9:00 –  9:30

Coffee and Pastries,  Registration

9:30 – 9:45

Welcome: Provost Mark Nook

9:45 – 10:45

Keynote: Terrel Rhodes, Vice President of the Office of Quality, Curriculum and Assessment, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Why Do I Have To Change When I Like It The Way It Is?

Terry provides an international and national context for the move toward essential learning outcomes in general education.

10:45 – 11:00

Q & A

11:00 – 11:15

Break

11:15 –11:45 

General Education Policy Review Committee (GEPRC) Report: Don Guay  Co-chair GEPRC Committee

Don provides a local context for the move toward essential learning outcomes in general education

11:45 - 12:30

Discussion tables

Participants grouped by fields: Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts. Total of 15 tables with 3 - 4 tables per area discuss questions pertaining to how  the new Gen Ed program will affect:

• departments

• programs

• faculty members and teaching staff?

12:30 – 1:15

Lunch

  1:15 – 2:00

Discussion tables (1^st round )  3 groups of 5 tables each (15 tables) discuss one of the following three  topics: 

• Program and course assessment

• Curriculum modification/approval process

• Writing in the major

  2:00 – 2:45

Discussion tables (2nd round )  3 groups of 5 tables each (15 tables) discuss one of the following three  topics: 

• Program and course assessment

• Curriculum modification/approval process

• Writing in the major

  2:45 – 3:00

  3:00 - 3:45

Questions & Answers
Next Steps-Provost Mark Nook