Saint Mary's College General Education

Friday, April 16, 2010

April 16, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting

Present: Chris Cobb, Janet Fore, Kitty Green, Joe Incandela, Michael Kramer, Don Paetkau, Laurel Thomas

Guests: Patricia Fleming

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Joe briefed the committee on recent developments relating to the approval of the GenEd curriculum at the April 8th Academic Affairs meeting.

The rest of the meeting was devoted to planning for the April 23rd presentation to the Board of Trustees. A rehearsal will be held at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, April 21st.

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SMC Links

• Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on General Education
• Charge to the Committee
• SMC Strategic Task Force on Gen. Ed.
• SMC Gen. Ed. Goals Statements
• Higher Learning Commission Report
• Saint Mary's Gen. Ed. Requirement
• 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
• SMC Models 1.1
• 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

• March 26, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• March 19, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• February 19, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• February 12, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• February 5, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• January 29, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• January 22, 2010, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• December 16, 2009, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• December 2, 2009, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
• November 18, 2009, Ad Hoc Committee Meeting

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