Consultation for Fall 22 GE Minors

Before COVID-19, the Curriculum Advisory Board (CAB) worked closely with students, faculty, staff, and administrators to implement Senate's changes to GE. From the first week of fall 2019, CAB worked in a transparent and consultative process: we met every milestone to implement the revised program in fall 2022, as mandated by EM 19-021. Then came COVID-19. For understandable reasons, EPPC canceled its meeting on March 26 (when the GE Minors were scheduled to appear as EPPC Introduction Items), and then Senate Executive Committee voted to postpone consideration of all GE Minors. Nevertheless, Chico State students, faculty, staff, and administrators have produced a set of GE Minors, posted online and shared with Department Chairs since April, which will be introduced in EPPC and Senate in September 2020. Chico State looks forward to launching a refreshed GE curriculum in fall 2022.

Following the approval of EM 19-021, the Curriculum Advisory Board (CAB) has planned a number of public events in 2019-20 to implement required changes to the GE Pathways Program, and as significant changes to academic programs all changes to the GE Minors will require a full senate process in Spring 2020. Together, Chico State students, faculty and staff are collaborating in the construction of a revised GE Program (this list will be updated throughout the year).

Consultation resulted in significant campus feedback, which has guided CAB's implementation of EM 19-021.

June 4: Career Center
July 11: Students in Cross-Cultural Leadership Center and First-Year Experience
July 23: Undergraduate Education Directors
August 20: Campus Advising Collaborative
August 22: Office of Admissions
August 23: History Department
August 27: Communication with Deans and Associate Deans
August 29: EPPC
August 30: Student Senate
September 4: Campus Forum Announcement in The Orion
September 5: Students in Cross-Cultural Leadership Center
September 5: All Announce email from the Provost and Vice Provost
September 6: Tribal Relations
September 6: Students (peer mentors) in REACH
September 6: Chairs' Council
September 6: Department of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
August 21-September 9: Pathway Coordinator (all 10 Pathways) emails to faculty teaching in Fall '19
September 9: Campus Forum Student Announcement and Employee Announcement
September 10: Campus Forum: Exploring GE Pathways Possibilities
September 10-September 20: Campus Forum Online Survey
September 11: Campus Forum update (email) to Academic Senate and Associated Student Officers
September 12: University Diversity Council working group on Social Justice, Diversity and Inclusion Across the Curriculum
September 12: Online Survey Student Announcement and Employee Announcement
September 12: Campus Forum Student Focus Group: University Housing Resident Advisors and Students
September 13: Campus Forum Student Focus Group: Study Abroad Peer Advisors
September 13: Department of English
September 13: Department of Kinesiology
September 13: Department of Nutrition and Food Science
September 13: Department of Sociology
September 17: Online Survey and Focus Group All-Faculty email from Dean of Undergraduate Education
September 17: Campus Forum Student Focus Group: Academic Advising Student Interns
September 18: Campus Forum Student Focus Group: Student Veterans
September 18: Campus Forum Student Focus Group: Student Athletes
September 19: Campus Forum Student Focus Group: Cross-Cultural Leadership Center
September 19: Academic Senate Announcement of Online Survey closing on September 20
September 19: Survey of employers at Engineering Career Fair
September 20: Campus Forum Faculty Focus Group: 8-9 AM, SSC 466
September 20: Department of Multicultural and Gender Studies
September 25: Survey of employers at Business Career Fair
September 26: College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management Curriculum Committee
September 27: Student Senate
September 29: Survey of 240 students in over 50 majors
October 4: Department of Anthropology
October 11-18: Student Survey
October 11: Email update to all faculty teaching a GE course in Fall 2019 including link to student survey
October 11: Email update to Academic Senate Officers and Department Chairs including link to student survey
October 14: Student Survey advertised as a Student Announcement
October 15: Meeting with Current and Former Pathway Coordinators (2012-2019)
October 18: Department of Music and Theatre
October 21: Meeting with Current and Former Diversity Studies Pathway Coordinators and University Diversity Council Workgroup Chairs
October 31: Forms emailed to Chairs of all Departments that offer one more more GE course(s)
October 31: Update to the Academic Senate Officers.
October 31: EPPC Information Item
November 1: Chairs' Council
November 7: Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities
December 31: Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
December 20-January 31: Outreach to Department Chairs and College Deans
January 10: College of Business Associate Dean
January 14: Provost Academic Council, Meeting with College Deans and Associate Deans
January 21: Call for GE Course Proposals sent to Department Chairs and College Deans
January 28: Notice of Ongoing Call for GE Course Proposals sent to All Faculty
January 28: College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean and Associate Dean
January 30: Academic Senate Information Item (February 3 CAB subcommittees announced)
February 3: Public CAB subcommittee meetings
February 4: CAB GE Minors Discussion Item
February 11: CAB GE Minors Introduction Item
February 20: EPPC Discussion Item
March 5: EPPC Discussion Item (March 6 CAB subcommittee announced)
March 6: Chairs' Council (March 6 CAB subcommittee announced)
March 6: Public CAB subcommittee meeting
March 10: CAB GE Minors Action Item
April 13: GE Minor proposals (to be considered in Fall 2020) published online and emailed to Department Chairs

Please note: Departments listed above have requested a CAB presentation, and any department (or college, office, etc.) is encouraged to request a CAB presentation if desired.

In 2018, Chico State completed a five-year review of its excellent and distinctive General Education (GE) Program, and the Academic Senate responded promptly by approving changes to GE (for Fall 2022) to make GE Minors even more coherent, meaningful and authentic, while adding more possibilities for exploration for students not pursuing a GE Minor.