Revising our General Education Curriculum by May, 2017

Dear Colleagues, We have a challenging second half of the semester. As you know, we’ve been engaged in a curriculum revision process that began several years ago in Curriculum Committee and then moved to our ad hoc committee to determine whether we wanted to pursue a curriculum revision. We approved that committee’s recommendation that we …

Materials and models for Critical Perspectives curriculum discussion on March 15

LAGER has prepared two documents for the Critical Perspectives discussion we are holding March 15th in the Collaboratory space in Hege Library. These are a set of slides that describe their ideas for incorporating Critical Perspectives and a memo summarizing what they are presenting. Note that the model they’re using here is their updated model …

Discussion on Critical Perspectives – Wednesday, March 15, 3:45 p.m.

LOCATION CHANGE: This event will be in the Collaboratory in Hege Library, NOT in the Gilmer Room. We will host a discussion during the reserved time on Wednesday, March 15th, at 3:45 pm, centered around the concerns that have been raised recently about the curricular elements we currently house in the Critical Perspectives requirements, namely …

Clerk’s/LAGER joint meeting on February 23, 2017

Meeting record – February 23, 2017 Clerk’s Committee met jointly with the Liberal Arts General Education Revision committee (LAGER) to discuss the process and strategies for Spring 2017 for moving forward with general education revision. The joint group elected to call a faculty meeting for March 1st to allow LAGER to present their latest model, …

Discussion area for Faculty Forum on Curriculum Revision, February 15, 2017

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 …

Notes from Curriculum Revision forum on January 25th

I took notes during the forum on general education curriculum revision that we had on January 25th, and I thought I’d share them here, expanded a bit from my scribblings. These topics and concerns are not a complete reflection of all that we covered, but they might help give a sense of some of the topics raised. …

Comments from the Curriculum Discussion

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 …

LAGER Committee Minutes 10/20/16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 10/20/16 Present:  Lavon, Melanie, Damon, Kyle(chair), Caleb, Drew(rec.) Minutes from 10/6/16 were approved and posted to the MoonRoom site New info from the writing director Cohort of students that place directly into HP is larger than initially thought 60-70 students New curriculum currently requires ENG 102 of all incoming students Discussion …

LAGER Committee Minutes 10/6/16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 10/6/16   Present:  Kyle (chair), Darla, Caleb, Melanie, Lavon, Damon, Drew (rec.)   Minutes from 9/29/16 were approved Questions moving forward How many majors/programs already require a specific QL? Which documents should be edited moving forward, which are locked? Shared docs from 9/29 faculty meeting should be locked – no longer …