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Wolves in Action General Education Group
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Week 1 - Trends and issues in General Education
- Speaker: Dr. Terrel Rhodes, AACU
- Meeting Minutes
- Zoom video meeting
- June 19, 2019 WAGG Attendees
- David Harding, WAGG Team Lead
- Karen Yanowitz
- Marc Williams
- Bethany Seaton
- Zahid Hossain
- Katherine Baker
- Andrea Davis
- Paul Nunis
- Karen Wheeler
- Summer DeProw
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Week 2 - Exploring the needs of majors and programs
- Speaker:
- Meeting Minutes
- Zoom video meeting
- July 2, 2019 WAGG Attendees
- Bud Kennedy
- Justin Castro
- Karen Blue
- Brinda McKinney
- Christine Wright
- Joe Ford
- David Harding
- Karen Yanowitz
- Marc Williams
- Bethany Seaton
- Zahid Hossain
- Sandra Combs
- Andrea Davis
- Paul Nunis
- Joanna Grymes
- Karen Wheeler
- Summer DeProw
GUESTS -
Week 3 - Rethinking General Education SLO's
- Speaker:
- Meeting Attendees
- Meeting Minutes
- Zoom video meeting
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Week 4 - Summarizing and report writing
- Speaker:
- Meeting Attendees
- Meeting Minutes
- Zoom video meeting
The following synopsis of the Wolves in Action General Education Group was extracted from the Wolves in Action General Education Group’s application (see complete application below) written by Dr. David Harding, Co-Chair of the GEC:
The purpose of this series of workshops will not be to review a specific learning outcome. Instead, it will be consider the framework used to determine the specific student learning outcomes. For example, what is or should be included in the “range of essential areas of knowledge that will enable them to think critically and participate ethically in a democratic nation and a global society.”
If the General Education Program (GEP) is the foundation for student success in a major program of study, the institution should occasionally inspect that foundation as a whole. Currently, the General Education Committee (GEC) assesses the building blocks of that foundation through an assessment of individual courses. There is no mechanism or codified process to examine the structure as such. The workshops for which we ask support will be a first step in that. In essence, we see this as a formative needs assessment, an attempt to set out a roadmap of how the institution can reinvigorate GEP and update it based on current student needs, expert opinion and best practices as currently understood.
In the Spring semester of 2019, the GEC heard from Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Dr. Lynita Cooksey as well as the Deans of three colleges about the importance of the GEP to the university overall and to students within a variety of programs. Dr. Ed Salo offered a presentation on trends in General Education in U.S. higher education. Committee members were also made aware of the ongoing strategic planning process at ASU. Their concerns, along with anecdotal data about enrollments in general education classes and the need to improve student performance within majors vis-à-vis skills presumably learned in GEP, led to the members of GEC, themselves experts and authorities on the topic, to unanimously vote that this project was needed.
Wolves in Action Proposal Application
