GE Program Planning Committee (Ad-Hoc)
Charge:
Fall Semester 2020:
- Work out concerns around program scope and governance
- Help the campus understand how the program will benefit students
- Prepare to bring the Program to the full Senate in late fall
- Assess how the GE Program will impact undergraduate curriculum
Longer-Term:
- Anticipate the needs around implementation of GE Program
- Build out elements of the GE Program
- Required metacognitive reading, writing, and/or problem solving for Golden Four
- Required GE Program learning outcomes throughout GE
- Adoption of optional GE themes
- Ensure the coherence of the GE Program
- Build out elements of the GE Program
- Develop an assessment plan for the GE Program
- Make outreach to and identifying interested faculty and courses
- Investigate for whom this “concept theme” would actually work. That is, to which majors/program pathways would the “concept theme” cater? Whose students could fit this into their pathways without increasing time to graduation?
- Develop granular detail for a “concept theme” including courses, numbers of sections, number of students, a living-learning community, and extra-curricular programming
- Develop explicit ideas for how themed courses would be connected to each other
Timeline:
Until the GE Program Proposal is approved by the Academic Senate or May 28, 2021
Composition:
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| GE Program Director, Chair | Swarup Wood |
| GECC Chair | Brad Barbeau |
| CAHSS | Luis Camara |
| COB | Leslie Boni |
| COE | Aimee Escalante |
| CHSHS | TBD |
| COS | Lipika Deka |
| University College | Nelson Graff |
| Library | Ryne Leuzinger |
| FYS | Mercedes Maciel |
| Advising | Sharon Anderson |
| Student Affairs | Derek Gutierrez |
| Associated Students | Marie Alonzo |