University Studies Advisory Committee: Minutes
April 28, 2010
4pm – 6pm
Attendance: Boomershine, Cilano, Cox, Fort, Gurganus, Moore, Orton, Pemberton, Sawrey, Siefert,
Taylor
Issues:
• Concern: 9% approval rate for this week’s proposals
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If we need to submit a University Studies curriculum by September to the Faculty Senate, when
will faculty be able to revise and resubmit, especially since they have not received our feedback
yet in most cases
o we need to have all approved courses in the University Studies curriculum by the FS
meeting
o maybe we can meet with department chairs to present the courses that need to be
revised as a means to get revisions started
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Can we push back the deadline to spring 2011 or later?
o we need the Administration’s opinion/feedback on this
o the Registrar’s office needs time to build degree audits and the schedule
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Are departments not going to be able to revise and resubmit during the summer?
o if not, we cannot finish by September 2010
o department chairs are 12 month employees and should be able to handle the revisions
themselves
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Can we distinguish wording/minor changes from major changes for Kim?
o this is part of the process – departments need to be responsible or changes
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If we ignore SLOs that are not measurable or actionable, will that be a problem for U.S.
assessment?
o Linda: Definitely. Linda is willing to meet with departments or faculty. Or, we could have
open sessions for departments and faculty to drop in.
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Maybe we could focus on the rationale and SLOs, and not include means of learning and
assessment for the August deadline?
o If and only if they are required to attend workshops to work on learning and assessment
before they offer the course for the first time
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Recommendation: as soon as we go through all of the submissions once, we should invite chairs
to discuss revisions
o do this by department, by component, by common error?
o work in pairs to meet with as many chairs as possible as soon as possible
o perhaps teams could meet with corresponding chairs for their components’ submissions
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How specific do we need to be on the assessment portion of the form?
o Linda has examples of model responses where the means of assessment are relevant to
each SLO
o faculty may respond ‘duh’, that is how we are going to use each quiz/test
o a score of 2 for assessment means the assessment means were not linked to each SLO,
whereas a 3 indicates that the means are SLO-specific
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Cox effect: If the form is bad, but the syllabus is good, do we approve that or send it back?
o the form is very important, as much as the syllabus
o send it back and ask them to revise form with info from syllabus
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overall: keep up our standards and when we meet with chairs encourage them to follow
instructions and revise accordingly
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working in teams worked very well
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transfer students will need to know about Business requirements – we need to encourage them
to submit their common requirements courses
o we could let the transfer students continue under the old BS system until the entire
university is ready (including professional schools)
o this should be part of our recommendation to Faculty Senate
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Are the revised/resubmitted submissions being scored?
o FNA 102 has been resubmitted
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We need to adjust the due date or the meeting time so that Kim has time to come up with a
compiled list of what needs to be discussed and why
o new due date: submit scores Tuesday by noon
Course Submission Review:
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177: PSY 410: IL: approved
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179: PSY 417: CC: approved
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182: PSY 412: CC: approved
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185: ANT 105: HIB: approved
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188: ANT 207: UHIB: approved
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200: EVSL 120: SANW: approved
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216: GGY 435: WI: approved
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217: GGY 436: WI: approved
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226: GLY 470: CC: approved
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236: CLA 330: WI: approved
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238: CLA 210: AIL: approved
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240: CLA 210: WI: approved
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241: CLA 209: AIL: approved
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242: CLA 209: WI: approved
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268: CHM 491: CC: approved
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283: MAT 495: CC: approved
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294: STT 490: CC: approved
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314: CHM 101: SANW: approved
Items for next week:
• finish up your teams’ scoring
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Team 4: look at IL
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Team 2: look at FL
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Team 1: look at MS
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Team 3: finish up QLR
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share scores with team and upload them to scoring system by Tuesdays at noon
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send Kim summer schedule times (when you are available/unavailable)
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next meeting: May 5, 4pm
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