Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting members present: Ivan Arismendi, Aidas Banaitis, Geoffrey Barstow, Daniel Faltesek, Lori McGraw, Kyle Niemeyer, Rene Reitsma, Kaplan Yalcin
Voting members absent: Heather Arbuckle, Matthew Kennedy, Kelsey Emard, Jack Istok, Justin St. Germain, Randy Rosenberger
Ex-Officio members present: Kali Furman – Difference, Power & Discrimination; Heath Henry – Office of Undergraduate Education; Karen Watte – Ecampus
Guests present: Funmi Amobi, Dwaine Plaza

CIM Training – Heath Henry

• Training for course proposal reviews and category reviews

NOTE: Training is required for new committee members. Continuing members are not required to attend but it is recommended.

• Some syllabus items, if missing, are an immediate send back. If you’re not sure about anything, feel free to bring it to the committee for discussion.
• Category Reviews – This year’s category up for review is Science, Technology & Society (STS). There are currently 63, there may be a few more added later.
  • Emails will come from Heath. It will have two important links – one goes to SharePoint and the other goes to the reviewer form.
    • Reviewer form is a Qualtrics form and saves as it goes.
      • You can leave fields blank, if you prefer. The form is for Baccalaureate Core Committee (BCC) records.
      • First page of the Qualtrics form is information related to the category. It includes:
        • Baccalaureate Core Learning Outcomes (BCLOs)
        • Criteria
        • Restrictions, if any
          • STS has a cap of 70 students, unless they have Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs).
          • STS has a writing assignment
          • Pre-requisites should not be restrictive
            • Pre-reqs on synthesis courses should generally be limited to Baccalaureate Core (BC) skills courses
      • Reviewing the syllabus
        • A syllabus must be included for each location, modality and instructor
          • If there are multiple instructors in one modality, check if they are using a shared syllabus. If they are each responsible for their own syllabus, they must each submit a syllabus.
        • Does it have the BC verbatim statement for STS?
        • Does it label and list the BCLOs verbatim?
        • Does it have a connection for how the course fits the category?
          • Faculty typically fill out the matrix, but it is not always used.
        • Does it have clear evidence for how the Category Student Learning Outcomes (CSLO)s are being assessed via the specific course activities?
        • Does the writing assignment meet all the requirements of the category?
          • Articulate a critical perspective on issues involving STS
          • Require at least 1,250 words
          • Requires two outside sources
          • Single, out of class assignment
    • SharePoint – everyone has access to SharePoint. Login with ONID email.
      • There is a folder for each course (courses are listed alphabetically)
        • If you cannot find a course, contact Heath Henry.
      • All documents related to the course will be in the folder. This includes:
        • Syllabus
        • Form filled out by submitter
          • If a question is gray, it was not shown to the submitter
        • CORE Report (enrollment data)
          • Locations, modalities
          • Colleges students are from
          • Enrollment (numbers, years, college)
            • Is enrollment pulling heavily from a particular college? Is it limiting to other colleges?
              • Some colleges list synthesis courses in the BC as part of their major, so it may have a larger skew from a particular college.
          • Grade scale
            • Is there an unusual amount of As, Fs or withdraws?
        • Review Table for Bacc Core (not always included – sometimes included as part of the Category review)
• CIM Proposals – Adding courses to the BC; can be for any category. Each category has its own requirements.
  • If you do not have access to CIM, contact [email protected] to request access.
• Form is fairly simple check-list – does not have course specific forms like the category reviews, but they are category specific.
• If it’s a new course, it’ll be labelled at the top of the CIM proposal
• Changes to current courses – additions are in green, removed text is red.
• For new courses, a syllabus is needed for each modality, but is not required for each instructor.
• Check the comments at the bottom of the proposal to see if there are any concerns from liaisons or reviewers from other committees.