Minutes of the General Education Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
5241 N. Maple Avenue, M/S TA 43
Fresno, California 93740-8027
Office of the Academic Senate
Ext. 8-2743 Fax: 278-5745

Members Present: A. Lawson (Chair), R. Badruddoja M. Calvarese, B. Berrett, D. Christensen, D. Henriques, S. Lee, D. Nef, J. Tatsumura, S. Xiong (student).

Members Absent: S. Lewis (excused), Selena Farnesi (student).

The meeting was called to order by Chair A. Lawson at 11:00 p.m. in Library Rm. #4164.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 1/29/10 & 2/12/10.

  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the agenda as distributed.

  3. Communications and Announcements.

    GE Assessment Meeting in Seattle February 18-20, 2010.

    • Move from distribution model to outcomes model – distributed over the years moving up in Bloom’s taxonomy
    • Eastern Michigan University developed common rubrics
    • Accreditation reps - “GE has become too elaborate and overbuilt”
    • Global Competence group – 40-50% in attendance met requirement with a course the rest met their requirement across the curriculum

    • Analysis of Seniors exit survey on writing presented

      • Ideas were presented to improve communication of the writing policy:

        • College Assembly
        • Email list of GE faculty

      Clarify what iterative means

  4. GE Program Description and Writing Requirements.

    • The current GE program description document was reviewed in order to clarify language and reflect EO 1033.
    • The committee would like to separate policy from procedure in the document.
    • Student learning outcomes will be inserted into the document at the appropriate places and committee members will review sections appropriate to their college and email revisions out to the group prior to the next meeting.

MSC to adjourn at 1:00 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the General Education Committee will be February 12, 2010.

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