Presentation on general education reform for faculty teaching in Webster's first-year seminars (the "Great Thinker Seminars")

1. Great Thinkers Seminars Workshop Update from the Global Citizenship Project Task Force May 11, 2010

2. Arrow Process Why use graphics from PowerPointing.com? Program Design; Assessment Plan “ transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence” You are here. What students experience “ core competencies for responsible global citizenship in the 21st century” Purposeful pathways and a plan for telling whether they work Learning Goals & Outcomes Program Content Program Mission University Mission The General Education Reform Process May, 2010

3. Global Citizenship Project Task Force Members Bruce Umbaugh, Stephanie Schroeder, John Aleshunas, Robin Assner, Larry Baden, Donna Campbell, Gary Glasgow, Paula Hanssen, Kit Jenkins, Gary Kannenberg, Vicki McMullin, Kate Parsons, Chris Risker, John Watson, Benjamin Akande, Debra Carpenter, Brenda Fyfe, Peter Sargent, David Wilson, Ted Hoef, Ron Daniel, Kim Kleinman, Emily Bahr

9. Impact of Educationally Purposeful Practices on First Academic Year GPA by Pre-College Achievement Level *Source: George Kuh , High Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter (AAC&U, 2008) and Carol Geary Schneider, “Helping Students Connect”

10. Impact of Educationally Purposeful Practices on First Academic Year GPA by Race/Ethnicity *Source: George Kuh , High Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter (AAC&U, 2008) and Carol Geary Schneider, “Helping Students Connect”

11. Impact of Educationally Purposeful Practices on the Probability of Returning for the Second Year of College by Race *Source: George Kuh , High Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter (AAC&U, 2008) and Carol Geary Schneider, “Helping Students Connect”

13. Things we learned

15. Large, varied array of courses Limited number of carefully constructed courses Any course at any time Developmental model Academic class experience only Involve complete undergraduate experience How should learning be organized to achieve the outcomes?

20. What we have so far

23. 1. The Faculty Assembly encourages the Task Force (a) to continue developing the Global Citizenship Program in the directions it has indicated so far, (b) to work collaboratively with academic departments to ensure that no undergraduate major be compromised or disadvantaged by the change in general education programs, and (c) to work collaboratively with other parts of the University to prepare for eventual implementation.

24. 2. The Faculty Assembly endorses in principle the idea of a more purposeful program structure such as the Task Force has presented in Appendix 2.

25. 3. The Faculty Senate shall create a Global Citizenship Program Review Committee with authority to oversee coding of courses and other experiences for implementation of the Global Citizenship Program, subject to approval of clear implementation guidelines by the Faculty Assembly. All five schools/colleges shall be represented on the membership of the Committee. Implementation: No later than September 30, 2010.

26. What we don’t have yet

30. Discussion