Members Present: H. Bruce J. Carter, M. Medvetz, C.
Potter
Members Excused/Absent: N.
Hinman A. McKeown, D. Micus, P.
Silverman, A. Walker-Andrews, R. Wanderscheid
Ex-Officio Present: G. McCaffrey
Chair Carter called
the meeting to order at 10:15 a.m.
Communications:
ASCRC made revisions to the catalog language for composition courses. These were voted on via email.
The proposed timeline for general education revisions is as follows. It is very aggressive and will likely be pushed back. Ideally the review of writing courses according to the revised writing guidelines should coincide with the general education review.
3/3/08 General Education Committee meeting to finalize criteria
3/11/08 Draft criteria to ASCRC for discussion
3/18/08 ASCRC continue discussion
3/20/08 Feedback from ASCRC on criteria
4/3/08 Criteria to ECOS
4/4/08 Criteria sent to senators and department chairs for consideration
4/10/08 Criteria discussed at Faculty Senate meeting
5/1/08 Criteria voted on by Faculty Senate
5/8/08 Deadline memo sent to all faculty
9/26/08
Curriculum review and general education review deadline
- current general
education courses will lose their designation if not submitted
Professor Hinman is on the search committee for the Writing Center Director
Business Items:
Revisions to Writing Guidelines Document
The committee discussed and revised the writing guidelines
document. Professor Medvetz will work on
the paragraph listing the range of possible writing tasks. Electronic tasks such as blogs and discussion
boards should be included.
Professor Potter and Medvetz will clean up the document in terms of parallel
construction by next week’s meeting.
The resource information section was removed from the
draft. The committee should meet with
the Provost to discuss the document and resource needs.
The final document should be submitted to ASCRC after the next meeting.
Further discussion of the Frequently Asked Questions
Document
The committee made some suggestions and these were incorporated into the
document. Some of the questions require
additional revisions. Professor Bruce
will work on revisions to question 2 and Chair Carter will work on question
8. Members were encouraged to discuss
these via email prior to the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:00.