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Reasons for This Dialogue

How This Dialogue Works and How to Join

Background Information

Schedule for Face-to-Face Dialogues (brown bag meetings)

Calendar of Events of the Center of Faculty Development & Support

EDUCATED PERSON DIALOGUE
What Does It Mean to be an Educated Person?

Background Information to
Facilitate Your Dialogues

• SJSU/CSU Information
• SJSU Affiliations
• Reports from Higher Education Organization
• Interesting Activities from other Universities
• Materials from Face-to-Face Dialogues
• 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
• Vision Statement 
• Promoting an understanding of the value of a liberal education
  • SS-S04-4 - Promoting Liberal Education
  • SJSU Shared Value of Learning
  • Goals 2010 - 1.1 calling for curricular enhancement to improve integration of liberal and professional education
• Helping students understand what is means to an educated person.
  • Rubric to help students understand the meaning of becoming a university scholar
• GE (General Education) at SJSU
  
• Executive Order No. 595 - GE Breadth Requirements (11/20/92)
• 2005 GE Program Guidelines
  • Summary of objectives and course requirements
• Information from the Undergraduate Studies Office

• 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 in pdf format.
  • Very brief summary.
• Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP):
  • Vision for the New Academy  
  • Liberal Education Outcomes: A Preliminary Report on Student Achievement in College
• AACU web site on liberal learning
• Learning Reconsidered - A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience - read this one to get a better sense of the need to also focus on the transitional and developmental needs of our students and the need to build "powerful partnerships" between Student Affairs and Academic Affairs.
  • Learning Reconsidered 2 - Information on ordering this book
  • Importance of Collaboration of Academic Affairs & Student Affairs: Powerful Partnerships: A Shared Responsibility for Learning, Joint Report of AAHE, ACPA, and NASPA; June 1998
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
  • The summary and the full report of the Graduation Rate Outcomes Study (2005) 
• Campus Compact (SJSU is a member) - civic engagement and service learning as part of the learning process
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) - American Democracy Project site focused on creating educated citizens. [Bill Nance is the SJSU rep to this project.]  Also see the book - Educating Citizens : Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, noted on this site with a link to Amazon.com; Bill recommends the book.
  • Project Abstract
  • Bill Nance's PowerPoint™ overview from his 9/29/03 presentation to the Educated Citizen Face-to-Face Dialogs 
• Critical Thinking Skills in the College Curriculum - 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 - 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
• Student preparation for college:
  • ACT, National Curriculum Survey 2005-2006 
    • Policy Implications Report
  • 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."

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• 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
  • Curricular Review report from Harvard (April 2004), includes discussion of what it means to be an educated man or woman in the 21st century. Here is the 2-page summary prepared by A. Nellen.
  • 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 Education Review

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• Materials from Face-to-Face Dialogues
  • Sustainability
    • Campus Survey (9/24/07 brownbag)
  • Quantitative Literacy
    • Slides from 10-5-06 brown bag presented by Professor Hilary Nixon
    • Slides from 9-14-06 brown bag presented by Professors Brad Jackson and Mike Pogodzinski
    • AAC&U's Summer 2004 issue of Peer Review on QL
    • National Numeracy Network
    • Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum
    • Mathematics Association of America Special Interest Group on QL
    • Book - Mathematics and Democracy - The Case for Quantitative Literacy
    • Online QL test 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
  • "What Kind of Citizen? Political Goals and Educational Agendas," by Westheimer and Kahne, Campus Compact Reader, Winter 2003.
  • Other articles on civic engagement from Campus Reader

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• New Faculty Orientation
• Teacher Scholar
• Faculty-in-Residence
• Teaching & Learning Resources
• Instructional Technology Resources
• back

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