Here are the images of the posters we created today. Thanks for a useful, challenging meeting. Feel free to continue our discussion in the comments section below. Update to clarify: People were asked to place no sticker if they didn’t care about an issue, but if they did care, they were to place a green …
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The following comments were written on the large sheets at our November 2 faculty meeting during our discussion on the proposed general education curriculum revision. The comments were in four sections: Questions Who will staff the 2-credit seminars? (Why not have two 4-credit seminars?) Where are the Arts? How will students understand this curriculum more …
(data and images from Kyle Dell) At the faculty meeting, faculty were asked for words describing faculty members’ lived experience teaching and learning. Here are the results from the word cloud exercise as processed by the polling website used: Here are the groups’ full submission lists: Engaged Interdisciplinary Integrative Community Communication Writing Interactive Intimate learning communities Participatory Collaborative Creative …
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What we’re up against: A College Without Classes, July 31, 2015, in The Atlantic, by Alana Samuels. Link from Heather Hayton
Hi, all – I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I wanted to see if, before we get immersed in the details of curriculum revision, if there were some basic principles we could all agree on to guide us. I came up with a list of my own, informed by my experience in …
Link credit to Heather Hayton: Why Technology Will Never Fix Education
Melissa Williams found this article on a Mellon foundation grant for implementing a new curriculum at Trinity University. We’re not at the implementation stage yet, but let’s keep this in mind. Their situation sounds like it could be similar to ours – a long time since the last revision, and an interesting new model to …
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The following documents constitute the final report for the ad hoc Curriculum Review committee which was created by the faculty in Fall 2014. The recommendations of the committee (formation of a curriculum revision committee to conduct a major revision of the general education curriculum over the next two years) were approved in faculty meeting on April 29, …
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Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, April 10, 12:45 p.m. Study Abroad/Career Development Conference Room, King Hall Agenda Moment of silence Approval of notes from last meeting, 4/3/15; note taker for this meeting Further student thoughts on general education from CIRP and NSSE—Rich & Stephanie Update on faculty survey …
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Jack Zerbe suggested this piece by Fareed Zakaria as potentially helpful as we consider curriculum revision. Less a defense of the liberal arts and more a statement of their broad entrepreneurial value, as valuable (or perhaps more) than technical skills.