Task Force on General Education

SPAC liaison: Charlie Peltier

Responsibility:

Area I: Educate women to make a difference in a complex world:

Initiative 1: Examine and Renew the current state of General Education
Actions:

1.1 Conduct a systematic review of general education
1.2 Review the structure and governance of general education
Action details (the "matrix" for "Educate Women")

The Timeline (.pdf format - Includes also Educate 1.3)

Most Recent Progress Report

Task Force Members:

Patrick Pierce Interim Associate Dean ppierce@saintmarys.edu

Chris Dunlap
co-chair

Assistant Professor
Chemistry/Physics 		cdunlap@saintmarys.edu
Janet Fore co-chair    
Fran Kominkiewicz

 

  
Gail Mandell Professor, Humanistic Studies gmandell@saintmarys.edu
Amy Oliva Student Representative  
Jill Roberts Student Representative  
Carla Johnson   cjohnson@saintmarys.edu
Charlie Peltier

Associate Professor, Mathematics
Chair, Curriculum Committee

 cpeltier@saintmarys.edu
Mary Ann Traxler Associate Professor, Education mtraxler@saintmarys.edu
Susan Vanek Director of First Year Studies svanek@saintmarys.edu
Patrick White Vice President and Dean of Faculty pwhite@saintmarys.edu
Jennifer Zachman Assistant Professor, Modern Languages jzachman@saintmarys.edu

 

The guidelines for constitution of the task force:

Core members:

Associate Dean of Faculty
Chair of the Curriculum Committee
Assistant to the vice President for Academic Affairs
Director of First-Year studies

Guidelines:

There will be a majority of faculty on the task force. Six faculty members are to be added: four from disciplines that are heavily involved in general education, two from disciplines that are not (with no more than one member from any academic department). For maximum breadth in representation, half of these members will be elected by the Faculty Assembly and half will be appointed.

There will be three student representatives appointed by student government and drawn from the Student Academic Council: one with a major in either arts and letters or social sciences, one with a major in mathematics or science, and one with a major in one of the professional programs.

The Vice President and Dean of Faculty is a nonvoting member of the task force.

Documents for background reading

  1. The Report of the JCC Task Force on Curriculum (2001) Especially:
    Part I - Vision for the Curriculum,
    Part II (Transistion to Strategic Initiatives) the" Initiatives and the structure of curriculum review at the College" and "Brief Overview of Initiatives A. Breadth of learning."
    Part III (The Initiatives) "Initiative A: Breadth of Learning"
    [The whole document is also available in MS Word format - 20 pages]
  2. The current structure of General Education (The "Ways of Knowing" document)
    a. on-line format b. MSWord format
  3. The Saint Mary's proposal (accepted) for the AAC&U Institute on General Education, Asheville, NC Spring 2000 a. on-line format b. MSWord format
  4. Teresa Marcy's summary of the 1973 changes [the big change] to General Education
    a. on-line format b.MSWord format
  5. Discussion of the General Education program in the response to the North Central reaccreditation report (pp22-33 of the response) This is a .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) document
  6. Notes from the Discussion on General Education August, 2002 a.MS Word format or b. Acrobat format


Last updated 11/04/04