Private Page for the Task Force on General Education

Website Comments

Gen Ed Website Comments updated 2/4/16

Information Literacy  updated 12/22/15

Computational Thinking 12/14/15

Email Exchange comment 12/8/15

Student Comment 11/30/15

Fall 2015 Meeting Notes

December 8, 2015 Humanities CCD Meeting
December 8, 2015 Student Life Staff meeting
December 4, 2015 CGS Faculty Meeting
December 4, 2015 MET Faculty Meeting
December 3, 2015 ENG Faculty Meeting
December 2, 2015 SED Faculty Meeting
November 19, 2015 CFA Faculty Meeting
November 18, 2015 Advising Network
November 17, 2015 Global Programs Faculty/Staff Meeting
November 16, 2015 CAS Faculty Meeting
November 12, 2015 MED Campus Town Hall Meeting
November 11, 2015 Writing Program faculty Meeting
November 6, 2015 Provost Student Advisory Board Meeting
November 5, 2015 Town Hall Meeting
November 4, 2015 Faculty Assembly
November 3, 2015 Management Conference
October 30, 2015 Questrom Faculty Meeting
October 30, 2015 Sargent Faculty Meeting
October 27, 2015 LAW, SSW and STH Faculty Reception
October 27, 2015 COM Faculty Meeting
October 26, 2015 Student Government Meeting
October 23, 2015 Faculty Council Meeting
October 22, 2015 General Education Town Hall Meeting
October 20, 2015 SHA Faculty Meeting
October 20, 2015 Undergraduate Council Meeting
October 14, 2015 Enrollment and Student Services
October 9, 2015 Symposium on University-Wide General Education

Task Force Reading Material

Confidential: Please do not shareWP APR Report and Responses

Gen Ed Task Force Resources added 1-29-15

General Education Readings

General Education and Assessment

General Education Program Examples for Task Force

 

In The News…

Schwartz–What ‘Learning How to Think’ Really Means

Re-Defining Learning Outcomes for Global Citizenship Education

Boston College, to Refresh Its Aging Curriculum, Turning to Design Thinkers

Creativity: A Cure for the Common Curriculum

Is ‘Design Thinking’ the New Liberal Arts?

“Obama and Walker: Both Wrong”

“To Help Students Succeed Professionally and Personally, Teach the Art of Being Human”  The Chronicle of Higher Education

MLA Report, February 2015

Victor E. Ferrall, “Valediction for the Liberal Arts

President emeritus of Beloit College updates his conclusion in Liberal Arts at the Brink (Harvard University Press, 2011).  In short: things are worse than he predicted.

“The Day the Purpose of College Changed”

Drawing on recent books and statements by AAC&U president, The Chronicle charts the history of attitudes toward “liberal education” in the US.  Contains a fascinating graph showing the change in students’ understanding of what college is for.

“Where have all the English Majors Gone?”

Inside Higher Ed reports on the drop in English majors at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Although this has been a national trend in the last few years, including at BU, the situation at Maryland has been exacerbated by unintended consequences of new General Education requirements.

Well-Prepared in Their Own Eyes

Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik reports on the AAC&U’s new survey of students an employers.  Not surprising, perhaps:  students think they are more prepared than employers deem them.  The gaps are large in almost all areas our Task Force is considering, including 40 percentage points in “critical thinking.”

In an Evolving Career Landscape, How Should Colleges Prepare Students?

In the first of a series of forums around the country convened by Kettering Foundation, the National Issues Forums Institute, and Augsburg College, the answer was “broadly.”  The article also includes a link to the Chronicle’s April 2014 story on a report issued by Kettering and National Issues Forums Institute: “Divided We Fail: Why It’s Time for a Broader, More Inclusive Conversation on the Future of Higher Education,”

 

 

Spring 2015 Meetings

3:30-5pm

January 15 – 1 Silber Way, 9th floor, Room 910    Agenda  and  Meeting Notes

January 22 – 1 Silber Way, 8th floor     Agenda and  Meeting Notes

January 29 –  Room 910  Agenda

Meeting Notes

PP Presentation 1-29-14

February 5 – Room 938  Agenda

Meeting Notes

Questions for Stanford co-chairs

February 12 – Room 910  Agenda

Meeting notes

Pre-meeting reading material:

BostonsPeopleSyllabusFall2014 FINAL JBS

FA14 EN 128 syllabus Final Final

EN 128 Final Prompt FA 14

EN 128 City Diary Expo Assign 14

EN 128 City Diary Assign 14

Hi190Paperand Transcription Guide

HI 190–Research Tips

HI 190 SyllabusFall2014

PO313_Fall2014 V2

PO517

Boston-Themed WR courses

February 19 – Provost Conference Room  Agenda

Meeting Notes

Task Force Recap Memo 2-18-15

February 26- Room 910  Agenda

Meeting Notes

High Impact Practices AAC&U

2013-First-Destination-Report_FINAL copy

Boston University Living-Learning Communities Review–Final

Running List Knowledge, Skills, Habits of Mind

March 5 – No Meeting

March 12 – No Meeting, Spring Break

March 19 – Provost Conference Room

Examples for 3-19-15

March 26 – Room 910

Gen Ed Task Force Spring 2015 post-break schedule

Updated – Running List Knowledge, Skills, Habits of Mind

April 2 – Provost Conference Room

April 9 – Room 910

April 16 – No Meeting

April 23 – No Meeting

April 30 – No Meeting

May 7 – Room 910

May 13 – All Day Retreat, Hotel Commonwealth

Retreat Agenda

Retreat Interpretation

SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS – MAY 2015

Professional Schools and Liberal Arts

Intercultural-Literacy-and-Global-Competence

General Education for Citizenship

Subcommittee_on_Writing-Information-Creativity

MEETINGS WITH STUDENTS, FACULTY LEADERS, ETC. SPRING/SUMMER 2015

SAR

CFA

MET

STUDENTS 4-23-15

CGS

ENG

SED

SHA

STUDENTS 4-30-15

COM

QUESTROM

Parents Leadership Council

CAS

Fall 2014 Meetings

December 5  Agenda

December 12  Agenda  &  Meeting Notes

CAS First Year Experience Courses

FY 101 Learning Outcomes

FY101 Martin

FY101 McMullen

FY102 First Year Career Development

FY103 Americas_in_Boston

FY103 Leadership

BU’s Current Gen Ed Programs

SHA’s International Experience Requirements 2015

Undergraduate Curricula Quilts (updated 1-21-15)

Current BU Gen Ed 1-15-15

NEASC Standard Four

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