Clerk’s Committee Meeting Minutes
Thursday December 7, 2017 8:30 am
Present: Darryl Samsell, Kathryn Shields (Recording), Dave Dobson (Clerk), Jill Peterfeso, Alfonso Abad Mancheño, Frank Boyd (AD)
Not Attending: Donald Smith,
- Gathering and Moment of Silence –
- Figuring out who’s doing the minutes: Kathryn
- Approval of Minutes from 11/30 – approved
- Meeting Schedule for Spring 2018 –
After some discussion we settled on Thursday mornings at 8:30
We may have to reconsider our time after the shadow clerk is in place in February.
- Art donation for consideration – approved
- Review of December 6 Faculty Meeting –
Start from scratch or start from something existing?
Leaning towards starting from scratch
+ bringing good ideas from previous work
Ideas aggregated by Clerk’s
We see a space in existing curriculum from FYE/FYS, IDS, & the minor
Everyone collaborates at Guilford
Educational experience centered around Collaborative Projects
Shift the curricular frame around them
Collaborative research Ideas/Themes/Problems
can come from both faculty and student interest
And needs to be promoted that way
ex/SFS/the farm, ECAR, CFRB, exploratory
Students’ interests and engagement are crucial
Students can shift their project along the way
Consideration of scaffolding of skills
Relationship of assessment
Every student will have a culminating project
- Personal choice at the spring semester of the junior year (departmental, individual, or collaborative project capstone)
- Project would be ongoing, may be longer than an individual student’s time at Guilford
- Projects themselves determine the interdisciplinary input
We would continue to have majors (+ optional minor)
We need to have a structure in place
Collaborative path including this # of courses
Ideas about how we will begin populating the program
What steps need to be taken
These are the resources/support we need
We will need to come up with a way to present this program
A name? (Legos)
Weekly schedule
Every detail does not need to be decided by January
Meeting time: Friday after exams are over
Called meeting
Not to decide or approve things
Meeting adjourned at 9:55
- For discussion (at a future meeting): Faculty service proposals –