Genereal Education Council - Minutes of October 18, 2005

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Present: Scott Campbell, David Frankel, Sharon Geiger, Bill Hayden, John Hodgson (for Sue Bartlett), William Murray, Gregory Paveza, Trevor Purcell, Robert Potter (Chair), Terry Sincich, Nancy White

Absent: Sandra Cadena, Ronald Dulaney, Irene Frank, Gladis Kersaint, Joan Morris, Ram Pendyala, Suzanne Perry-Casler, Andrew Smith

Guests: Theresa Flateby, Janet Moore, Joan Morris, Diane Williams

The meeting was called to order at 3:37 pm.

  1. The minutes of October 4, 2005 were approved as submitted.

  2. Diane Williams gave the web site (www.c21th.usf.edu) one general/mock_up_links.htm structured course approval process.

  3. Clear distinctive between on-site and distance learning.

  4. Discussion of the web screens.

  5. Syllabus adapted to meet the needs of the course instruction.

  6. Send a note to the Provost regarding the syllabus statement.

  7. Send a note to subcommittee on the syllabus links for college site to Ram Pendyala. Discussion on syllabus followed.

  8. Bill Murray introduced Departmental Incentives', and how to get responses from as many units as possible.

  9. There are 400 courses in 60 departments, and an e-mail should be sent to every Chair. Chairs should respond as to which courses were eligible for the first year.

  10. Course proposals should be really clear, and reinforce that this is for course proposal submissions.

  11. Monies are for courses that "pass" certification.

  12. Bob Potter stated that we need incentives - good faith distribution at the start rather than once we have approved the course.

  13. Departments that are highly dependent on credit hours generation will want to offer lots of courses.

  14. We must avoid giving the impression that any course that is submitted be routinely or summarily approved, and the Chair should select one or two courses for submission.

  15. Incentive Program is to start the process. This is to test the waters.

  16. F of K&L core groups/teams of faculty need to work on these courses.

  17. Core curriculum foundations of things to be aware of:
    1. Courses may be certified in only one area and how do we handle interdisciplinary courses.
    2. There are five dimensions needed, but do we really want 3 of 5?

    The next meeting will be Tuesday, November 1, 2005. The meeting was adjourned at 5:08 pm.

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