GE Meeting September 30, 2014

Meeting Date, Time, Attendance

• Date:  Tuesday, September 30, 2014
• Place: 10-241
• Time: 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
• Attendance
  Brenda Helmbrecht, GE Chair (CLA), Josh Machamer (CLA), Emily Fogle (CSM), Clare Battista (OCOB), Katie Tool (GE/Academic Programs and Planning),  Gregg Fiegel (Engineering), Camille O'Bryant (CSM),  Mary Pedersen (Academic Programs), Neal MacDougall (CAFES), Bruno Giberti (Architecture), Charlotte Rinaldi (Career Services)

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Announcements

• GE meeting documents will be provided in "Briefcase" to GEGB members.
• Critical Thinking Workshops October 2 and 3, 2014 (PAC/Pavilion)
  Dr. Peter Facione and Dr. Carol Gittens
  Keynote:  Thursday, Oct 2  11:00 am to 12:30 pm
  Discipline Specific Sessions
  Friday, October 3 - STEM 9:00 to 10:30 am
  Friday, October 3 - Professional 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
  Friday, October 3 - Humanities, Social Sciences and GE 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
   
• University/GE Writing Assessment - will be led by Matt Luskey (CTLT). 
  The first meeting will be held Tuesday, October 7.
  (Brenda Helmbrecht, Dawn Janke, Kathryn Rummell, Bruno Giberti, Linda Bomstad) 
  
  Preliminary strategies/plans will be discussed.  This assessment will be a continuation of the writing assessment that was part of the ULO project.  Results were reported in the WASC EER report (WASC.calpoly.edu).  Students showed great writing progress the first year and a leveling off in the second year.  Matt Luskey and the committee will use previous data to see if there are any shifts in performance in grade levels as well as across disciplines.  Writing samples will be collected in winter/spring 2015. 
   
• University/GE Quantitative Reasoning Assessment (QR)
  The QR Learning Community is forming.  Please contact Mary Pedersen if you are interested in being part of this group. (mpederse@calpoly.edu)  We need one representative per college.

Business

Charges for 2014-15 include GE Program Review and GE Curricular Review.

• GE Course Reviews for 2015-17 Catalog
  Brenda will review guidelines for reviewing GE course proposals on October 7, 2014.
  GE courses and modifications will be reviewed by college in the same review sequence as the Academic Senate Curriculum Committee.  A brief overview of the new electronic system was provided.  Additional training will follow next week. 
   
• GE Student Survey
  Results of the GE survey were discussed.  A report will be provided to the campus in the GE Program Review documents. 
• GE Faculty Survey
  A new GE faculty survey will be developed to mirror some of the questions in the GE Student Survey.   A timeline will be developed for development and distribution of the survey.