Institute on General Education and Assessment

2010 Session-Specific Readings, Resources and Handouts

Alphabetical by presenter's name - all files are PDFs unless otherwise indicated. Note that some materials cannot be made available due to copyright restriction. Some PDF documents are password protected. Please email Kathryn Angeles at angeles@aacu.org for the password.

J. Herman Blake

• Retention and Graduation of Undergraduate Students: A Comprehensive Approach (required readings)
• Service Learning and Community Engagement: 1968-2008 (required readings)

Scott Evenbeck

• General Education a Case Study (powerpoint)
1. Personal Development Plan
   
• Program Assessment and Intentional Learning (powerpoint)

1. One-Year Retention Rates
2. Academic Advising Portal
3. TLC and Bridge Retention Chart
4. MH Highlights
5. MH Summer Bridge Qualitative Report
6. MH Summer Bridge Evaluation
7. MH Quiz
• Comprehensive Approaches to the First Year Experience (powerpoint)

Bret Eynon

• Faculty Learning, Student Learning and Institutional Change
1. Doing Faculty Development As If We Valued Learning Most (web link)
2. Double Loop Learning in Higher Education
• Making Connections: Supporting Integrative Learning with ePortfolio
  1. ePortfolio, Learning & Change at LaGuardia Community College (web link)
  2. What Is Integrative Learning? (web link)
  3. Statement on Integrative Learning (web link)

Ann Ferren

• Keeping it Real: Evolution or Revolution
  1. Keep it Real: Evolution or Revolution (power point)
  2. Force Field Analysis
  3. High-Impact Chart
• Designs for General Education
  1. Designs for General Education (power point)
  2. Models Overview 2010
  3. Force Field Analysis
  4. High-Impact Chart

Ashley Finley

• Thinking Logically About General Education Reform: Does Your Plan Make Sense (web link)

Paul Gaston

• From Concept to Curriculum: Managing the Politics of General Education Reform
• Responding to the Challenge: European Higher Education Reform Call on U.S. Higher Education to Document Develop, and Defend General Education

Peggy Maki

• Diving Deeper into Pedagogy and Educational Practices through Your Assessment Plan (power point)
• Diving Deeper into Pedagogy and Educational Practices through Your Assessment Plan
• Building a Culture of Inquiry into Student Learning (power point)
• Building a Culture of Inquiry into Student Learning

Carol Geary Schneider

• Opening Plenary
1. Helping Students Connect (powerpoint)
2. Helping Students Connect handout
• Connect General Education and the Major
1. Gen Ed Workshop 2010 handout
• College Learning for the New Global Century (recommended)
  
• The Greater Expectations Report (recommended)
  

Sherwood Smith

• Cultures of Inclusion for Diversity: Addressing the Classrooms Communities & Curriculum
  1. Democracy and Diversity
  2. Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg

Barbara Wright

• Heavy Lifting: Building Capacity for Educational Effectiveness
1. Educational Effectiveness Framework
• Assessment, Accreditation & Accountability: Getting a Tripe-A Rating WASC rubrics (Web Links)
  1. Portfolios
  2. Capstones
  3. Program review
  4. Program Learning Outcomes
  5. General Education