1. General Education Inquiry Team
Marianne Beck
Michael Cross
Jude Navari
Mustafa Popal
Paul Rueckhaus
Tiffany Schmierer
Karen Wong
Michael

2. Goal for Fall 2017 What is possible for a General Education Program?
What are the components or design features of an effective GE program?
What have other model institutions done?
What is possible at Skyline?
Michael

3. Guiding Design Principles
Promotes intellectual curiosity via the development of critical and creative frameworks to analyze and problem solve enduring questions
Values and synthesizes different ways of knowing
Driven by coherence, intentionality and equitable access
Integrates authentic assessment and transparency
Promotes and expands student agency
Inspires civic mindedness
Anticipates logistical concerns and institutional feasibility
Tiffany

4. Summary of Learning
Intentional Milestones (organized work that guides learning)
Signature work from specific courses
Capstone project
Certificate of completion
Micro-guided pathways
Clusters of 3-4 shared courses to streamline GE
Cohorted work for units
Macro-guided pathways
24-30 unit sequences guiding GE admission-transfer
Themes, cohorts, special projects
Paul

5. Summary of Learning Community Engagement
Longitudinal projects working in cohorts with community partners
Eportfolio
Captures and curates GE experience
Showcases and reflects on capstone & signature work
Documents educational journey
Workload & Training
Faculty training series & boot camps
Paul

6. Summary of Learning Affective Domain Self efficacy
Integrating interdisciplinary skills into each class
Core competencies
Course sequence around competency or ISLO
Generative Questions
Cohorts examine key question through interdisciplinary lenses
On-boarding (setting the tone for interdisciplinary skills)
Interdisciplinary summer programs
First week boot camps
Paul

7. Itches to Scratch
Karen

8. Understanding GE on Campus
Ask the Data
When do students take GE? (At what unit load do students take each GE course?)
How many courses double count (degree + GE)?
What percentage of the catalogue is GE?
Ask the Students
Identify target student groups (e.g., transfer, night, full-time, AA- bound) for surveys & focus groups to understand GE experience
Ask the Experts…
Karen (with help from Paul)

9. Professional Development Needs
February 2018: Academic Renewal General Education and Assessment (3 days)
Develop assessment plan & metrics
Focus on civic engagement
June 2018: Summer Institute on General Education & Assessment
Build on proposal to Design Team
Crystalize implementation plan
July 2018: Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work
Michael

10. Lingering Questions
How do we synthesize our work with other inquiry teams (e.g., HIPs, Foundations, etc.)?
What elements of successful GE programs would be most practical and add the most value to the Curriculum?
How can we gauge the appetite for GE reform in the coming semesters (e.g., Campus Climate survey)
Michael