ࡱ> AC@ &bjbjVV 4:<<,hh84+%fGG]]]888$-"f88888]]8]]8]'=\j0%"NT""8888888888%8888"888888888h q: ƽ Council on General Education 21 April 2011 Meeting Minutes Present: Cynthia Struthers (chair), Esteban Araya, Ginny Boynton (secretary), Jongnam Choi, John Hemingway, Douglas Huff, John Miller, Zee Mutairi, Feridun Tasdan, Jess White (vice chair). Ex-officio: Judi Dallinger, Russ Morgan. Guest: Timothy Roberts (History). Absent: Diana Allen, Andrea Hyde, Patrick McGinty. Ex-officio: Judi Dallinger, Candace McLaughlin. Chairperson Cynthia Struthers called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m. in 207A Morgan Hall. Douglas Huff moved approval of the April 7 Minutes, as written, Esteban Araya seconded the motion, and the Minutes were unanimously approved. New Members and Elections of Next Years CGE Officers Dr. Struthers listed those faculty members approved by the Faculty Senate as new members of CGE starting in the Fall: Pengqian Wang, Physics (replacing Feridun Tasdan in the Natural Science/Math category), Dean Zoerink, RPTA (replacing John Hemingway in the Human Well-Being category), and Cheryl Bailey, Communication (replacing John Miller in the Basic Skills, Public Speaking, category). In addition, Keith Holtz, Art, will be nominated at the April 26 Senate meeting to replace Douglas Huff as the new Fine Arts representative on CGE. Dr. Struthers reported that we should have a fully staffed Council before our May 5 meeting. Dr. Struthers plans to invite all new CGE members to join the Council at its May 5 meeting (the final meeting of the 2010-11 academic year), in order to elect officers for 2011-12. At that time, those joining CGE in the Fall will join with those continuing on CGE in the Fall to vote for officers for next year. John Miller suggested that since the CGE Chair now receives ACEs for serving as chair, we should consider holding the election of officers, or at least the election of our new Chair, earlier in the academic year, in the future. He suggested that in December of 2011, we elect the CGE Chair who will take office in August 2012. Dr. Miller pointed out that this would facilitate scheduling changes that might be needed in the CGE Chairs department because of the ACEs the CGE chair receives. Dr. Struthers noted that our Bylaws do not specify when we will hold elections, so there is no reason why we cannot follow this practice, although it would mean that new members appointed by the Senate in April or May of 2012 would not be able to participate in the election. Dr. Miller pointed out that the Senate could make those appointments earlier in the year, to facilitate this process, as they have for CAGAS in the past. Dr. Struthers announced that the Faculty Senate schedule is established for next year and she will provide the schedule of 2011-12 CGE meetings to members at the next meeting. CGE meetings are held on Thursday afternoons during the weeks that the Senate does not meet. The Council decided to continue to meet in 207A Morgan next year because of the need for CODEC facilities to connect to ƽs Quad Cities campus. Feedback Loop Discussion As a follow up to the discussion of the Feedback Loop initiated April 7th, Chairperson Struthers presented three alternatives to the two questions originally posed by Associate Provost Dallinger. Upon discussion of further refinements to the proposed alternatives, a number of CGE members expressed concerns about the intrusiveness of the questions and the impact this information could have for departments and faculty. The Council reviewed the CGE Bylaws and John Miller pointed out that it did not fall within CGEs purview to request information from departments about what changes they were making in their classes or approaches to teaching as a result of their Gen Ed assessment. He said that since the Provosts Office needed that information for institutional accreditation purposes, that the Provosts Office should collect that information, not CGE, which is a council of the Faculty Senate. At this juncture Chairperson Struthers asked how the Council would like to proceed on this issue. John Miller made the following motion, which was seconded by John Hemingway: MOTION: It is the sense of the Council on General Education that the feedback loop does not fall within the parameters of the CGE Bylaws. The Council unanimously approved the motion. Chairperson Struthers agreed to communicate the sense of CGE to Associate Provost Judi Dallinger. Transfer Issues Chairperson Struthers announced that the Social Science vs. Humanities transfer credit issue for History courses taken at community colleges has now been resolved with the Transfer Admissions Office. Jess White raised the issue of handling transfer requests for individual Gen Ed classes next year. This year the chairperson handled them all, which proved to consume a significant portion of her time. Various possibilities were broached, including the Council handling them as a committee-of-the-whole, establishing a transfer admissions subcommittee of the Council, routing them to the various representatives from each area/division, and leaving this as the CGE chairs responsibility. The Council decided to revisit the issue at a later time. Writing Issues Dr. Timothy Roberts, Associate Professor of History, spoke to the Council about his concerns about upper-division students basic grammatical errors in capstone courses. Members of the Council agreed that they have seen this problem in their courses as well, both at the capstone level and among seniors taking General Education courses. Dr. Roberts asked what CGEs goal was for requiring a writing component in all Gen Ed classes, and how CGE ensured that by the time students had completed the General Education curriculum, they had achieved Gen Ed goal number 3 (competence in communicating his or her views and ideas clearly and cogently) and Gen Ed Communications Skills (College Writing) learning objective f (demonstrate control over the conventions of edited American English). Dr. Roberts reported many seniors struggling with basic elements of grammar, such as subject-verb agreement, possessives vs. plurals, and sentence fragments. Dr. Struthers explained that CGE surveys faculty on the amount and kind of writing faculty require in their Gen Ed courses, but John Hemingway pointed out the students report doing less writing than faculty report assigning. Also, each semester CGE reminds faculty teaching Gen Ed courses about the writing requirement for General Education courses. Ginny Boynton gave a brief synopsis of her understanding of the origins and evolution of the universitys Writing Requirement. Some years ago, after employers complained about the illiteracy among ƽ graduates whom they had hired, Dr. Boynton reported, the university instituted the Writing Requirement: students must pass English 180 and 280, multiple writing-intensive (W) Gen Ed classes, an upper-division Writing-Instruction-in-the-Discipline (WID) course, and a Writing Exam, prior to graduation. Dr. Boynton reminded the Council that Faculty Senate has since eliminated the W classes and the Writing Exam. Dr. Hemingway reported that employers are once again reporting concerns about the poor writing ability of many ƽ graduates. Associate Dean Russ Morgan reported that the CAS Faculty Council is also addressing the issue of the poor quality of many students writing, having established a new ad-hoc committee to tackle the issue, originally in the context of ƽ teacher education students poor performance on the grammar portion of the states Basic Skills Test, required for all future teachers. The Council will return to this important issue at a later date. 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