General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate

November 6, 2009

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The General Education Committee met on October 16, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: June Aono, Fenny Cox, Michael Hallstone, Sa'ili Lilomaiva-Doktor, Alan Rosenfeld, Jim Turner

Also in attendance: Kelly Ching

Approved Courses:
      Math 241 - Foundations, Symbolic Reasoning
      Math 242 - Foundations, Symbolic Reasoning

Additional Issues:
We currently do not require the General Education Oral or Ethics focus for graduation from UHWO. We need at least 3 O and E courses offered every semester to insure that all students have the ability to complete these requirements before graduation. We are asking all faculty who include oral or ethics components in their courses to consider applying for the O or E focus designation.

Next meeting: November 20, 2009

Deadline for proposals: November 13. Please email proposals to Fenny Cox and place the original signed proposal in her mailbox. Proposal forms can be found on the FS website.

The new chair of the GE committee is Evelyn Fenny Cox

General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate

October 2, 2009

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The General Education Committee met on September 25, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Fenny Cox, Sa'ili Lilomaiava-Doktor, Alan Rosenfeld, Linda Randall (ex-officio)

Also in attendance: Kelly Ching, Pat Masters, Lynn Hodgson

Updates: Fenny Cox was elected as the new chair for the General Education Committee. She is replacing Julia Myers. The committee passed a resolution thanking Julia for her service as chair.

Approved Courses:
      BOT 105 was approved for DS Diversification designation.
      BOT 105 was approved for H Focus (as reported by the HAP committee).
      CHEM 161 was approved for DP Diversification designation.
      CHEM 161L was approved for DY Diversification designation.

Next meeting: October 16th

Deadline for proposals: October 9th. Please send proposals to Fenny Cox, and place the original signed proposal in her mailbox. Proposal forms can be found on the FS website.

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
May 1, 2009

The General Education Committee met on Apri 17, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Michael Hallstone, Alan Rosenfeld, Jim Turner, Linda Randall

Others in attendance: Terri Ota & Susan Nishida

Updates:

• The Committee is continuing work on identifying gaps in GE course offerings at UHWO. Terri Ota presented results of a survey of existing focus courses, and the number of transfer and returning students needing focus courses. The committee also discussed the possibility of unfreezing the hold on focus requirements (H, O, and E) at UHWO. The consensus was that there are currently not enough focus courses to meet the needs of our students, should the freeze be lifted. The committee recommends maintaining the freeze on all focus areas until Fall of 2010.
• The Multicampus Foundations Board met on Monday, April 27th. Fenny Cox represented UHWO. The Foundations Board voted to accept UHWO's proposal to join the Board.

Approved Courses:

EDEE 492 was approved for the E Focus Next meeting: This was the final meeting for AY 2008-2009. The committee will reconvene in September.

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
April 3, 2009

The General Education Committee met on March 20, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Ross Cordy, Fenny Cox, Linda Randall

Also in attendance: Lori Ideta, Kelly Ching

Updates: The General Education proposal forms have all been updated as form-fillable Word documents. They will be posted on the Faculty Senate website shortly, along with the procedures for submitting proposals. If you need a copy of any of these proposal forms prior to the 15th of April, please contact Julia Myers at jcmyers@hawaii.edu.

Approved Courses:
      ENG 253 was approved for the O Focus.

Next meeting: April 17th - This is the final scheduled meeting for AY 2008-2009

Deadline for proposals: April 10th (This is the final deadline for this academic year. All proposals turned in after that date will be held until the fall semester.)

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
March 6, 2009

The General Education Committee met on February 20, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Ross Cordy, Fenny Cox, Michael Hallstone, Sa'ili Lilomaiava-Doktor, Alan Rosenfeld, Linda Randall, Jayson Chun

Updates: The Committee is continuing work on identifying gaps in GE course offerings at UHWO. The committee also discussed the possibility of unfreezing the hold on focus requirements (H, O, and E) at UHWO. Currently, the freeze on O & E is scheduled to remain until Fall of 2010. There is a possibility that the freeze will be removed sooner from H focus requirements.

Approved Courses:
     PHIL 220 was approved for the E Focus and O Focus

Next meeting: March 20th

Deadline for proposals: March 13th (This is the absolute final deadline if you want something in the catalog for Fall 09)

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
February 6, 2009

The General Education Committee met on January 23, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Members in attendance were: Ross Cordy, Alan Rosenfeld , Michael Hallstone, Fenny Cox, Jim Turner, Margot, Saili Lilomaiava-Doktor, Julia Myers, June Aono, Linda Randall

1. The Committee is reviewing the distribution of General Education courses at UHWO, and considering actions/recommendations to ensure that there is an adequate distribution of foundations, diversification and focus courses. An example of an identified gap is that there are no Oral Communication (O) courses at the lower division at UHWO.

2. The HAP subcommittee voted on and approved HPST 202 (Pacific Worlds: Introduction to Pacific Island Studies) as a H focus class.

3. On January 23rd, the UH System HAP Board delegates met and approved UHWO's program in line with the UH System H Focus Articulation Agreement. Therefore, UHWO is officially approved and a member of the UH System HAP Board. What this means is that effective this semester, all our HAP courses automatically transfer to other campuses.

Next meeting: February 20th
Deadline for proposals: February 13th

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
December 5, 2008

The General Education Committee met on November 21, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Ross Cordy, Fenny Cox, June Aono, Sa'ili Lilomaiava-Doktor, Alan Rosenfeld, Linda Randall

Updates: The General Education Committee discussed the following issues:

• Recommendations for what General Education forms and information need to be included on the webpage for the UHWO Faculty Handbook. The committee made the decision to include the General Education Requirements (one pager with a link to hallmarks) and the proposal forms.
• Progress on system-wide foundations articulation agreement. The proposal for this was initiated last year, and was sent back to us for some revisions. Julia will meet with Jayson Chun (the previous committee chair) to determine what still needs to be done.
• Future plans for General Education Committee. A few things the committee will pursue are:
  1. Creating a central repository for approved forms.
  2. Updating proposal forms (to include examples of ideal responses), and digitizing these forms.
  3. Providing workshops for those who would like help understanding General Education Requirements at UHWO, and with submitting proposal forms.
  4. Analyzing the number of lower level and upper level focus courses. We want to insure that there are no situations where students' progression is delayed due to the lack of focus courses. The first step is getting an inventory of all of these courses from Terri Ota.
  5. Communicating with the Writing Intensive committee about representation on the General Education Committee, or at least about providing the committee with reports about what is voted on and approved, since Writing Intensive falls under General Education. A similar process is used for Hawaiian Asian Pacific, where the HAP committee handles HAP issues/proposals separately, but reports their decisions to the General Education Committee.

Approved Courses:

   PUBA 477 for E focus

Next meeting: January 23rd

Deadline for proposals: January 16th

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
November 7, 2008

The General Education Committee met on October 17, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Ross Cordy, Fenny Cox, June Aono, Sa'ili Lilomaiava-Doktor, Alan Rosenfeld

Updates: Julia Myers will serve as the chair of the general education committee this year.

• Meetings will be held on the 3rd Friday of every month.
• Proposals for course designation are due on the 2nd Friday of every month. The person submitting the proposal should make 10 copies and place them in Julia's box. She will be working on creating a digital application so that we can review them electronically in the future!

Approved Courses:

MATH 135 for FS (Symbolic Reasoning)
MATH 140 for FS (Symbolic Reasoning)

Next meeting: November 21st

Deadline for proposals: November 14th

Proposal Guidelines: Please submit 10 hardcopies of the proposal. They can be placed in Julia's box. Additionally, submit a digital copy to Julia at jcmyers@hawaii.edu

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General Education Committee Report to Faculty Senate
October 3, 2008

The General Education Committee met on September 12, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

Members in attendance: Julia Myers, Ross Cordy, Fenny Cox, June Aono, Sa'ili Lilomaiava-Doktor, Alan Rosenfeld

Updates: Julia Myers will serve as the chair of the general education committee this year.

• Meetings will be held on the 3rd Friday of every month.
• Proposals for course designation are due on the 2nd Friday of every month. The person submitting the proposal should make 10 copies and place them in Julia's box. She will be working on creating a digital application so that we can review them electronically in the future!

Next meeting: October 17th

Deadline for proposals: October 10th (This is the absolute final deadline if you want something in the catalog for Spring 09)