General Education Committee

Meeting Minutes

Date: March 11, 2015

Committee Members Present: Kirsten Underwood, Lynda Robinson, Yingqin Liu, Amanda

Husak, Karla Oty, Matthew Van Sant, Ann Nalley, Sarah Janda, Mandi Smith, Yanjun Zhao,

Marge Kingsley, Jenel Cavazos, Kerri Stephens, and Loree Gaines

1. Meeting was called to order at 4:00 PM in CETES 207.

2. Minutes from the February 11, 2015 meeting were read and approved with minor corrections.

3. Grant Money Spending. Reviewers were found for:

a. Mathematics. The embedded final questions and their rubrics are being sent to a

reviewer to assess problem solving.

b. English. The reviewer will evaluate the English Department’s General Education

Assessments concerning information literacy and ethics.

Reviewers are still needed for eight more General Education assessments. The deadline to

line up a consultant is April 15, 2015 and the reviewer must be finished with their

evaluations by June 1, 2015. Contact Jenn Abel in the Institutional Research, Assessment,

and Accountability (IRAA) office once a reviewer is located so she can fill out the proper

paperwork.

4. Feedback on additional indirect measures for Capstones. The General Education Committee

(GEC) unanimously endorsed the feedback on the additional indirect measures for Capstone.

Survey Monkey will be used to conduct the assessment.

5. HLC item 4.B.4. The IRAA will add a question to the Achievement Summary / Analysis

section of WEAVE. Dr. Mike Husak, chair of the Institutional Assessment Committee (IAC)

will be asked to make sample formats on how the IAC wants the departments to respond to

this new section in WEAVE.

6. CAAP. The GEC decided to set an achievement target for General Education Measures and

Findings for items 4 and 17 since there is no Dean for General Education. The GEC set the

achievement target as: 70% of the seniors will score at the national mean or higher.

7. NSSE Action Plans for Problem Solving, Communication, and Ethics. The GEC established

sub-committees to analyze assessment data and incorporate faculty feedback to formulate

General Education Action Plans that will be presented to the GEC at the April meeting

concerning the General Education Assessments for Problem Solving, Communication, and

Ethics. The subcommittees need to meet before the next GEC meeting. The subcommittees

are:

Communication Ethics Problem Solving

Loree Gaines Matthew Van Sant Mandi Smith

Abdulhamid Sukar Jenel Cavazos Edris Montalvo

Yingqin Liu Kerri Stephens Yanjun Zhao

8. There was no new business.

9. The next GEC meeting will be Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 4:00 PM in CETES room 207.

10. Meeting was adjourned at 4:46 PM.

Submitted by Loree Gaines