At the committee s final meeting Paul Lepp was elected GE Chair for

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1 General Education Committee Final Report Academic Year Members: D. Ringrose W. Gamas L. Willoughby P. Lepp W. Cebulak N. Hopkins A. Smith L. Geller B. Ghimire M. Cantone The GE Committee scheduled meetings every two weeks and convened at those times when it had business. After extensive meeting-time scheduling attempts, Dr. Cebulak indicated he could not meet at any of the times common to the rest of the committee. Subsequently Dr. Hopkins took his place, a process completed in consultation with the Faculty Senate President. The committee s business this year included: - clarification of the GE web site and pages to reflect current GE requirements and process - organization of the box of applications and support materials for the new GE. This task will continue over the summer with the aim of digitizing these materials. - discussion and approval for additions, deletions, and changes to courses qualifying for Foundational Content or for Developmental Content. - discussion and approval or denial of student requests to equate particular transfer courses with elements of the developmental content requirements. - initial discussions, plus a short forum on assessment day, on the possible addition of some sort of technology requirement to general education. - coordination with the Assessment Committee regarding HLC and GE assessment. At the committee s final meeting Paul Lepp was elected GE Chair for listing meeting discussion and different proposals are attached. Support documents and forms related to GE changes were submitted to the Faculty Senate for approval and added to the FS Sharepoint site for each of those FS meetings. Respectfully Submitted, Dan Ringrose Chair of General Education

2 GE Meeting Summary 9/27, 2:00 PM Present: Ringrose, Geller, Gamas, Willoughby, Lepp, Blake (replacing Cantone); absent: Ghimire, Cebulak (class at this time), Hopkins 1. Review of last year s activity: Spring presentation on GE and assessment, organization in VPAA s office of the box into database of materials with approvals, syllabi, and assessment instrument for developmental ge courses. This work is ongoing. 2. Discussion of charge from Faculty Senate to address dean language and committee composition. Vote to recommend eliminating the position and wording related to the dean from the GE committee. Committee voted in favor. 3. Discussion of meeting time and schedule. 2:00 Wednesdays, every other week worked for all present; Dr. Cebulak cannot meet early mornings and Thursday created more conflicts, so it was agreed to stick with 2:00 on Wednesday and to cancel if no business was required. 4. Election of secretary, Warren Gamas agreed, starting next meeting. Adjourned: 2:45

3 Minot State University General Education Committee 10/12/2017: 2pm, Old Main Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Nathan Hopkins, Lori Willoughby, Laurie Geller, Ashley Blake for Melissa Cantone, Paula Cabatigam (student proxy) Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith 1) Lori Willoughby moved to approve BIOL 330 for IP2. Nathan Hopkins seconded. Committee approved this motion. 2) Paul Lepp moved approval of the 9/27/2-17 minutes. Nathan Hopkins seconded. Committee approved this motion. Action items: 1) Dan Ringrose and Lori Willoughby will be drafting text that might be a marketing or elevator speech on Minot State University s General Education. 2) Lori Willoughby will be sharing information regarding how technology courses have been implemented across NDUS campuses as part of their General Education requirements. Warren Gamas

4 11/8/2017: 2pm, Old Main Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Nathan Hopkins, Lori Willoughby, Laurie Geller, Ashley Blake for Melissa Cantone Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith, BiKalpa Ghimire 1) Willoughby moved to approve minutes, Nathan Hopkins seconded, approved. 2. review of HLC visit & GE Dr. Geller discussed HLC's visit and questions they presented that pertained to GE. MiSU will receive a report next week with opportunity to rejoin any issues. 3. update on the record keeping project on the box of ge courses and assignments and rubrics 4. Lori s request that we discuss adding a technology requirement to GE; she s sent a document to consider (Located in the Review Folder: 11/8/17 Meeting folder). We will invite Scott Kast (chair, Math and CS) to meet with our committee. 4. Other? Action items: 1) Dan Ringrose and Lori Willoughby will be drafting text that might be a marketing or elevator speech on Minot State University s General Education.

5 pm, Old Main Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Nathan Hopkins, Melissa Cantone, Lori Willoughby, Laurie Geller Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith, BiKalpa Ghimire, Guest: Scott Kast 1) Scott Kast presented regarding Computer Science as a GE course. Dr. Ringrose suggested that we invite the Science chairs for comment. 2) Math 378 Warren will request more details regarding content. (syllabus) 3) Box works continues

6 pm, Old Main Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Nathan Hopkins, Melissa Cantone, Lori Willoughby, Laurie Geller Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith, BiKalpa Ghimire, Guest: Scott Kast 1) from were approved. 2) Lori Willoughby motioned to authorize Math 378 as a General Education Math Foundation course. Paul Lepp seconded. The motion passed. 3) Warren Gamas motioned to authorize CS 111 to meet the CCS 1 requirement. Paul Lepp seconded and the motion was approved. 4) Lori Willoughby motioned to authorize ART 180 to meet the PSR3 requirement. Nathan Hopkins seconded. Motion approved. 5) Input from our faculty at large was request on the subject of whether a technology lab course would be added to the options for the foundational science requirement for MiSU students. The request was for this discussion to be added as one session on assessment day so that more faculty voices may be heard on the issue. 6)

7 pm, Old Main No quorum so the agenda is pushed to the 7 th of Feb. Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Melissa Cantone, Lori Willoughby Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith, BiKalpa Ghimire, Nathan Hopkins, Laurie Geller IP1 Transfer request sent by Eileen Solberg for a student 3. update on assessment day / discussion of technology requirement 4. Biology course for foundational content (FC2) 5. Nursing Request re CCS4 and IP2-6. Int 095 request for PSR2

8 pm, Old Main Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Melissa Cantone, Lori Willoughby, Nathan Hopkins Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith, BiKalpa Ghimire, Laurie Geller 1. Laurie Willoughby moved, Nathan Hopkins seconded i. Substitute for UNIV 110 ii. Does not meet IP2 Motion passed 2. Nathan moved, Paul seconded to approve GEOG 289 for CCS1 2. Motion passed 3. Melissa presented a request for Julio Romero that Health 011 from Wes

9 pm, Old Main Present: Dan Ringrose, Warren Gamas, Paul Lepp, Melissa Cantone, Lori Willoughby, Nathan Hopkins Not Present: Wojciech Cebulak, Aili Smith, BiKalpa Ghimire, Laurie Geller 1) M. Lodoen request to count UND University Studies as FYE / Univ i) Laurie Willoughby moved, Nathan Hopkins seconded Substitute for UNIV 110 ii) Does not meet IP2 Motion passed 2) Nathan moved, Paul seconded to approve GEOG 289 for CCS1 Motion passed 3) Melissa presented a request for Julio Romero that Health 011 from West Los Angeles Community College for PSR3 a) Lori Willoughby moved, Nathan Hopkins seconded to approve the request. Motion passed Paul Lepp was nominated to be Chair for the academic year. Motion passed.

10 GE April 18, :pm, Old Main Present: Ringrose, Willoughby, Lepp, Hopkins, Cantone Absent: Smith, Ghimire, Geller, Gamas, Cebulak 1. Discussed proposal to include GEOG 298 as Foundational Content and as CCS1. Moved, Seconded, Approved. 2. Discussed student request to count UNIV 189 from UND as meeting MSU s IP2 requirement. Not approved, as course does not include out-of-class intercultural experience. 3. The Committee agreed to defer discussion of a technology requirement until Fall The Committee unanimously elected Paul Lepp to serve as Chair for