• 10/28/09 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Skills)
• 11/23/09 Gen. Ed. Lunch (PowerPoint on Integration)

Faculty Survey

• General Results
• Model A Results
• Model B Results
• Model C Results
• Summary Results
• Survey Correlations

General Education links

• AACU Resources
• AACU's "Liberal Education and America's Promise"
• AACU's VALUE project
• AACU Statement on Liberal Learning
• "What Will They Learn?"
• What learning outcomes are and why they matter
• What is Liberal Education?
• The Greater Expectations Program
• OpenEd Resources for Teaching and Learning
• Teagle Foundation White Papers
• Policy Center on the First Year of College
• "Is Liberal Education a Trivial Pursuit?"
• Critical Thinking Resources
• "What is a Generally Educated Person?"
• "Another Generation of General Education"
• "The Hollow Core"
• "Liberal Education: Then and Now"
• "'Only Connect...' The Goals of a Liberal Education"
• "Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities"
• "Toward a Core Curriculum"
• College Learning for the New Global Century"
• National Study of Student Engagement (NSSE)
• Statement on Integrative Learning
• "Towards Integrated Learning"
• Report to Strengthen Student Learning
• Carnegie Report on Integrated Learning
• Integration and Curriculum
• Integration and Pedagogy
• Integration and Assessment
• Integration and Faculty Development
• "Leading Initiatives for Integrative Learning"
• Diversity in the curriculum
• Assessment of Liberal Education Outcomes
• Learning Outcomes: "A Pedagogical Straitjacket"
• "Institutional Assessment and Student Learning"

Other General Education models

• AACU "Promising Models"
• The Oberlin Group
• First-Year Experiences
• Albion College
• Alverno College
• Antioch College
• Barnard College
• Bates College
• Berea College
• Bluffton University
• Boston University
• Bowling Green
• Calvin College
• Connecticut College
• Duke University
• Earlham College
• Evergreen State College
• Farleigh Dickinson
• Gettysburg College
• Goucher College
• Grinnell College
• Gustavus Aldophus College
• Harvard Gen. Ed. Reform
• IUPUI Six Principles of Undergraduate Learning
• Kalamazoo College
• Linfield College
• Marquette University
• Mount Holyoke
• Occidental College
• Ohio University
• Purdue University
• Rocky Mountain College
• Saint Anselm College
• Saint Xavier University
• Salve Regina University
• Scripps College
• Sewanee
• Sweet Briar College
• University at Albany
• UCLA
• University of Delaware
• University of Maryland
• Villanova University
• Warren Wilson College
• Western Carolina University
• Whitman College

Previous Posts

• January 6, 2009 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• January 5, 2009 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• December 22, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• December 19, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• December 5, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• November 14, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• December 1, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• November 10, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• October 30, 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• October 13, 2008, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting

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