1. University Core of Common Studies Revision Process
Core Revision Facilitation Group
Lowell Barrington
Sarah Bonewits Feldner
Lars Olson
John Su

2. What might success look like?
Alumni able to articulate how the Core helped to prepare them for their post-Marquette opportunities
Faculty, staff, and administrators able to articulate to prospective students and their parents how the Core delivers on our promise to provide a transformative education, meriting their significant financial investment

3. Marquette's revision process
From the Provost and President (May 2015):
Charge
Roles and responsibilities
Timeline

4. Charge for Core revision process
Jesuit/Mission-centric
Transformational
Innovative
Integrative
Measurable/Assessable
Transparent

5. Roles and responsibilities: what's distinctive to Marquette's process?
Openness
Transparency
Proposals for frameworks will be solicited from campus, not restricted to a single committee
All proposals will be reviewed by three representative bodies:
CCRC
UBUS
UAS

6. Core revision process website
Key documents from Provost and President
Announcements of upcoming meetings, events, or other opportunities to provide input in process
Research data from campus and from peer and aspirational institutions
Opportunity to provide anonymous feedback

7. Timeline: goals for AY 2015-16
To discuss and design frameworks for the next Core (Campus community)
To review and potentially endorse one or more framework proposals (CCRC, UBUS, UAS)
To announce in May 2016 which framework will structure the next Core (Provost and President)

8. What's a framework? Distributional Sequential Theme-based or clustered
Competency-based
Tiered (e.g., first-year seminar/capstone or foundation/exploration)

9. To reach our May 2016 goal, what needs to happen this Fall?
Campuswide survey #1: what's essential for all undergraduates to be able to do or know or experience because of completing the Core? (9/7-15)
Campuswide conversations sponsored by colleges: using the data from survey #1 and research data, what learning outcomes should be associated with the Core? (9/21-10/23)
Campuswide survey #2: Likert scale to evaluate the various learning outcomes proposed during campuswide conversations (10/26-30)
The data collected from these surveys and conversations + research on best practices at peer and aspirational institutions (see Core revision website resources) will guide framework proposals

10. Next steps for faculty across colleges?
Meetings with clusters of departments (9/21-10/23)
Establishing cross-disciplinary working groups to talk about increasing integration and/or designing proposals for Core frameworks

11. What's exciting about Core revision?
Increased integration through theme-based or paired courses
Experiential learning components designed to connect academic work with co-curricular activities
Increased depth and rigor through foundation/explorations or other sequential designs

12. How can we represent what the Core does?
University of Santa Clara
Rutgers University

13. What might success look like?
Alumni are able to articulate how the Core helped to prepare them for their post- Marquette opportunities
Faculty, staff, and administrators able to articulate to prospective students and their parents how the Core delivers on our promise to provide a transformative education, meriting their significant financial investment