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Committee for College-wide Requirements (CCR)

In fall 2011 the Provost, working with the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council, initiated the formation of a body that would compile, review, and synthesize the material generated for the Integrated Core Curriculum (ICC) in order to develop the final details of the ICC structure. This committee, approved by the Faculty Council in September of 2011, was named the Committee for College-wide Requirements (CCR). Point one of the CCR charge reads: “Proposals for college-wide requirements would normally be developed by a task force appointed by the Provost/VPAA or Faculty Council. In some instances CCR may be asked to develop a program that has been designed conceptually by such a task force and approved in principle by the faculty.” In other words the CCR is tasked with taking curricular designs and suggestions from faculty in all schools, individually and through their respective curriculum committees and deans, and proposing a detailed implementation plan including associated academic policies. One member of the CCR serves as a faculty liaison to the Academic Policies Committee in part to help articulate the curriculum approval process. The CCR represents all schools through its elected members, who have the responsibility for defining the final curricular elements of the (ICC). The CCR compiles, reviews, and synthesizes college-wide general education requirements and structural elements of the ICC based on input from faculty committees and task forces from all schools. The CCR has authority to approve (or recommend to the Academic Policies for approval) elements of the implementation of the ICC.

The faculty elected two at-large faculty representatives:

James Pfrehm,Assistant Professor

School of Humanities and Sciences

Chair Jack Rossen, Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Sciences

Current members of the CCR were elected in each school by a faculty vote in October 2011:

Granger Macy, Associate Professor

School of Business

Mike Buck, Clinical Associate Professor

School of Health Sciences and Human Performance

Luke Keller, Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Sciences

John White, Associate Professor

School of Music

Jack Powers, Assistant Professor

Roy H. Park School of Communications

Director of the Core Curriculum

Danette Johnson, Professor

School of Humanities and Sciences

Associate Director of the Core Curriculum

Shaianne Osterreich, Associate Professor

School of Humanities and Sciences

Forms and Guidlines

CCR is now accepting ICC designation requests for Diversity, Quantitative Literacy, Writing Intensive, and Capstone courses. Guidelines and the form for requesting designations are below. Themes and Perspectives designation information is forthcoming.

ICC Diversity Attribute Form

ICC Quantitative Literacy Attribute Form

ICC Writing Intensive Attribute Form

Guidelines to Course Designations in the Integrative Core Curriculum

This document describes the charge and current strategy of the CCR, summarizes the background and events leading to the current work to implement a college-wide general education program (the Integrated Core Curriculum), and provides details and a schedule for CCR work over the next several months. Approved by the CCR on Monday, December 12, 2011. Now briefly describes the role of the Director of the Core Curriculum.Click Here

DRAFT: IC Integrative Core Curriculum Description and Definitions

This document now describes the IC Integrative Core Curriculum including the complete set of Themes with detailed descriptions, examples of inquiries that would align with them, and descriptions of the additional requirements in the all-college general education program. This version has been submitted to the Academic Policies Committee (Curricular sub-Committee) for comments and suggestions prior to a full review and submission to the full APC.This is still a work in progress so please enter comments or suggestions below or contact your CCR representative. (DRAFT approved for IC community distribution by the CCR on Thursday, March 8, 2012)Click Here

Faculty Feedback

This is a draft and represents the beginning of the process. We are now soliciting faculty feedback. We don't think there will be more or fewer themes and we are not asking for copy editing or word smithing unless a description is unclear, nor are we able to address suggestions for departures from the current ICC plan. In particular, we are interested in whether the Themes and Perspectives framework described in this document is helpful for you and your department as you contemplate designing and altering courses for the ICC. Comments submitted to this google link will be forwarded to the CCR: Click Here

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