ASCRC Minutes 10/3/06

 

Members Present: B. Bach R. Browning, I. Crummy, J. Eglin, D. Duncan, V. Hedquist, C. Henderson, J. Graham, J. Luckowski, A. Szalda-Petree, A. Tabibnejad, H. Thompson, A. Walker-Andrews

Members Absent/Excused: R. Nalty, P. Silverman

 

Ex-Officio Present: D. Micus, M. Hoell


Guest:  Associate Dean Tompkins

 

Chair Szalda-Petree called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.

 

The minutes from 9/26/06 were approved.

 

Communication
 

·        Jon Graham was welcomed to the committee.

·        Curriculum proposals were disseminated to the various school subcommittee chairs.  Proposals from College of Arts and Science departments are still trickling into the Senate Office.  Camie will process these as soon as possible at get them to the subcommittee chairs.

·        Data on MUS transfer students was provided to the committee for review.  The number of students eligible to utilize the MUS core is relatively low, thus the transferability issue should not drive UM’s general education program.

Semester

Fresh-man

Sopho-more

Junior

Senior

Montana Transfers

Total U enroll-ment

Total U Transfers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 06

137

120

76

33

366

11368

831

 

 

37.43%

32.79%

20.77%

9.02%

3.22%

 

7.31%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

5

2

4

16

2346

45

 

Sum 06

31.25%

31.25%

12.50%

25.00%

0.68%

 

1.92%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 06

51

26

18

10

105

10740

306

 

 

48.57%

24.76%

17.14%

9.52%

0.98%

 

2.85%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 05

115

105

73

20

313

11018

844

 

 

36.74%

33.55%

23.32%

6.39%

2.84%

 

7.66%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005-

171

136

93

34

434

24104

962

 

2006

39.40%

31.34%

21.43%

7.83%

1.80%

 

3.99%

 



Unfinished Business

 

General Education Model

The committee continued discussion on retooling of the current program.  The program should be streamlined with new concise criteria/outcomes.   In terms of implementation, the committee could take an incremental approach and require perspective courses to re-apply according to the review schedule.

There was concern that the plan specified a second lower-division writing course in the major.  Currently many programs meet this requirement with an upper-division writing course that is also a major requirement. Class size is an issue with lower-division writing courses in the major. The hope was that the foreign language competency would be met at the high school level and students would test out. Over the past two years there were only 302 students that tested out of the foreign language requirement.  These credits will be problematic for many programs that are credit heavy due to accreditation.  

The committee voted on whether to continue to couple the foreign language competency with symbolic systems (4 in favor, 8 against).

 

A vote was taken on whether to forward the model below (9 in favor, 3 against) to departments and ECOS for consideration.

                       

Competencies

 English Writing Skills                                                                             6
      ENEX 101

      One approved writing course which may be a perspective course

     Successfully pass the WPA                                                                           

Math Literacy                                                                                       3           

Foreign Language                                                                                 5           

                                                                                                                         

Perspectives

1. Expressive Arts                                                                                3           

2. Literary & Artistic Studies                                                                3           

3. Historical & Cultural Studies                                                             3           

4. Social Sciences                                                                                3           

5. Ethics and Human Values                                                                 3           

6. Natural Science (Include one lab)                                                     6           

                                                                                                            35         

Diversity requirement to be defined.                                                                   

All courses must be at the 100 or 200 level

All courses must be foundational

All courses must be at least 3 credits

                                                                                                                                   

The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.