Baccalaureate Core Reform Committee

Members present: Ivan Arismendi, Patrick Ball, Erin Bird, Sherman Bloomer, Mary Chuinard, John Edwards, Brandi Fuhrman, Troy Hall, Laura Hampton, Heath Henry, McKenzie Huber, Tim Jensen, Lori Kayes, Kerry Kincanon, Todd Palmer, Sarah Perrault, Lori McGraw, Kara Ritzheimer, Patti Sakurai, Inara Scott, Karen Watte, Kaplan Yalcin
Members absent: JoAnne Bunnage, Hunter Calvert, Daniel Faltesek, Alix Gitelman, Selina Heppell, Khawater Hussein, Erika McCalpine, Nana Osei-Kofi, Hannah Rempel

Timeline Reminder and Definitions

• Baccalaureate Core (BC) – OSU current general education model
• General Education (Gen Ed) – part of liberal education curriculum shared by all students
• Template(s) – draft of general education curricular structures the BC Reform Committee is considering, editing & fine tuning. Two-three templates will be shared at the roads show.
• Model – a final general education curricular structure that includes categories, number of courses per category, credit requirements, etc.
• A single model will be presented at Faculty Senate in May and will be voted on in June. If approved, implementation will follow.

Report on Last Meeting’s Group Brainstorming

• Responses from the breakout groups were compiled into a Google document.

Assess Current Templates and Make Suggestions – breakout groups

• Committee broke out into workgroups

Report Back to Group

• Responses from the breakout groups were compiled into a Google document.