Why is the pilot starting August of 2006?
A6. The revised core curriculum is the product of years of collaborative efforts by faculty and administrators who served on the Core Curriculum Task Force (2002-2005) or on several design teams (2004-2005). During these years, the faculty and administrators reviewed the College’s mission statement and goals; the standing core’s curriculum requirements and course designs; and the national consensus for “new accountability” of college achievement and student learning. To achieve the latter, faculty and administrators designed the current pilot that consists of four goals and eighteen explicitly stated student learning outcomes. In May of 2005, faculty voted 74 to 43 to test the revised core from 2006 to 2009. After the vote, a year was needed by General Education to finalize the academic program’s infrastructure and overall assessment plans; to review and finalize performance criteria needed to achieve learning outcomes; to organize faculty development workshops; to create non-tradition
