University General Education Committee Meeting on 09/08/2023 at 09:00 AM
Meeting will take place at: 52 Bascom
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Background and Useful Links for UW-Madison General Education:
a. Website: https://gened.wisc.edu/; i. Course Criteria: (Communication, Ethnic Studies, Quantitative Reasoning)
b. Guide: https://guide.wisc.edu/undergraduate/#requirementsforundergraduatestudytext
c. Operating Procedures; Meetings; Member roles for term members, ex officio
members, and liaisons; standing and ad hoc subcommittees (in Box)
3. Approval of notes, UGEC meeting May 12, 2023
4. Announcements and Updates
a. SOAR Updates (Shirin Malekpour, Carren Martin)
b. INTER-LS 145 and Math 96 (Shirin Malekpour, Benedek Valko)
c. New Committee: Placement Testing Questions (Shirin Malekpour)
d. Rebranding Project (Sara McKinnon)
e. FIGs, Liberal Arts Essay Contest (Nathan Phelps)
f. Reminder memos: Quantitative Reasoning, Ethnic Studies, Communication B (in
box)
g. Changes in L&S Teaching & Learning Administration
h. Other work we did to launch the semester?
5. The Year Ahead –
a. “Enhancing” the Ethnic Studies Requirement
b. Assessment of Student Learning and new Academic Outcomes and Assessment
committee
c. New Provost, Chancellor’s interest in Big Ideas
d. Other topics?
Open to the public