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Update to Faculty Council March 9, 2018

General Education Curriculum Redesign. Update to Faculty Council March 9, 2018. We’ve been listening!. Input from faculty, students, and staff Revised timeline Feasibility & Design c ommittees Getting focus c apacities r ight. Revising the Timeline.

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Update to Faculty Council March 9, 2018

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  1. General Education Curriculum Redesign Update to Faculty Council March 9, 2018

  2. We’ve been listening! • Input from faculty, students, and staff • Revised timeline • Feasibility & Design committees • Getting focus capacities right

  3. Revising the Timeline • 2018-19: Continued coordination with Feasibility and Design committees • 2018-19: Pilots of innovations • e.g., III courses, Student Affairs coordination, e-Portfolio • 2019-20: Potential Phase in of some elements • No Faculty Council legislation this year

  4. Coordinating with F&D Committees • 11 Committees with open participation • Course Availability and Scheduling • Student Learning Outcomes • First Year Scheduling • Ideas, Information and Inquiry (III) Course • Student Affairs Cohort Program • Junior/Senior Communication Course • E-Portfolio • Assessment and Amendment • College Resourcing and Support • Educational and Global • Transfer Students

  5. Big Picture for Focus Capacities • Harvard: 9 courses (27 credits), plus foreign language • Stanford: Approximately 22 credit, plus foreign language • Virginia: 41 credits, plus foreign language • Berkeley: 30-33 credits, plus foreign language • UCLA: Approximately 43 credits • Michigan: 39 credits, plus foreign language (not including writing requirement) • Northwestern: Approx. 21 credit, plus foreign language • Yale: 30 credits, plus foreign language • William and Mary: 33 credits, plus foreign language • F&D committee insights and preliminary mapping

  6. Getting Focus Capacities Right • Coordinating with F&D committees and all stakeholders regarding

  7. Emerging First Year Adjustments • Drop the first-year cohort as part of the curriculum • Alternatives to FYS: small, faculty-taught courses; could be departmental “gateways,” global focuses, etc. • Ideas, Information, and Inquiry (III): broad, collaborative courses proposed by faculty teams

  8. More Representative Oversight Committee • 6 members of the voting faculty: 5 elected, 1 appointed by the Dean • The Chair of the Educational Policy Committee or another member of EPC designated by the Chair • 2 undergraduate students, appointed by Student Government • Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education (ex officio)

  9. Assessment and Amendment • Streamline and improve existing assessment requirements • Overall goal: are we doing what we are trying to do for our students? • Oversight Committee (faculty) leads the effort • Periodic amendments proposed by Oversight Committee to Faculty Governance • Faculty innovations piloted through Oversight Committee

  10. Encouraging Exploration • Reducing “size” of General Education • Providing foundational breadth • Preventing growth in size of majors • Encouraging supplemental education to be outside Division of the major • Leads to more space for elective courses outside Gen Ed and the Major

  11. Communication and Information • Campus email update approx. March 19 • Additional information online soon: • Research brief (background for some elements of the proposal) • Gen Ed requirements at other universities • Perrin, “Why the Liberal Arts? The Value of General Education” (blog post) • EPC, Faculty Council briefings • Email always welcome: curriculum2019@unc.edu

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