General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities
February 18-20, 2010
Seattle, Washington
Pre-conference Workshops
Separate registration and fee required ($100 members, $125 non-members); seating will be limited, so register early
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Workshop 1: Navigating the Journey to General Education Reform
This workshop will help participants navigate the path of general education reform. Drawing upon the experience of two institutions that have recently completed major revisions in general education and Leskes & Miller’s (2005) “Self-Study Guide for Review and Assessment” and Gaston & Gaff’s (2009) “Revising General Education – And Avoiding the Potholes,” participants will examine the process of reform at their own institutions. In particular, participants will review relevant strategies illustrated with examples and lessons learned from the presenters’ institutions. Participants will then work in small groups to develop plans to take home.
Frederick S. Foster-Clark, General Education Coordinator, Millersville University; and Bonnie Orcutt, Coordinator, Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum, Worcester State College
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Workshop 2: Interdisciplinary Ethical Leadership Challenges
Participants will be introduced to designs and strategies for reframing their work to address ethics and ethical leadership on campus. This workshop will provide innovative theories and programs for integrating ethics into the disciplines and general education. A theoretical leadership approach supportive of academic rigor, social responsibility, cultural awareness, and inclusion will serve as the “tapestry” for addressing ethics within research, curriculum development, and academic programs.
Melvina Turner King, Leadership Studies, Morehouse College
Workshop 3: Preparing Students for an Interdependent and Unequal World
This workshop will feature emerging curricular designs from participating colleges and universities in Shared Futures: General Education for Global Learning, a three-year project started in 2005. Participants will learn how to integrate global learning in general education with specific emphasis on developing learning opportunities that bridge the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. They will examine programs that expand knowledge about the world's peoples and problems and that nurture student agency for equity and justice at home and abroad.
Kevin Hovland, Director for Global Learning and Curricular Change, AAC&U
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Workshop 4: Using Course and Program Assessment to Improve Learning
What are some of the innovative ways in which faculty are assessing general education learning and using assessment results to improve that learning? How do results from general education assessment feed into and enhance learning in the disciplines? In what ways are programs assessing general education outcomes and using those results to compare learning of those outcomes across disciplines and if interested, across institutions? Participants will receive questions that will help them examine their own assessment initiatives prior to the conference and be asked to bring their current assessment plans and practices to the workshop for further review and modification.
Marilee Bresciani, Associate Professor, Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education, San Diego State University
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Workshop 5: Developing and Sustaining Intentional Programs
The AAC&U LEAP articulation of student learning outcomes provides a vision for aligning policies and practices as campuses seek to provide contexts to enhance student learning. This workshop will provide both theoretical grounding and practical guidelines for designing and sustaining programs based on student learning outcomes—beginning with an articulation of those outcomes for entering students and continuing through the undergraduate curriculum and co-curriculum. Participants will also examine assessment of those outcomes and strategies for utilizing assessment results for program improvement. Workshop presenters will provide analyses of their programs, stressing assessment and improvement, and work with participants in developing plans for implementing and sustaining such intentional practices on their campuses.
Karen Erickson, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University; Scott Evenbeck, Dean of University College, and Frank Ross, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Sponsored by the American Conference of Academic Deans
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