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Core Curriculum and General Education

The Core Curriculum and General Education Committee shall consist of the Provost or designee as chair, and faculty membership, to be distributed as follows:

There shall be seven representatives from the core areas: 1) composition or literature 2) fine arts 3) history 4) mathematics 5) natural sciences 6) philosophy 7) social sciences; and one from each of the remaining colleges or schools, excluding the Graduate School; and one from the University Libraries. The Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment shall serve as a non-voting, ex officio member of the committee.

The committee shall have the responsibilities of recommending goals for general education and the Core Curriculum and monitoring the University's effectiveness in fostering student achievement of these goals. Toward this end, the committee shall oversee the assessment of student learning in the Core, including the evaluation of courses, and may recommend to the University Senate changes in the Core Curriculum and general education.  

Members

• Chair, Constance Relihan, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies, continuing
• Drew Clark, Director, Institutional Research and Assessment – Continuing
• Carolyn Robinson, Horticulture – 2013
• Tom Gallagher, Forestry and Wildlife Science – 2013
• Andrew McLelland, Accounting –2013
• William Schaffer, Liberal Arts – Music – 2014
• James Shelley, Liberal Arts –Philisophy – 2014
• Michael Kozuh, Liberal Arts – History – 2014
• Carole Johnson, Liberal Arts –Social Science – 2014
• Theodore (Ted) Kilgore, Sciences and Matematics – 2014
• Scott Ketring, Human Sciences – 2014
• Daniel Henry, EFLT – 2015
• Eleanor (Missy) Josephson, Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology – 2015
• Roy Knight, Mechanical Engineering – 2015
• Mary Mendonca, Biological Sciences – 2015
• Iris Mullins, Nursing –2015
• Todd Shipman, Library – 2015
• Christian Dagg, Archetecture – 2015
• Peter Panizzi, Pharmacy – 2015
• Craig Bertolet, English – 2015

Last Updated: Nov. 13, 2012