Meeting of the

Faculty Senate General Education Committee

April 13, 2009

325 Main Hall

Meeting convened at 1:17pm

Members Attending: Michael Current, Anne Galbraith (presiding), Jon Fields, Eric Kraemer, Erik Kahl, Tom Pribek, Cris Prucha, Bob Ragan, Don Sloan

Consultants: Carla Burkhardt, Amelia Dittman, Bob Hoar

Excused: Tom Gendreau

M/S/P, minutes of 3/30/09; voice vote, unanimous

First look at THA 201, course retitled from Honors; official reading will occur when dept. rep is available

Resume SLO review

- some feedback from dept. chairs responding to previous revisions

- some new tinkering & broad questions

1. program/SLO size: every student should achieve all SLO

among variety/abundant number of courses? Should we rather

have focus for everybody (b/c "general" means everyone),

a disclaimer for either, or what?

2. Do SLOs & headings, which were conceived for a new "core"

of different categories, match existing 4 categories?

3. Will attrition (no assessment of particular SLO) naturally

eliminate some objectives?

- Question to instructors: could you find the primary learning outcome in this list? Did you just pick the closest available? Is there an alternative that you could suggest?

- present tinkering will be reflected in next draft

Meeting adjourned at 2:55pm

Notes compiled by T Pribek