Ideas from General Education activity at Faculty Meeting November 4

by Dave DobsonCurriculum Design, Curriculum RevisionPosted on Comments are Disabled

(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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LAGER Committee Minutes – 10/1/15

by Drew HaysCurriculum RevisionPosted on Comments are Disabled

Final – GenEd Revision Committee Minutes 10/1/15   Present – Jennie Knight, Lavon Williams, Melanie Lee-Brown, Damon Akins, Suzanne Bartels, Kyle Dell – Chair, Drew Hays – recording   Regrets – Stephanie Hargrave, Caleb Anderson – student rep   Meeting began with a moment of silence 8:36am, Quaker Village Starbucks   First item – welcome …

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Grant opportunities for curriculum implementation

by Dave DobsonCurriculum Design, Curriculum RevisionPosted on Comments are Disabled

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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Final Report from Ad Hoc Committee For Curriculum Review

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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 Curriculum Review Committee Agenda for Friday, April 17, 2015

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Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, April 17 12:45 p.m. Study Abroad/Career Development Conference Room, King Hall Agenda 1. Moment of silence 2. Approval of notes from last meeting, 4/10/15; note taker for this meeting 3. Review report to faculty—Google doc shared with committee members—please add in portions assigned to you and review …

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Ad Hoc Committee on Curriculum Revision Meeting Agenda for Friday, April 3

by Dave DobsonCurriculum Review Committee, Curriculum RevisionPosted on Comments are Disabled

Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, April 3 12:45 p.m. Study Abroad/Career Development Conference Room, King Hall Agenda 1. Moment of silence 2. Approval of notes from last meeting, 3/27/15; note taker for this meeting 3. Update on mining CIRP or other existing student data about general education—Rich & Stephanie 4. Update on …

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Meeting Notes for Ad Hoc Committee on General Education Curriculum Revision, March 6, 2015

by Dave DobsonCurriculum Review Committee, Curriculum RevisionPosted on Comments are Disabled

GenEd Ad-Hoc Committee 2015-03-06 Attendance: Jennie Knight, Melanie Lee-Brown, Marc Williams, Heather Hans, Stephanie Hargrave, Kathryn Shields, Richard Schilhavy, Jeff Ray, Robert Duncan Missing: Jim Hood Faculty Survey Committee discussed the current state of the faculty survey distributed by Heather via email, and the timeline to distribute the survey to faculty. Marc raised concerns about …

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Meeting notes from Ad Hoc Curriculum Review Committee Meeting, February 27, 2015

by Dave DobsonCurriculum Design, Curriculum Review Committee, Curriculum RevisionPosted on Comments are Disabled

Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, February 27, 2015 1:30 p.m. Meeting notes Present: Richard Schilhavy, Kathryn Shields, Robert Duncan, Jennie Knight, Marc Williams, Melanie Lee-Brown, Heather Hans, Jim Hood Guests: Damon Akins, Michele Malotky, Drew Hays 1. Drew Hays, Michele Malotky, and Damon Akins reported to the committee regarding their recent attendance …

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Ad Hoc Committee for Curriculum Review Agenda for Friday, March 6

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(submitted by Jim Hood) Ad Hoc General Education Curriculum Review Committee Friday, March 6 1:00 p.m. Study Abroad/Career Development Conference Room, King Hall Agenda 1. Moment of silence 2. Appoint note-taker for this meeting 3. Discussion and approval of proposed faculty survey and student survey re: effectiveness of current general education program 4. Discuss key …

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The Value of College

by Dave DobsonCurriculum Revision, New IdeasPosted on One Comment

[From Don Smith] Don says, “As we revamp our Gen Ed program, wouldn’t it be amazing to have outcomes like the ones listed here?” Why we are looking at the value of college all wrong by Christopher Nelson, President of St. John’s College