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Message below issued in Spring 2004
Dear
Colleagues:
The General Education Steering Committee
was charged in November 2003 by Provost Coffman and the President
of Faculty Senate. Our task is to develop and implement
procedures for a campus-wide solicitation of ideas and proposals
about the future of general education on this campus.
We hope to complete this task by November 2004. Our
work will lead to further, extensive discussion and, eventually,
to a campus-wide decision about a future general education
program for undergraduates at K-State. The Steering
Committee members are not charged with making a
decision about the future of general education. Instead,
we are charged to put the process in motion by gathering information
and ideas.
As we embark on what is, in a sense, a
campus-wide brainstorming exercise on general education, the
steering committee is eager to receive your ideas and proposals
in writing. Our task, which will extend well into the
fall semester, is to gather information from individuals or
units.
You may submit your ideas about
the nature of general education or you may submit a specific
proposal -- at any level of detail -- describing what you
would like to see general education be, at K-State, in 3-5
years. We will continue to collect your ideas and proposals
through the early part of the fall semester.
We will then organize and categorize
what we receive and forward several
basic schemes to Provost Nellis. Our task is not to evaluate
proposals. Instead, we will simply categorize or group
them. We anticipate that the provost will then appoint a successor
committee to begin evaluating the proposals and to decide
upon the next appropriate steps, again with your help.
Gerald
Reeck, Chair
Department
of Biochemistry
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