LAGER Committee Minutes 9-22-16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 9/22/16   Present: Kyle (chair), Caleb, Suzanne, Melanie, Stephanie, Lavon, Drew (recording)   Minutes from 9/15/16 were approved New Business Chair had meetings with Stephanie Chang, Steve Mencarini Good productive meetings Support from both for what LAGER is developing We have a new rep from CCE, Darla Lee Final draft of …

Compensation Committee Updates

Compensation Committee has asked me to share with the community the following items. These are located on the Committees@Guilford Google Drive folder in the Faculty Meetings section under the September 28 2016 Meeting. The items are: The Faculty Salary subcommittee’s report from last May 2016 The updated recommendations from the subcommittee from September 2016 A set of slides …

How to write your professors

[Link from Tom Guthrie] Everything here is good advice, except at Guilford our Quaker tradition makes some (note, only some, not all) faculty comfortable with first names and no honorific. How to email your professor without being annoying by Laura Portwood-Stacer, at Medium.com, April 2016

Early release of general education proposal documents by LAGER

Friends, The Liberal Arts General Education Revision (LAGER) Committee is honored to share our first full draft proposal for Guilford College’s next curriculum. This curriculum will support thousands of future Guilfordians. As Jane has mentioned, Guilford is a “small college of excellence doing a few things splendidly.” We believe our next curriculum supports that vision …

LAGER Committee Minutes 9-15-16

LAGER Committee Minutes 9/15/16   Present: Kyle (chair), Caleb, Lavon, Melanie, Stephanie, Barb (FYS), Drew (recording), Damon   Minutes from 9/8/16 were approved Old business Feedback from Dept. Chairs meeting Meeting did not happen Barb Boyette Chair posed question as to what aspects are important to a first year experience? Do not eliminate some sort …

LAGER Committee Minutes 9-8-16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 9/8/16   Present: Kyle(chair), Damon, Melanie, Stephanie, Lavon, Drew (recording)   Minutes from 9/1/16 approved with minor edits Kyle will reach out to both student governments about student representation on the committee Dave Dobson – faculty meeting joined the meeting Clerk’s committee planning on LAGER speaking at Sept. 28 faculty meeting …

LAGER Committee Minutes 9-1-16

Final LAGER Minutes 9/1/16   Present: Kyle(chair), Suzanne, Melanie, Stephanie, Damon, Lavon, Damon, Drew (recording)   Minutes from 8-25-16 were approved with minor edits Clerk of faculty will join LAGER at 9:45pm on 9-8-16 Meeting will begin at 9:30am Debrief from 8-31-16 community meetings Committee needs a unified description of the curriculum Consider further developing …

LAGER Committee Minutes 8-25-16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 8-25-16   Present: Kyle (chair), Suzanne, Melanie, Drew (recording), Damon, Lavon   Meeting opened at 10:10am with a moment of silence   Discussion of feedback from opening community meeting Feedback was minimal New points of discussion Quantitative Literacy Not a part of the current catalog language How to visualize integrated QL …

When do we teach?

I did the following analysis while talking with Beth about our fall calendar, and I thought it might be interesting to share. This is the number of courses by time slot for fall 2016: Some notes: All courses listed with times are counted regardless of credits. That means labs are included. For courses that overlap …