Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting members present: Pat Ball (phone), Filix Maisch, Bob Paasch, Weihong Qiu, Dana Sanchez, Inara Scott
Voting members absent: Nancy Barbour, Isabelle Brock, Natalie Dollar, Bill Smyth,  Rorie Spill Solberg
Ex-Officio members present: Heath Henry – Academic Affairs, Shannon Riggs – Ecampus

• WRII
  • No Discussion Needed
    • PHL121
      • Alignment between Baccalaureate Core assessments and assignments were not present on all syllabi. Suggest sending it back to originator for edits.
      • Approve, pending changes.
• Category II Proposals
  • No Discussion Needed
    • PHL475/575   
      • Learning resources not listed
      • No evidence of alignment between learning outcomes and assignments
      • Other small issues
      • Not approved
      • Will be sent back to originator for revisions
  • Discussion Needed
    • HDFS401
      • Wrong Student conduct link
      • Wrong DAS statement
      • Very poor explanation of what a WIC is, what the requirements for it are, and it is missing the word count for the writing assignments
      • Not approved
      • Will be sent back to originator for revisions

• Additional reviews that are completed prior to the meeting

• Briefing on OSU’s Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) Accreditation process.
  • NWCCU key components of the accreditation self-study
• Accreditation is coming up. OSU is currently working on its self-study. Part of the accreditation process is proving that OSU provides 45 credits of Baccalaureate Core courses that span the curriculum and provide students with a variety of options.
• There are some floating links around with Bacc Core information and it may take some time to align them all in the self-study and insure they are up to date, accurate and easy to find.
• It’s uncertain how HB2998 will affect the accreditation process.

Minutes taken by Caitlin Calascibetta