General Education Curriculum Committee (GECCo) Meeting Agenda
October 27, 2010, 1:00 - 2:30 P.M.
Venue: ASB-230
1. GECCo chair issue
2. form subcommittees to divide and conquer the tasks before us
a. AAC&U subcommittee: this sub-committee will present the action plan prepared by the
GECCo team that travelled to the AAC&U Engaging Departments Institute.
Recommendations from the subcommittee should be presented to the larger GECCo
committee.
b. Mathematical Reasoning subcommittee: this subcommittee will devise a method to
assess quantitative or mathematical reasoning in the general education curriculum. The
committee will make recommendations on Gen. Ed. courses or categories to be
assessed, student outcomes to be assessed, and will develop assessment tool(s). This
subcommittee should seek input from the math convening group.
c. Student Learning Outcomes subcommittee: this subcommittee will review the learning
outcomes that currently exists at Ramapo, e.g., ARC Gen. Ed. outcomes, institutional
outcomes and synthesize and distill them to a manageable set of 6 – 8 that can be
assessed on a 2 – 3 year cycle. Methods to combine 2 or 3 SLOs should be considered
so that the efficiency of the assessment process is improved.
d. Curriculum mapping subcommittee: this committee will review the existing General
Education curriculum map and refine it so that learning outcomes are clearly mapped to
the current Gen Ed curriculum. This subcommittee may need to wait for the work of the
SLO sub-committee
3. Collect syllabus from courses being assessed as an secondary (indirect) assessment
4. Continue to review and revise the Writing Assessment Procedure