Educated Person Dialogue Web Site:
^{Reasons for this Dialogue | How This Dialogue Works and How to Join | Background Information}

 Current schedule of discussion topics and dates [pdf]

Resources to help you facilitate your dialogues with students:

• SJSU/CSU Information
• SJSU Affiliations
• Reports from Higher Education Organization
• Interesting Activities from other Universities
• Materials from Face-to-Face Dialogues
• University Scholar Self Assessment Tool [pdf]
• Articles

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:
    • http://www.calstate.edu/acadsen/E-Senator/Resolutions/1997-1998/2388.shtml
    • http://www.calstate.edu/acadsen/E-Senator/Resolutions/1997-1998/2388a.shtm
• SJSU general information
• • SJSU Mission Statement
  • Promoting an understanding of the value of a liberal education
    • SS-S04-4 - Promoting Liberal Education [pdf]
  • 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

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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)

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Reports from Higher Education Organization

• Greater Expectations - a report and discussion on liberal education from AACU 
  • What is a liberal education? - an explanationof confusing terms from the AACU report
  • Final report [pdf]
  • Very brief summary [pdf]
• Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP):
  • Vision for the New Academy [pdf]  
  • Liberal Education Outcomes: A Preliminary Report on Student Achievement in College [pdf]
  • AAC&U videos
• 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) 
• 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
• 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
• 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 information
  • Main web site
  • 1-page overview to the 5 cluster areas [pdf]
• Student preparation for college:
  • Policy Implications Report
  • ACT, Crisis at the Core(2005)
  • ACT, ReadingBetween 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."

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Interesting Activities from other Universities

• Six Principles for Undergraduate Educationfrom 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
  • Book review by Erin Bendily in EducationReview

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Materials from Face-to-Face Dialogues

• Sustainability
  • Campus Survey (9/24/07 brownbag [pdf]
• Quantitative Literacy
  • Slides from 10-5-06 brown bag presented by Professor Hilary Nixon [pdf]
  • Slides from 9-14-06 brown bag presented by Professors Brad Jackson and Mike Pogodzinski [pdf]
  • 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

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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

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