Ongoing Activities
PHASE II: Model development and refinement
Fall 2023
- Development of initial course and program policies
Summer 2023
- Committee chair retreats (May and June 2023) for development of initial program draft
- Submission of initial program draft of EVP Carman for review and feedback (August 2023)
Spring 2023
- Focused research and recommendations (Feb-May 2023)
- Submission of initial sub-committee reports (May 2023)
PHASE I: Internal and external research
Fall 2022- Re-structuring into sub-committee format with focused, updated charges
- Synthesis of survey data and secondary research
- Develop draft preamble to guide program focus
Spring 2022
- Survey-based outreach to gather perspectives from faculty, students, campus co- and extra-curricular units, and off-campus stakeholders (including Wyoming community colleges)
- Department-level listening sessions as requested
- Secondary research into best practices regarding student learning, general education programming, co-curricular experience, and integrative/interdisciplinary models.
- April 5 Strategic Planning Idea Lab on General Education. Facilitated session with attendance from approximately 40 members of the UW community.
- Feedback gathered during approximately 100 department and unit visits (conducted by the UW Strategic Planning committee members, in conjunction with ongoing strategic planning)
- Development and adoption of guiding principles
- Identification of Phase I key tasks: campus data collection, questions for survey, communication goals
- NextGenUSP member participation at summer AAC&U Institute on General Education and Assessment
- Research of comparator institutions
- Initial effort to update charge with new provost
- First meeting of the full committee
- Formation and charging of Initial Committee
- Distribution of grounding readings
- Call for members
