Meeting of the Faculty Senate
General Education Committee
10/5/09
325 Main Hall
Meeting convened at 3:35pm, Galbraith presiding
Attending: Michael Current, Anne Galbraith, Tom Gendreau,
Gerald Iguchi, Jean Hindson, James Pierce, Tom Pribek, Bob Ragan,
Don Sloan, Kara Zweig
Guest & Consultants: Chris Bakkum, Bill Cerbin, Bob Hoar,
Betsy Morgan, Tim Walls
M/S/P, approve minutes of 9/21/09, adding Hindson to attending;
voice vote, unanimous
Request by Morgan:
- "shifting categories" of SLOs to match UW System Shared Learning
Goals, "5 big categories with explanatory comment for each"
- "nothing particularly magical " about UWl SLOs;
UWL "part of a larger college atmosphere"
- M/S/P, align our SLOs to System Shared Learning Goals;
voice vote, unanimous
- further discussion by email
Presentation by Hoar
- assessment co-ordinator may still be hired/in place by
July 1, 2010; search committee in place; position description
will be forwarded to GE; not clear whether GEC will have
member of search comm.
- need data for response to The Higher Learning Commission,
about structure & assessment of GE
- suggestions by GEC members
1. review/re-organization by SLOs, envisioning GE as a 4-year
program which "may have gone too far" for faculty,
requiring a "step bacK"; considerable program review, but
hardly a matter of doing nothing
2. approval of aligning SLOs to System
3. creation of a GE Director
4. "freshman tier" proposal, while preserving flexibility for
students
5. CLA data breaks down into some items directly addressed by GE
6. GQA & its additional resources
7. report from GEAC: 48% of courses indicate assessment will
prompt pedagogic changes
Meeting adjourned at 4:45pm
Notes compiled by Pribek