Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting Members Present: Linda Bruslind, Kevin Gable (Chair), Lori Kayes, Bob Paasch, Kirsi Peltomaki, Malgo Peszynska, Rebecca Olson, Ken Winograd
Ex-Officio Non-voting Member Present: Vicki Tolar Burton, Stefani Dawn

Introductions
Kevin Gable is currently serving as the Chair of this committee. Please take the time to review last year’s Annual Report. Two years ago there was an implementation to do a report on writing at OSU. Last year’s co-chairs will be presenting at the Faculty Senate meeting tomorrow, November 14, on this topic and their recommendations.

Issues for the Coming Year
The plan for this committee is to start with course reviews. There are currently eleven course proposals in the cue.

Review 2012-2013 Annual Report

BCC Leadership and Committee Structure
We are still looking for co-Chairs. Please consider the possibility of taking a role as co-Chair of the committee in anticipation to continue next academic year as Chair. We do have Ex-Officio members from administration working with the committee. I would value students or colleagues who may be willing to serve as long as they meet the statutory requirements.

Review BCC Standing Rules

Course Proposal Review
We have a list of 11 courses that are in need of approval by the committee. There’s a set of checklists for this academic year which can be found on the Faculty Senate website: http://oregonstate.edu/senate/committees/bcc/resource/2013-2014.html. Each of our categories have word by word requirement; please check those. If these are new courses, they will also be reviewed by the Curriculum Council. New course reviews go through the college first, then the academic program, then Baccalaureate Core, then Curriculum Council. Review of current course proposals in the review summary on the secure site. At the very bottom of each of these proposals there is an accordion for Baccalaureate Core questions. One typical send back reason is that issues need to be visible on the syllabus for the students.

Kevin gave out assignments for course numbers to review to the present members of the committee. If there is a conflict of interests e.g. the course is something you, yourself proposed, then another committee member will review it. Kevin will email a link to the proposals on the secure site and also the assignments. You will need to review the courses on a .docx document and then email them to Kevin Gable. Kevin would appreciate having these reviews done and in his inbox by next Friday, November 22.

Discussion Fall 2013 Category Reviews

• Mathematics
• Speech
• Fitness
• WIC classes from Agricultural Sciences, Business, and Public Health and Human Sciences

There are a total of forty-three courses per the current category reviews. Roughly twenty-five of them are WIC.

Future Meetings
At the next meeting, the reviewers will present what they have found and what, if anything, needs improvement. We try to accommodate the breadth of schedules and understand that not everyone can make every meeting. We are going to try to find a time when those who were absent today can make it, and hopefully as many of us as possible can be there. Please try to make it at least every other meeting. Kevin would like another meeting before Thanksgiving, probably in the morning. We also need to schedule training for everyone for the technology to access the tools and Qualtrics.

Meeting adjourned at 4:01 PM