Resources to Help Facilitate Dialogue with Students
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SJSU/CSU Information
- Purpose of an undergraduate education (CSU)
- California Education Code §66050
- "Baccalaureate Education in the California State University", AS-2388-97/EX/Floor - November 6-7, 1997, CSU Statewide Academic Senate. See:
- SJSU general information
- SJSU Mission Statement
- Promoting an understanding of the value of a liberal education
- Helping students understand what is means to an educated person
- Rubric [pdf] to help students understand the meaning of becoming a university scholar
- GE (General Education) at SJSU
SJSU Affiliations
- AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
- AASCU (American Association of State Colleges and Universities)
- Campus Compact
- CASTL (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
- WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges)
Reports from Higher Education Organization
- Greater Expectations- a report and discussion on liberal education from AACU
- What is a liberal education? - an explanation of confusing terms from the AACU report
- Final report [pdf]
- Very brief summary [pdf]
- Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP):
- AACU web site on liberal learning
- Importance of Collaboration of Academic Affairs & Student Affairs: Powerful Partnerships: A Shared Responsibility for Learning [pdf], Joint Report of AAHE, ACPA, and NASPA; June 1998
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
- The summary and the full report [pdf] of the Graduation Rate Outcomes Study (2005) {NOT FOUND}
- Campus Compact (SJSU is a member) - civic engagement and service learning as part of the learning process
- Also see the book - Educating Citizens : Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility,
- Critical Thinking Skills in the College Curriculum [pdf] - 4/88 report from CA Community Colleges Academic Senate {NOT FOUND}
- Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering California's Public Colleges and Universities [pdf] - 2002 report from CA Community Colleges Academic Senate {NOT FOUND}
- National Education Goa l #6 includes: "The proportion of college graduates who demonstrate an advanced ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and solve problems will increase substantially.
- NSSE : NESSE Benchmards [pdf] 1-page overview to the 5 cluster areas
- Student preparation for college:
- Policy Implications Report {NOT FOUND}
- ACT, Crisis at the Core (2005)
- ACT, Reading Between the Lines (2006)
- GAO, College Completion May 2003
- ETS - A Culture of Evidence: Post Secondary Assessment and Learning Outcomes (2006)
- Calls for an accountability system that focuses on "four dimensions of learning: Workplace readiness and general skills; Domain-specific knowledge and skills; Soft skills, such as teamwork; Communication and creativity; Student engagement with learning."
Interesting Activities from other Universities
- Six Principles for Undergraduate Education from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
- Eight Abilities for College Students to Obtain - from Alverno College
- Developing Educated Persons - from Southwest Missouri State University, a metropolitan university. This goal is part of the University's 6-year plan towards its centennial - take a look at how important this goal is to the university.
- University Studies Objectives- Southeast Missouri State University
- University Studies Program at Portland State University
- Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter by Kuh, et al; Jossey-Bass, 2005 - a very helpful book
Materials from Face-to-Face Dialogues
- Sustainability
- Campus Survey (9/24/07 brownbag [pdf] {NOT FOUND, any backup file?}
- Quantitative Literacy
- Slides from 10-5-06 brown bag presented by Professor Hilary Nixon [pdf] {NOT FOUND, any backup file?}
- Slides from 9-14-06 brown bag presented by Professors Brad Jackson and Mike Pogodzinski [pdf] {NOT FOUND, any backup file?}
- AAC&U's Summer 2004 issue of Peer Review on QL
- National Numeracy Network
- Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum
- Book - Mathematics and Democracy - The Case for Quantitative Literacy
- Online QLtest from Indiana State
- Information from Carleton College
- More about our Face-to-Face Dialogue
Articles
- "What is a Generally Educated Person?" by Jerry Gaff, 2004
- "Creating Shared Responsibility for General Education and Assessment"- Fall 2004 edition of Peer Review - selected articles available online
- Educating for personal and social responsibility (AACU)
- "Practicing Liberal Education: Formative Themes in the Re-invention of Liberal Learning" by Carol Geary Schneider
- "What Will It Mean to Be Educated in the 21st Century?" [ppt] by Judith Ramaley, Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
- "The Oriel Common Room: General Education and Faculty Culture" by Robert Holyer in AACU's Liberal Education, Winter 2002, Volume 88, Number 1
- "What Really Matters in College: How Students View and Value Liberal Education" by Debra Humphreys and Abigail Davenport, Liberal Education, Summer/Fall 2005
- "Who is an Educated Person?" by K.P.Mohanan, Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning, National University of Singapore
- "What Does it Mean to be an Educated Person" by Charles L. Slater, The School Administrator, Sept 2005