1. All-Faculty General Education Meeting Jan. 10, 2019
Agenda
Gen Ed assessment background
APSU Gen Ed Vision Statement
5 things to assess
Discussion
Next steps this spring
Agenda notes
Gen Ed assessment background
Slides 2-8
APSU Gen Ed Vision Statement
Slide 9
5 things to assess
Slides 10-15
Discussion
Slide 16
Next steps this spring
Slide 17

2. General Education Committee
Karen Meisch, (Chair) CoSTEM
Dixie Webb, CoAL
Mercy Cannon, CoAL
Rob Baron, CoAL
Dzavid Dzanic, CoAL
Kathryn Woods,
Lesley Davidson, CoB
Nicole Knickmeyer, CoBHS
Audrey Bullock, CoSTEM
Bobette Bouton, CoE
Christina Chester-Fangman, Library
Anne Black, ex-officio, Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment

3. TBR Lower Division General Education Core: 2002
TBR reports:
Current situation: opportunities and constraints
SACSCOC , Principles of Accreditation: 2017
THEC Quality Assurance
STUDENT FOCUS: Foundations of Excellence

4. Foundations of Excellence Roles and Purposes Dimension
… a more effective presentation of the roles and purposes of core courses taken will assist in helping the students see the value of these classes, their relevance to major classes, and the need for elective credits that provide the basis for a well- rounded education.

5. VISION
Facilitating the development of foundational knowledge, skills and values that empower students to realize their full potential and inspire them to make positive contributions in a global society.

6. General Education Pillars - VALUE
Communication
Quantitative Reasoning
Inquiry and Analysis
Reflection and Connection
Global Perspectives
What is VALUE? VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) is a campus-based assessment approach developed and lead by AAC&U as part of its Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative.

7. Communication
Communication is the development and expression of ideas in spoken or written language to increase knowledge, foster understanding, or to promote change in attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

8. Quantitative Reasoning
Quantitative Literacy (QL) – also known as Numeracy or Quantitative Reasoning (QR) – is a "habit of mind," competency, and comfort in working with numerical data.
Individuals with strong QL skills possess the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations. They understand and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and they can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats (using words, tables, graphs, mathematical equations, etc., as appropriate).

9. Inquiry and Analysis
Inquiry is a systematic process of exploring issues/ objects/works through the collection and analysis of evidence that result in informed conclusions/ judgments. Analysis is the process of breaking complex topics or issues into parts to gain a better understanding of them.

10. Reflection and Connection
Reflection and Connection is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co- curriculum. This includes making simple connections among ideas and experiences, to synthesizing and transferring learning to new complex situations within and beyond the campus.

11. Global Perspectives
Global learning is a critical analysis of and an engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies (such as natural, physical, social, cultural, economic, and political) and their implications for people’s lives and the earth’s sustainability.
Through global learning, students should
1) become informed, open-minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences,
2) seek to understand how their actions affect both local and global communities, and
3) address the world’s most pressing and enduring issues collaboratively and equitably.

12. Quantitative Reasoning Inquiry and Analysis Reflection and Connection
VISION
PILLARS
Communication
Quantitative Reasoning
Inquiry and Analysis
Reflection and Connection
Global Perspectives
Facilitating the development of foundational knowledge, skills and values that empower students to realize their full potential and inspire them to make positive contributions in a global society.

13. Process FALL SPRING General Education Committee review of feedback
General Education Committee proposals
Faculty input
SPRING
General Education Committee review of feedback
Draft of mission statement for faculty review
Recommendation to Provost of vision, mission and pillars for general education program.
Development of rubrics
Meeting with core area stakeholders to discuss assessment methods