1. October 27, 2017 Adhoc Committee
NOTE: The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Shared Competencies has excerpted slides from this presentation that document stakeholder involvement in the shared competencies initiative. This is a portion of the 12/4/18 Ad Hoc Committee report to the University Senate.
Shared Competencies: Pilot of Syracuse 4+4 Institutional Learning Outcomes
October 27, 2017
Adhoc Committee

2. Senate Involvement
Spring 2016 Senate Presentation by Terra Peckskamp on Syracuse 4+4
Spring 2017 Senate Presentation by Rochelle Ford on Middle States Findings included Syracuse 4+4
Fall 2017 Senate Presentation by Rochelle Ford on Middle States Findings included Syracuse 4+4
Committee Engagement
Library Fall 2015
Research Fall 2015
Instruction Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017
Chairs of all Committees Spring 2017
Agenda in-coming and out-going chairs Summer 2017
Curriculum Fall 2017
Academic Affairs Fall 2017

3. 4+4 Informal poll of students conducted by first year students
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Hello my name is Marcus Lane  I’m a sophomore at Syracuse University. Uh, two experiences that enhanced my communication skills are: one- um, having to speak at a panel, um, during Max 123, which is a course, uh, called “Critical Issues in the United States,” that helped me, uh, learn how to speak in front of mass audiences to communicate messages about my viewpoints. The second, um, experience was teaching basic entrepreneurial math, um, during the summer in Syracuse. I stayed in the community and I had to, uh, teach high school students, um the aforementioned subjects.
Creative Reasoning
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So, through Syracuse University I think I’ve achieved the creative reasoning skills. For one, I’ve started the guitar club and I think I’ve met a lot of great guitarists and singers who, where we exchanged a lot of ideas and a lot of opportunity to play music. Also, in, even in Whitman School of Management I am taking the entrepreneurship class so we learn how to be innovative, we bounce off ideas with each other, and I’ve met, like, a lot of great people and I think Syracuse University is like the perfect school to learn more about how to be more creative.
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4. 4+4 Listening Tour Meetings Nov.-May
Middle States Team 3&4
Whitman Faculty
Arts & Sciences Faculty
Maxwell & CAS Assessment Committee
VPA Chairs and Directors
iSchool
Student Association & Graduate Student Organization
Enrollment & Student Experience Directors
Residence Hall Advisors
Provost’s Deans Council
Newhouse Faculty
Falk College Faculty
Engineering & Computer Science Faculty
School of Education Faculty
Senate Agenda Committee Chairs
Generally well accepted; revisions and refinement necessary
Generated implementation ideas
Ethics and Integrity definition needs to be reconsidered, rewritten, and perhaps considered as a ninth competency
Ethical reasoning and ethics, avoid verbatim of AAC&U
Can people be ethical and lack integrity or be unethical and have integrity
Faculty and staff need training
Involves more than academic integrity and training of students
Too sanitized
Morality
Ethics course is needed
Civic and Global
Require a foreign language competency – not math and technology (Report from the Educational Excellence Working Group)
Get students off campus
Students will have varying level because of time and emphasis
Creative and Critical are too similar
Knowledge through design or design thinking
Multiplicity of boundaries
Communicative isn’t explicit as literary skills
Need to be more direct with reading, writing and communication
Emotional Intelligence
Focus on Health Minds
Resiliency (coping/resiliency)
Literacy:
Scientific
Governmental
Moral and ethical