Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting members present: Aidas Banaitas, Kathy Becker-Blease, Kelsey Emard, Daniel Faltesek, Andrew Harker, McKenzie Huber, Matt Kennedy, Lori McGraw, David Roundy, Rorie Solberg, Kaplan Yalcin
Voting members absent: Heather Arbuckle, Jack Istok
Ex-Officio members present: DPD Director– Bradley Boovy; Academic Programs and Assessment – Heath Henry; WIC Director – Sarah Perrault Tinker; Ecampus– Karen Watte
Guests present: Alix Gitelman

Update on the Baccalaureate Core Director Position and Search – Alix Gitelman

• The position has been approved by the Provost.
• A search committee is being formed – the search will be internal and posted for three-four weeks.
• Position description – How can a Bacc Core Director alleviate some of the work of the committee? Can the director be a filtering process for proposals?
  • Short term role in assisting with Bacc Core reform.
  • Pinch points in the long term that the Director can assist the committee with.
    • Someone who can handle processes so the committee can focus on reviews
    • Someone who can develop a process for missing paperwork.
    • Assist with implementation of the new Bacc Core
    • Develop workshops for Bacc Core like there are for WIC and DPD
  • Information feels rather fragmented across the OSU site and resources.
    • Bacc Core Director would work with the scheduling desk and Registrar’s office to ensure information is consistent and up to date.
    • Repairing/developing relationships with Units
  • A ‘champion’ of the Bacc Core who can go out and explain to units why the Bacc Core is important.
• Who can apply to the position?
  • Open to professional and instructional faculty.
    • 1.0 FTE
• A search advocate has not yet been brought in.

Dual-listed Course Review

• SOIL 395 – Science, Technology & Society(STS)/WIC
  • Meets all WIC outcomes and criteria.
  • They cover 9 course specific LOs in addition to the WIC and STS outcomes. Total of 15 learning outcomes.
  • The writing assignments total somewhere around 10K words. It is a lot for students to handle.
  • It seems like some of the writing assignments do not meet STS outcomes.
  • This was a big part of their assessment plan historically, but it seems like it has been more used for WIC in recent years.
  • It does not seem to meet the cross-disciplinary requirement.
  • Assessment is largely around science
    • Motion to decertify in STS and recertify in WIC; seconded. Motion passes with 12 in favor, none against. None abstaining.
• TA 332 – Literature & the Arts/WIC
  • The only potential issue on the WIC side is that the wording on the writing assignment is somewhat vague in the syllabus.
    • APA noted that the second WIC outcome does not appear to be met adequately.
      • Instruction on how to write for their major seems to be folded in with discussion and review.
  • What discipline are students writing in?
    • Mostly Liberal Arts students in Speech Communications
      • How does it teach students to write in their major?
      • No majors list it as their WIC course.
        • In the sense of degree completion, does it make sense for this course to be a WIC?
        • May not be as accessible to students who do not want to take this course for a WIC credit.
  • Missing verbatim WIC statement
    • Motion to recertify in L&A and decertify in WIC; seconded. Motion passes with 9 in favor, one against. One abstention.

Category Review – Contemporary Global Issues

• Discussion Needed
  • SOC 480
    • Will be discussed during the next meeting.