The Transforming General Education Task Force was created by Faculty Senate in Spring 2019.  The purpose of this task force is to consider the recommendations of the PLC and act upon those recommendations where appropriate, focusing on the goals and value of a liberal arts education, while involving those whose healthy skepticism can lead to the discovery of unintended consequences and unanticipated problems.

Task Force Objectives:

• identify means and assess the effectiveness of general education at SOU, looking at data from various groups of learners and at various groups of courses;
• assess the effectiveness and efficiency of general education courses that also count as majors courses;
• review studies on student perception of general education and collect campus data on the perceptions of SOU students, faculty and staff;
• find ways to align changes in general education with the needs of current and future student demographics in terms of transferability, content, and pedagogy;
• consider which general education approaches will attract and retain students;
• carefully monitor and further explore dual credit transfer alignment and growth potential in general education such as the Interstate Passport and the General Education Maps and Markers effort;
• consult broad constituencies throughout the university community while also following the regular shared governance procedures for curriculum change;
• set a reasonable timeline and be mindful of the resources and incentives needed for innovation, planning, and implementation;
• identify synergies with the work of other professional learning communities such as those dealing with upper division education, creativity, lives of purpose and learner satisfaction;

Meetings:

The Transforming General Education Task Force meets on Fridays from 2:00pm – 4:00pm in LIB352.

Members:

Voting Members:

Ex Officio:

*Administrative Contact for Task Force

Students:

2019

Six General Education Capacities