Planning the Future of GE

• Progress Report and Recommendation for FYE Pilot from Sascha von Meier, Coordinator, First-Year Experience Pilot -- March 23, 2006

• Comparison of Long Range Academic Plan with FYE component of A New Path for General Education at Sonoma State
   
• BACKGROUND FOR DISCUSSIONS OF THE GE PATH from the GE Subcommittee and the GE Task Force of the Academic Planning Committee, February 2004
   
• Academic Affairs Strategic Planning, 2003-2004
   
• G.E. Subcommittee's Outline of Issues for Faculty Retreat, Spring 2002
   
• Academic Planning at SSU: Documents prepared by/for the Academic Planning Committee
   
• WORKING DRAFT 11/1/01: General Education at Sonoma State University (Proposed revision of the Asheville Report by Robert Eyler, Chair, GE Subcommittee)
   
• Asheville Report (8/15/01): General Education at Sonoma State University
   
• G.E PROPOSAL DRAFT
   
• GE Faculty Lab Area A Final Report Fall 2000
  Area A studies provide students with foundational concepts and experiences that are vital to human communication and critical thinking. These studies encourage the development of an intellectual practice through active engagement with and analysis of language."
   
• Leslie Deming (Office of Analytical Studies). Are We Achieving Our Mission?
   
• General Education-Breadth Requirements -- Executive Order 595
  (Nov. 20, 1992--pdf file)
   
• Sonoma State University Mission Statement (11/91)
   
• Sections of Title 5 Pertaining to General Education in the CSU
   

G.E. Bibliography on G.E. ON RESERVE IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (Under APC/EPC) Diversity Issues in the Classroom (SSU call number VHS 4419) is a very useful video that can be used to start a dialogue among our SSU faculty. It includes four vignettes involving college students-professors/advisors and a facilitator's guide. Although it was produced in 1997, the reactions/responses to the vignettes regarding diversity issues in a university setting are applicable today. The Campus Climate Committee, EMT, GE Task Force, and other colleges and departments will greatly benefit to start this much needed kind of dialogue among faculty and administrators. I highly recommend this video. Kindly--EV   Kenneth A. Bruffee. CollaborativeLearning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.   Scott H. Forbes. Holistic Education.Brandon, VT: Foundation fo Educational Renewal, 2003.   Donald R. Gerth, James O. Haehn & Associates. An Invisible Giant: The California State Colleges.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1971.   Debora Hammond. The Science of Synthesis. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 2003.   Jean MacGregor, James L. Cooper, Karl A. Smith & Pamela Robinson, Eds. Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to LearningCommunities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.