Final LAGER Committee Minutes 12/3/15
Present: Kyle (chair), Lavon, Caleb, Dale, Jennie, Melanie, Drew (recording), Stephanie, Suzanne, Damon
Meeting opened with a moment of silence 8:35am
- Minutes from 11/19/15 approved with no edits
- Action item – Drew will post to Moon Room site
- Past Action Items:
- Follow up with ACC&U summer conference application
- in progress
- Discussion of Feb. GenEd ACC&U Conference attendance
- Follow up with ACC&U summer conference application
- Action Item – Lavon will email group about pre-conference sessions for Feb. Conference
- Debrief from 12/2/15 faculty meeting
- issue of representation
- LAGER committee has previously discussed this issue on this committee
- Question as to include this committee on the list of committees that lack diverse representation
- Should this committee contact Clerk’s regarding this issue?
- Suggestion to continue reaching out to our Diversity Action Committee Liaison – Eva Lawrence – and engaging larger community
- Committee will not reach out to Clerk’s committee at this time but will continue to discuss this issue in the future
- LAGER update debrief
- reaction seemed positive in the meeting
- issue of interdisciplinary major came up again
- should this issue be addressed by LAGER in revision process
- this falls under graduation requirements
- Action Item – Drew will post slide set from faculty meeting to Moon Room site
- Action Item – Drew will email faculty away about faculty meeting update
- issue of representation
- Planning for January Term
- Discussion of committee availability
- Discussion of goals for J-term
- create a draft framework of curriculum
- discussion of how to start
- using current and peer models, GELO’s, SACS
- Action item – Suzanne and Melanie will create reading list for J-term
- looking at models from peer and aspirants
- look at schools like Guilford
- Colleges that change lives list
- looking for examples that reflect the heatmap
- Meeting times
- start with two retreat days on Jan 4-5 1:00pm-4:00pm
- rest of schedule will be developed as we go
- Review of Semester
- committee formation
- obtained budget support
- pursuing outside funding
- Five face to face meetings with Faculty
- three faculty meetings
- incubator session
- community forum
- good feedback from faculty/community
- suggestion to create clear goal calendar
- Action item – Drew will create new doodle poll with smaller blocks
- suggestion to
- Meeting closed with a moment of silence