GEGB Meeting February 27, 2015

GEGB Meeting Details

• Meeting Time:  10:10 am to 11:00 am
• Place:  180-110
• Date:  Friday, February 26, 2015
• Attendance:  Brenda Helmbrecht, Chair, Gary Laver, Helen Bailey,  Emily Fogle, Greg Fiegel, Rachel Fernflores, Neal MacDougall, Bruno Giberti, John Jasbinek,

Business

1. Executive Order 1100:  Discussion of Changes from EO 1065
   Copy of email from  "Ken O'Donnell" <kodonnell@calstate.edu>
    

   Dear CSU deans and AVPs of undergraduate education,

   The CSU has posted Executive Order 1100, which updates the GE Breadth transfer curriculum with these changes:

   - permits the delay of some lower-division GE until after transfer the CSU, for community college students who earn certain STEM Associate Degrees for Transfer;

   - establishes a minimum grade of C for “Golden Four” courses in written communication, oral communication, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning, so that grade requirements are now the same both for GE certification and for transfer admission eligibility; and

   - phases out the use of “subareas” within Area D Social Sciences.

   You can see the exact changes and new wording in the attached, which marks revisions since the prior Executive Order.  You may also want to update any bookmarks so you get to the current clean copy, available at http://www.calstate.edu/eo/EO-1100.html.

        Ken O'Donnell
        Senior Director, Student Engagement and Academic Initiatives & Partnerships

        California State University Office of the Chancellor
        562-951-4735   kodonnell@calstate.edu

   2.  GE Self Study/Program Review

   • Review of GE Program review outline, timing, and themes.
   • Brief discussion on which survey results  to incorporate into review;  GE student survey, GE faculty assessment survey and WASC EER student survey.
   • Discussion on whether additional GE surveys are needed prior to GE program review.  Recommendation to do a post survey.
   • Discussion on best practices to develop GE/Major communication on GE Program Learning Outcomes.
   • Recommendation to map GE courses in the curriculum to the new GE Program Learning Outcomes.
   • Recommendation to review most recent assessment findings/results from the University/GE assessment of Critical Thinking.