Members present: Pat Muir (co-chair), Vicki Tolar Burton, John Bailey, David Bernell, Margie Haak, Susan Shaw (DPD Director, ex-offico), George Caldwell, Cheryl Middleton, Jay Noller (co-chair)
New members: Ken Winograd, College of Education, Liz Gray from HHS joining as ad hoc members
Deb Pence, COE, cannot make it during this time this quarter
Haven’t
heard back from COB, Vickie Nunnemaker will contact COB
Jay Noller is looking
for a student member – ASOSU needs to approve a student, Mike Olson (Pres)
will need to approve any nominated student
Minutes from 2/14 meeting – accepted without change
H312 – Co-chair (Pat Muir) sent hard copy of information to Chair of Department of Health; Liz Gray reported that they would be looking at the information this week and get back to the BCC
Outcomes for various BCC categories – The co-chair (Jay Noller) described how he developed the Learning Outcomes of the BCC. Some discussion among group about how valuable the consolidation of outcomes is; discussion about how Academic Affairs would be creating an assessment based on these outcomes.
Potential recommendation for BC instructors: at end of each BC course have students write a reflection piece related to the outcomes/goals of BC.
Action: Committee to review list of outcomes to identify any gaps, or suggestion for improvements. We need to decide what to pass along for development of assessment effort by Academic Programs (e.g., whole document, single page, common learning outcomes, etc).
Bacc Core Discussion
Fixing or reinventing the Bacc Core: Reviewed charge to the group from EC, Faculty Senate, and Academic Affairs. No perception that the BC needs to be overhauled.
Review of 1988 Report re General Education program, report from National Leadership Council regarding college outcomes, other 4-year colleges in Oregon, AAOT process, and BC/Student Engagement Sub-Committee comments.
General education programs at other OUS universities are confusing and difficult to fully comprehend; they tend to have less “cerebral” or “erudite” categories (e.g., social science, writing, humanities). PSU has required common courses at freshmen and sophomore level, and a few electives at the upper division level. Other universities tend to have a limited number of courses that fulfill general education requirements. Maybe category labels present some obfuscation for students about what they’re supposed to be about. Most programs don’t have required credits, instead they have required number of courses because courses range from 3-5 credits.
George is going to go back and look at how the outcomes and the OSU BC categories go together.
SOU program described with a year-long freshmen seminar experience that includes writing, fitness. Discussed integrating “use of best learning practices” as part of the guidelines and requirements of BC courses. Should there be faculty development for other BC skills (e.g., critical thinking, educational practices)? EOU has outcomes built into the general education requirements.
AAOT proposed outcomes reviewed. These outcomes were developed by representatives of multiple disciplines from multiple universities. They should be seen as the skills and knowledge that students with AA degree bring to OSU (or other four-year university). Articulation agreement is that students can use these to fulfill BC courses except for WIC and synthesis courses. Currently, do not have to take an additional DPD course.
Liz Gray will bring information about the number of courses required to next meeting
Concerns raised about students not learning about OSU/research library/information technology through AAOT program.
Issues raised by BC/Student Engagement Sub-Committee included the role of study abroad and other experiential learning activities in meeting the outcomes of the BC, and thus using these in lieu of specific BC requirements.
Action: 1) review material passed along today and 2) start thinking about ways to assign tasks that will lead to a recommendation at the end of the spring term.
Time to meet next term: every other Friday 1 – 3, beginning April 13
(save all Fridays at this time spring term just in case)
