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General Education Inquiry Team

Explore the possibilities and components of a cutting-edge General Education program, incorporating authentic assessment, student agency, and community engagement. Discover intentional milestones, interdisciplinary skills, and signature work alongside thematic pathways and cohorts. Get involved in shaping the future of GE through professional development opportunities and collaborative inquiry with other educational teams. Uncover strategies to gauge interest and appetite for GE reform on campus.

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General Education Inquiry Team

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  1. General Education Inquiry Team Marianne Beck Michael Cross Jude Navari Mustafa Popal Paul Rueckhaus Tiffany Schmierer Karen Wong

  2. Goal for Fall 2017 • What is possible for a General Education Program? • What are the components or design features of an effective GE program? • What have other model institutions done? • What is possible at Skyline?

  3. Guiding Design Principles • Promotes intellectual curiosity via the development of critical and creative frameworks to analyze and problem solve enduring questions • Values and synthesizes different ways of knowing • Driven by coherence, intentionality and equitable access • Integrates authentic assessment and transparency • Promotes and expands student agency • Inspires civic mindedness • Anticipates logistical concerns and institutional feasibility

  4. Summary of Learning • Intentional Milestones (organized work that guides learning) • Signature work from specific courses • Capstone project • Certificate of completion • Micro-guided pathways • Clusters of 3-4 shared courses to streamline GE • Cohorted work for 12-18 units • Macro-guided pathways • 24-30 unit sequences guiding GE admission-transfer • Themes, cohorts, special projects

  5. Summary of Learning • Community Engagement • Longitudinal projects working in cohorts with community partners • Eportfolio • Captures and curates GE experience • Showcases and reflects on capstone & signature work • Documents educational journey • Workload & Training • Faculty training series & boot camps

  6. Summary of Learning • Affective Domain • Self efficacy • Integrating interdisciplinary skills into each class • Core competencies • Course sequence around competency or ISLO • Generative Questions • Cohorts examine key question through interdisciplinary lenses • On-boarding (setting the tone for interdisciplinary skills) • Interdisciplinary summer programs • First week boot camps

  7. Itches to Scratch

  8. Understanding GE on Campus Ask the Data • When do students take GE? (At what unit load do students take each GE course?) • How many courses double count (degree + GE)? • What percentage of the catalogue is GE? Ask the Students • Identify target student groups (e.g., transfer, night, full-time, AA-bound) for surveys & focus groups to understand GE experience Ask the Experts…

  9. Professional Development Needs • February 2018: Academic Renewal General Education and Assessment (3 days) • Develop assessment plan & metrics • Focus on civic engagement • June 2018: Summer Institute on General Education & Assessment • Build on proposal to Design Team • Crystalize implementation plan • July 2018: Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work

  10. Lingering Questions • How do we synthesize our work with other inquiry teams (e.g., HIPs, Foundations, etc.)? • What elements of successful GE programs would be most practical and add the most value to the Curriculum? • How can we gauge the appetite for GE reform in the coming semesters (e.g., Campus Climate survey)

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