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Date

2007-05-29

Time

Location

Agenda

1-2:30, Brown 105

Agenda:
Course Re-design - Guests Randy Smith, Ed Adelson, Alexis Collier (1-1:15)

Notes

Unapproved Meeting Minutes

Present:  Childs, Mercerhill, Highly, Heiden, Bitters, Tebben, Bunker, Baker, Lowry

 

1. Course Re-design
1. Guests Randy Smith, Alexis Collier, Ed Adelson
2. Center for Academic Transformation (National Org funded by Pew)

                                                               i.      Has funds for redesigning lower-level courses

                                                             ii.      Includes defining course objectives, thinking about different modes of delivering (including technology)

                                                            iii.      Goal is to save instructional costs to free money for other departmental initiatives

3. Dennis Pearl in Statistics redesigned Statistics 135

                                                               i.      Students take a learning styles survey and choose the method of learning that best fits them

                                                             ii.      Institution had to have a team from the University in order to be accepted

                                                            iii.      As a result of the changes, retention has dramatically improved and achievement has increased; repeating students have dropped by ½

4. Redesign Alliance

                                                               i.      OSU =  founding member

                                                             ii.      Randy on the national board

                                                            iii.      Dennis Pearl is a redesign scholar (talks to people at other institutions about how to go through process)

                                                           iv.      Seed funds available through OAA to redesign approximately 3 courses

                                                             v.      Priority to be given to STEM fields

                                                           vi.      Proposals should go through College office

2. Portuguese 551 and 552- approved with contingency
1. Need grading scale
3. Modern Greek 101-104- approved
1. Course description changes
4. Portuguese 335
1. Refer English’s revised assessment to them
2. GEC category
3. Approved based on Dept acceptance that this is cultures and ideas only
4. Syllabus and rationale to be changed before sending to Sub B
5. Needs grading scale
5. Uzbek- approved contingent on revision to assessment plan
1. Refer them to Italian assessment plan
6. Chinese, Japanese, Korean Major program revisions - approved contingent on changes to all syllabi
1. ch600 no grading scale, academic misconduct, or disability statement
2. ch505 no info on grading or assignments; improper academic misconduct statement
3. EALL357 no grading scale or academic misconduct statement
4. EALL H399 needs proper academic misconduct statement
5. jap601 vague on grading: midterm and final constitute 70% of final grade; obsolete ref to East Asia Studies ref collection on 3rd floor of main library; no academic misconduct statement
6. jap602 nothing on grading or assessment
7. jap 603 no academic misconduct statement or disability statement
8. jap680 no academic misconduct statement; improper disability statement
9. jap681 no details re grading breakdown; EALL 683 no grading scale; no disability statement; no academic misconduct statement
10. EALL 346 no grading scale; no academic misconduct statement; no disability statement
11. EALL 341 proper disability and academic misconduct statement needed
12. EALL 357 no grading scale or academic misconduct statement
13. kor600 no grading scale, academic misconduct statement, or disability statement
14. kor 656 no grading scale; improper disability statement
7. CC members
1. Laura Bennet- student Rep from English still waiting to hear from Grad Students
2. Frank Puerano- Comp Studies Newark
3. Leslie Alexander and Randy Roth- History
4. Todd Bitters continuing

The chair thanks everyone for all their work; The members thank the chair for his leadership