GE Meeting November 15, 2013

• Date:  Friday, November 15, 2013
• Place: 10-241
• Time: 9:10 am to 10:00 am
• Attendance
  Josh Machamer, GE Chair, Helen Bailey (Office of the Registrar), Tal Scriven (CLA), Bruno Giberti (CAED), Emily Fogle (CSM), Camille O-Bryant (CSM), Rachel Kramer (ASI), Clare Battista (OCOB), Mary Pedersen, Katie Tool,  (GE/Academic Programs and Planning), Charlotte Rinaldi-Zuniga, PCS

Updates and Announcements

• AAC&U Conference:  General Education and Assessment
  Disruptions, Innovations, and Opportunities
  Dates:  February 27 - March 1, 2014
• Please review calendars to see if you can attend.  The GE Governance Board is invited as this will assist us in developing our Program Review/Self Study.   Please respond to Katie Tool (mtool@calpoly.edu) to confirm by Wednesday, November 20.  Please let her know if you are willing to share a room, and stay over Saturday night to meet as a group.  Details will follow in regard to Travel 1A forms, airfare and hotel arrangements. 

Business

Review of sub-committees for Program Review

1. Program Learning Objectives/Outcomes - Bruno/Chair
2. Student Experience - Rachel Kramer/Chair  - Will be using a two-pronged approach in the survey.  We want to make sure that this survey does not conflict with the campus climate survey which will be administered in winter quarter.
3. Upper-Division General Education - Brenda Helmbrecht, Camille O'Bryant, Clare Battista
4. Advising - Helen Bailey, Charlotte Rinaldi-Zuniga
5. Branding/GE - Katie Tool, Josh Machamer

Presentation on Program Learning Outcomes Presentation (PDF)

Discussion

• Review status of GE Program - currently, it has 5 content areas (A, B, C, D, F), 20 sub-areas, 53 educational objectives and 127 criteria.
• Emphasis on creating GE Program Learning Outcomes before we can take steps beyond
• We should review the GE Focused Learning Outcomes (GEFlos).  Can we look at interdisciplinary connections between the disciplines
• Need to build on the foundational outcomes before we can integrate
• Need to consider "GE pathways", should consider a GE minor
• What is the definition of GE Breadth in terms of performance?  Students should know why they took the course
• Where should we look in GE?  Should we integrate writing in all areas?
• We need to define in terms of "introduce" and "develop" and include benchmarks (numerical score) to set a minimum expectation.  Is it a 3 at the introductory level?  Is it a 3 at the mastery level? 
• Our timeline to create the PLOs is end of winter 2014.  We can inspire revision at another time.