Flexibility in Schedule
The following draft schedule is subject to change as needed. This flexibility includes the time estimated for each topic: if the discussion peters out, they can be adjusted to end early or move onto the next topic. Breaks from zoom meetings can be taken when the group wants.
- Schedule and Topics
Contact
June 1-June 13
Read draft proposal and selection of materials, which can be found here.
Review committee and senate reports
Week 1
Monday, June 13
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Intro to work and tasks, guardrails, design process, overview of where to find everything in Revisions Team shared drive:
- Overview of current Gen Ed program
- Discuss variability in programs and campuses: students, credit room, teaching capacities, accreditation standards, etc…
Tuesday, June 14
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Read the proposal, come with notes, and talk to design team – overview of pitfalls of the process and points of contention, UHM’s program review
Wednesday, June 15
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Problems with Gen Ed: transfer and articulation, assessment results
- Hone in on transfer problems in Gen Ed, policies
- Discussion of campus autonomy – curricular structure continuum
- Discussion with Transfer and Assessment experts
Thursday, June 16
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Intro to AAC&U VALUE rubrics, national definitions and standards for core competencies, and those in current Gen Ed
- Liberal education/disciplinary breadth
- Hawaiian/Second Language
Friday, June 17
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Curricular models overview, focus of work to revise/rewrite proposal
- Link to sample proposals, introduce outline of revised proposal
Week 2
Monday, June 20
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Feedback overview and organization: confusion, criticisms, misunderstandings, recommendations, implementation
- Divide into groups to read through and extract common elements from feedback in each area below
Tuesday, June 21
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Work in the morning in small groups on summaries of feedback for foundations, reinforcement, capstone, guiding principles/other
- Come together in afternoon to discuss summaries
- Will also need to review campus senates’ feedback, committees’ feedback
Wednesday, June 22
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Continue discussions of summaries, feedback
Thursday, June 23
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Skeletal Gen Ed, which competencies to include and how (separate designations or as SLOs), how to layer thematic pathways, multidisciplinary clusters, interdisciplinarity, other curricular structures on top – outline samples to include in proposal
Friday, June 24
9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00
Work ahead planning
- Proposal outline pre-populated with national definitions, rubrics, citations
- Schedule of weekly meetings, small group assignments, and assigned tasks
Week 3
Friday, July 1
Weekly Meeting
Week 4
Friday, July 8
Weekly Meeting
Week 5
Friday, July 15
Weekly Meeting
Week 6
Friday, July 22
Weekly Meeting
Week 7
Monday, July 25
9:00-12pm, 1-4pm
Work on finishing sections of revised proposal as a group, to include:
- Summaries of feedback
- Skeletal shared GE, including mapping to current GE on different campuses, references to national definitions and literature, and assessment results
- Options/samples for fleshing it out with different curricular models, pathways, etc.
Tuesday-Friday; July 26-29
9:00-12pm, 1-4pm
Implementation recommendations to include:
- Encourage scaffolding through pairing of Foundations and Reinforcement level expertise (e.g. FW and WI together) on committees
- Adopt UHM external review recommendations for approval periods (5 years for new, 10 for renewal), course-based only
- Reduce paperwork through simplified hallmarks and SLOs, # committees
- Curricular support once approved include mini-development grants, TEs, etc.
- Systemwide GEC like ACCFSC for info sharing
- Address enrollment concerns, territoriality, workload, teaching equivalencies, etc.
- Recommended next steps at campus level
- Plan for revisions to or development of hallmarks and SLOs
Week 8
Monday, August 1
9:00-10 am, 3-5pm
Work on finishing revised proposal as a group:
- Assign sections to edit and finish
- From 3-5, answer marginal questions, resolve comments and suggested changes
