Minutes of the General Education Review Committee (GERC)

3:30 p.m. Thursday, October 26, 2006

Morgan 423

 

PRESENT:       D. Adkins, S. Bennett, A. Glotfelty, P. Goodwin, B. Hoon, D. Lane, M. Maskarinec, S. Meiers, J. Miller, K. O’Donnell-Brown, P. Radosh, A. Robertson, A. Shouse, M. Sinex, D. Zoerink

 

ABSENT:         L. Baker-Sperry, M. Byerly, J. Choi, J. Dallinger, T. Pfafman

 

EX OFFICIO:   C. McLaughlin, J. Schmidt

 

GUESTS:          none

 

I.  Approval of Minutes for October 12, 2006 meeting.

Corrections:

In the last line of section III in should read “College of Fine Arts and Communication”.

 

II.  Announcements

A.  Aimee Shouse (GERC), Fred Isele (CIE), John Miller (CAGAS and FLGI) and Nancy Parsons (CCPI) met with the Faculty Senate Executive Committee on Tuesday, October 24 to discuss the Foreign Language and Global Issues (FLGI) requirement as it relates to their councils. Extensive notes on their discussion are included in the minutes from the meeting. No decision was reached at the meeting. Discussion of the FLGI requirement was put on the agenda for the October 31st Faculty Senate meeting. Aimee Shouse encouraged members of GERC to attend the Senate meeting.

 

B.  Aimee Shouse will bring the recommendations of the Assessment Task Force to the next GERC meeting for discussion.

 

III.  Discussion of WIU’s General Education Goals

We currently list category-specific goals in our undergraduate catalog. Category Subcommittee B proposed moving back towards curriculum-wide goals. John Miller suggested that our category-specific goals are more like objectives and the preamble paragraph in the description of the University General Education Curriculum contains the actual goals. After discussion of the pros and cons of removing or replacing the category-specific general education goals, it was decided that they should remain intact and the general goals included in the aforementioned preamble paragraph should be stated more explicitly. In addition, it was suggested that goals relating to both ethics and sustainability be included in the revised paragraph. Aimee Shouse agreed to rewrite the preamble paragraph to address these issues. She will circulate the draft via email so that discussion and revision of the goals can take place before the next GERC meeting.

 

Meeting adjourned at 4:20 p.m.

 

Next Meeting at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, November 9th, Morgan 423

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Steve Bennett