EDUCATED PERSON DIALOGUE
What Does It Mean to be an Educated Person?
How is this Campus Dialogue concept relevant to SJSU's curricula and programs? What is the meaning of an Educated Person for students? What is our role as faculty? These are just a few of many questions that touch the hearts of our faculty in our ongoing Dialogue. In this site, you will find meanings to your questions regarding:
- Reasons for this Dialogue
- How this Dialogue Works and How to Join
- Background Information
Reasons for this Dialogue
Meaning of an "Educated Person" - Universities continually discuss what it means to be an educated person, what a "liberal education" means or looks like and why it is or is not important, and how general education courses help or hinder. Given several upcoming areas where the Senate will be discussing initiatives and involved with activities surrounding these topics, it is important to get people from all parts of the SJSU campus community involved in discussing and sharing ideas on this important and timely topic.
We all face the question of what it means to be an "educated person" regularly in helping students to know why they are required to take GE courses, why they should get involved in campus activities outside of class, how to help students become lifelong learners, and how to reinforce GE skills and knowledge in major courses.
The areas where the Senate was specifically involved in this topic in 2003-2005 included (this is noted because the dialogue was established by Annette Nellen when she became chair of the Senate in May 2003):
- WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) accreditation
- MUSE (Metropolitan University Scholar's Experience) and
FYE (First Year Experience)
- Honors College
- 2005 review of GE Guidelines that is called for in S96-9 This was completed in Spring 2005. Click here for the revised guidelines.
- A Senate referral on exploring ways to help students to better understand their role in the learning process and becoming a university level scholar (how faculty can play a greater role in helping students become an educated person). This referral stems from discussion at the Fall 2001 Senate Retreat.
- Updating of the RTP policy - should a professor's dossier or teaching portfolio include a description of their teaching and learning philosophy and how their course design and delivery helps to facilitate student advancement to becoming lifelong learners?
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