General Education Revision

New General Education Curriculum

• Challenge Curriculum, Endorsed by the Faculty in April 2018
• New Curriculum Handbook Language, Approved by the Faculty April 12, 2019
• New Curriculum Assessment Timeline, April 12, 2019

Handbook Drafts

• Original Handbook Language, Appendices A-E
• Revised Curriculum Handbook Language, Version 1, Added 12/4/2018
• Revised Curriculum Handbook Language, Version 2, Added 12/17/2018
• Revised Curriculum Handbook Language, Version 3, Added 1/4/2019
• Revised Curriculum Handbook Language, Version 4, Added 2/4/2019
• Revised Curriculum Handbook Language, Version 5, Added 3/12/2019
• Revised Curriculum Handbook Language, Version 6, Added 4/3/2019
• Proposed Changes to January Handbook Language, Version 1, Added 2/12/2019
• Proposed Changes to January Handbook Language, Version 2, Added 3/8/2019

Status Updates

• Curriculum Committee statement on January Term, Added 8/30/2018
• AOC January Term Modeling, Added 10/7/2018
• Draft SLOs and Criteria for New Challenge Curriculum, Added 11/6/2018
• Rationale regarding the two-semesters on-campus language requirement, Added 1/9/2019
• Language requirement modeling, Added 1/11/2019
• Report of January 11, 2019, Curricular Discussion Survey Results, Added 1/24/2019
• Report of January 18, 2019, Curricular Discussion Survey Results, Added 1/26/2019
• January IEX Self-Study and External Evaluator's Report, Added 3/8/2019
• Staffing Modeling, Added 3/22/2019

2018-19 Faculty Curricular Discussions

• August 30, 2018: Faculty Retreat: Implementing the Challenge Curriculum
• September 21, 2018: Timeline Update from the Curriculum Committee
• October 19, 2018: SLO Working Group Discussions
• October 26, 2018: AOC January Term Modeling
• November 16, 2018: Draft SLOs and Criteria for New Challenge Curriculum
• December 14, 2018: Revised Challenge Curriculum Handbook Language
• December 18-19, 2018: Open feedback sessions for all faculty
• January 11, 2019: Curricular Discussion: Arts, Challenge Seminars, First Term Seminar, Global Citizenship, Wellbeing, and
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• January 18, 2019: Curricular Discussion: Human Behavior and Social Institutions, Humanities, Natural Science, Quantitative
• Reasoning, and Theological Studies
• February 15, 2019: Curriculum Revision Update
• March 8, 2109: January Term Handbook Language and IEX Advisory Committee Recommendations
• March 22, 2109: Updated Handbook Language and Staffing Modeling
• April 12, 2019, Faculty Meeting:  Updated Handbook Language, New Curriculum Assessment Timeline