Meeting February 14, 2014

Date: Friday, February 14, 2014
Place: 01-301
Time: 9:10 am to 10:30 am
Attendance
Kathleen Enz Finken, (Provost), Josh Machamer, (GE Chair), Helen Bailey (Office of the Registrar), Brenda Helmbrecht (CLA), Tal Scriven (CLA), Emily Fogle (CSM), Camille O-Bryant (CSM), Katie Tool (GE/Academic Programs and Planning), Charolette Rinaldi (PCS), Mary Pedersen (Academic Programs), Gregg Fiegel (Engineering)

Business

Continued discussion of GE response to NR 264.
NR 264 Natural Resources Economics & Valuation (PDF)
Distribution of preliminary summary results for GE student survey

Addressed committee and thanked them for their work in GE.
Addressed concerns on campus about General Education.
Wants for the committee to look at the role of GE as we move into the future, the potential "flexibility" of the program, review interdisciplinary options, taking into account the needs of the nation. Her goal was that GE be flexible for the entire campus.
Stressed the need to be open minded about what is possible, and to be willing to help departments and colleges get to where they want to go.
Recognition of the "largeness" of the GE program, with the 72 unit requirement (as part of the CSU requirements).
Would like to look at the program as a whole and let down the concerns of departments owning courses.
The GE Governance Board should have recommendations as to how we interpret policy.
Other CSUs have interpreted the guidelines of EO 1065 differently. She wants to empower the committee to do something different.
Concern with the amount of GE courses that students are taking outside of Cal Poly and transferring in. (Both face to face and online courses).
Concern with the assessment of GE courses and developing a process for selecting artifacts, possibly on a rotating basis to ensure that GE outcomes are being met.
Discussion on Engineering Programs, efforts by Dean Larson to use a 192-unit guideline in the curriculum. Some programs are still higher such as Mechanical Engineering (198) and Architectural Engineering (196).

The committee is working on Program Learning Outcomes as one of its charges which will help the committee with its vision for the future
GE is currently is its program review. The results of the GE student survey are one of the aspects that will help us see what student perceptions are.
GE program is concerned with the big picture: student success, curriculum, how we can reduce high fail rates in certain GE courses.

Consensus of committee to continue to work with the department for further development of the course

Consensus of committee to approve HIST 336: Britian at War: The British, the Americans and the Struggle for Freedom