GE Meeting May 26, 2015

GEGB Meeting Details

  • Meeting Time:  10:10 am to 11:00 am
  • Place:  180-110
  • Date:  Tuesday, May 26, 2015
  • Attendance:  Emily Fogle, Clare Battista, Gregg Fiegel, Neal MacDougall, Brenda Helmbrecht, Helen Bailey, Josh Machamer, John Jasbinek,  Bruno Giberti, Mary Pedersen, Camille Lethcoe

Announcements

Business

Discussion and comments on GE Nomination Process


What traits/important qualities do we want to see in our reviewers?

  • Experience/understanding  in:  General Education curriculum, CSU, Polytechnic emphasis, GE innovation, GE changes, cross-disciplinary experience, knowledge of how GE is headed for the 21st century, knowledge of using learning outcomes to fulfill GE areas, knowledge of recent pilot programs such as SB City College, the value of student input.
  • We need two external reviewers and one internal reviewer.  (Internal reviewers are paid a small stipend.)
  • Would we want to include students in the review process?  We would need someone from a leadership roll and we would need to know what would be asked of them.

Discussion/Comments on Proposing Courses for GE and Mission Statement/Goals

  1. serve the entire university, including non-majors.
  2. are taught by qualified instructors with disciplinary expertise.
  3. provide disciplinary breadth for students enrolled in the courses.
  4. promote flexibility for students in choosing GE courses.

Discussion/Ideas

Possible suggestions for editing Bullet 1
Relook at words "entire university"  Suggestions:
Available to students across the university
Serve a variety of students, majors and non-majors
Need clarification on Bullet 4 - will research with Rachel Fernflores

  • New Draft of GE Mission Statement

The General Education Program is one of the primary sites for realizing Cal Poly’s vision of a comprehensive polytechnic education. The program promotes an understanding and appreciation of the foundational disciplines that ground all intellectual inquiry. It enriches the specialized knowledge acquired in a major program with an understanding of its scientific, humanistic, artistic, and technological contexts. The program imparts knowledge and transferable skills, fosters critical thinking and ethical decision making, supports integrative learning, and prepares students for civic engagement and leadership.

  • New Paragraph - Draft

General Education courses should serve all Cal Poly students.  GE courses provide an opportunity for students to work with peers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary backgrounds to develop habits of mind that complement their chosen field of study.  GE courses help students reach across disciplines to provide them with a breadth of experiences.

  • GE Program Goals

Cal Poly's GE Program seeks to promote connections between the various GE Areas areas so students and faculty will perceive GE courses as interrelated rather than as isolated fragments. By placing basic  foundational knowledge in a larger context, each course in the program should provide a vision of how its subject matter is an important component of General Education.   Further, GE courses will help Sstudents should understand the value of a discipline being studied as well as its relationship to other disciplinesthe students’ major. Students are encouraged to complete foundational courses as early as possible.

Discussion/Ideas

  • Are the goals easier to read as bullets?
  • Should the new paragraph be stated in the goals section
  • Idea to brainstorm on more goals for program at a future meeting

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