Meeting of the Faculty Senate
General Education Committee
325 Main Hall
7 February 2011
Meeting convened, 3:40pm or so, by A. Galbraith (after CLA chairs
stayed unconscionably late)
Attending: Michael Current, Anne Galbraith, Tom Gendreau, Maria Ly,
Michelle Pettit, James Pierce, Tom Pribek, David Riley
Excused: Rafique Ahmed, Jean Hindson
Guests & consultants: Patrick Barlow, Amelia Dittman, Tim Walls
M/S/P, minutes of 1/31/11, voice vote, 1 abstaining
Chair’s report/query: discuss an “appeal” for assessment instrument?
Bryan Kopp, for WE/WIMP/CATL
- program very decentralized; WIMP operates mostly on dept. level
- no obligation to report assessment beyond dept. annual report to
dean or 7-yr. Academic Program Review?
- desire to create questionnaire similar to NSSE survey of students;
(we have access to national data for making comparisons)
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presentations/review of WE instructor applications: defer vote to
approve individual proposals till next GE meeting
Patrick Barlow, assessment coordinator/CATL
- present 1-page summary, model for each GE category, from three data
streams (GE data, CLA, NSSE), with recommendations & rationale (own
interpretation of data): highlights from longer the reports with raw
dataof Fall term
- advertising for increase in student participation for CLA & NSSE
adjourned 4:45pm