General Education Committee

Minutes of the October 18, 2006 GEC Meeting

GEC members present: Sherry Saterstrom (chair, FA), Karl Fink (HUM), Elizabeth Leer (SSF), Kathy Granquist (Registrar’s office, ex-officio), Kathy Shea (NSM), Solveig Zempel (Associate Dean, IGS), Maren Anderson (student), Anne Sabo (IGS).

The meeting was called to order at 2:30 p.m.

Minutes from the October 11 meeting were approved as revised.

The committee discussed the format of letters for re-certification of courses with GE attributes.

The letter from the Norwegian Department submitted for ALS-L and ALS-A credit will be written to serve as a sample for other departments with similar lists of courses under review.

Re-certification was approved for ES 270, ALS-A.

The schedule for GEC meetings was revisited with a change of meetings to Thursdays, 4:15-5:15.

The next meeting is scheduled for October 26, at 4:15.

Respectfully submitted,
Karl J. Fink, Secretary pro tempore