Institute on General Education
Application Procedure
Thank you for your interest in the Institute; the deadline was February 19, 2010. Applicants have been notified of their status.
Applicants use an online form to submit names and contact information for a team leader and at least four additional team members, a President's authorization, and a narrative statement that addresses the questions below.
Note: Five-person teams must include a senior academic officer and faculty members from a range of disciplines, and reflect a campus’s diversity.
Questions to be addressed in the narrative portion of the application:
1. Need: What is your current general education model and what has motivated a desire for redesign? Have assessment results prompted the review or do you need help creating an assessment plan? What work already has been accomplished and by whom? What resource or political issues are at play in the process? Has a unified vision of the planned redesign emerged?
2. Goals: What high-priority tasks do you expect your team to work on during the Institute? These should be the tasks that, if advanced substantially during the Institute, would lead your team and campus to judge your efforts a success.
3. Team characteristics: In what ways do your team members reflect the range of concerns surrounding general education redesign on your campus? How do they reflect the diversity and the various interest groups on your campus?
4. Contributions: What do you believe your institution can contribute to the Institute?
The narrative should be clear and concise—no more than five pages in length.
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