General Education Assessment Committee
September 29, 2014
Student Union Building, Room 323
Present: Krista Prock (at-large non-teaching faculty), Janice Gasker (at-large teaching faculty), Gil Clary (Office
of Assessment), Varsha Pandya (CLAS), Mary Eicholtz (at-large teaching faculty), Randy Schaeffer (Gen Ed
Committee), Stephen Hensler (COB), Theresa Stahler for George Sirrakos (COE), William Donner (Rep from
SPRC), William Dempsey (Academic Dean), Brent Penny (Admin. & Finance), Danielle Hendricks (Student
Representative).
Absent: Valerie Trollinger (VPA), Kim Shively (at-large teaching faculty).
Prock called the meeting to order at 2:00 pm.
Minutes: Motion was made to accept the Minutes for the September 15, 2014 meeting by Eicholtz, seconded by
Dempsey. Motion carried. These Minutes will be posted to the GEAC website.
Announcements: Prock opened the meeting by asking those in attendance to introduce themselves as there are
new members on the Committee. GEAC has a new student representative, Danielle Hendricks.
Prock reported there was a meeting on September 24th, 2014 between the Provost and the GEAC executive
committee. Prock asked Clary to summarize the meeting. He indicated they discussed designating this year a
‘gap’ year to study and evaluate the information from the assessments conducted, and determine how to use the
information effectively. There is a request from the administration that the GEC and GEAC committees meet
somewhat regularly to discuss their respective committees’ work and responsibilities in order to avoid a
duplication of effort. The Acting Provost would like to simplify the way our general education program is
presented. One change Mackin suggested is to move the thematic courses to the departments. This is under
discussion. One goal is to make it easier for transfer students to complete their degree requirements.
They want GEAC and GEAC to communicate better with the various entities on campus to explore the feasibility
of this possible change. Discussion followed.
Communication with campus groups will begin this semester. The groups include: college assessment
committees, open forums, Senate, APSCUF, etc. Prock asked Schaeffer to put the year 1 and year 2 reports on
the website. We need to decide how to set appointments and start communicating. Pandya, Clary and Prock will
work on this.
Goal 3 report: On the agenda for today’s meeting, Prock listed the domains for Goal 3 and assigned members to
read the reports and prepare a brief reaction to the data presented in the report. In Group I – Domain 3.1:
Dempsey, Donner, Gasker, Hensler; Group II – Domain 3.2: Pandya, Schaeffer, Shively, Penny; Group III –
Domain 3.3: Prock, Sirrakos, Trollinger; and Group IV – Domain 3.4: Clary, Eicholtz, Hendricks. By October
13th, Prock is requesting each group to submit a report which will be included in the year 3 report.
Prock distributed the year 1 and year 2 reports as a basis for the committee’s cumulative report which will be
completed after the year 3 report is composed and submitted. Discussion followed. If we get all the information
from each sub-group by October 13th, then Prock hopes to have a draft of the report completed by October 20th
and open it for committee discussion before finalizing and submission to the Provost.
Curriculum Map: Prock indicated the curriculum map needs to be updated. The Computer Science professor,
Greg Schaper will be in attendance at a meeting to discuss the job and how it can be accomplished. This
meeting will take place before Chairnet. If necessary, we will postpone the committee’s attendance at a Chairnet
meeting – possibly moving our attendance to November.
Mentoring Program: Eicholtz will be in touch with each new member of the committee to begin the mentoring
process and help them get used to the committee.
Meeting adjourned at 2:40 pm.
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