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Applying Rigorous Analysis to General Education Reform
Eric Ruckh, David Sill, and Michael Palmer
• BRIDGE and AQIP are central to SIUE
• Simultaneous processes
• Culture of rigor in scholarship of teaching and learning
AQIP
• Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association
• Alternative process for maintaining accreditation
AQIP Process
Systems PortfolioSystems Appraisal
Strategy ForumAnnual Updates
Action Projects
Systems Portfolio
• Regularly updated—100 pages
• Overview and nine categories, including:– Helping Students Learn– Understanding Students' & Stakeholders'
Needs– Valuing People– Leading and Communicating
• Systems appraisal every four years
General Education Reform Started with the Objectives Project
• 2003—AAC&U’s Greater Expectations Institute
• 2004—AAC&U’s General Education Institute
• 2005—BRIDGE (Baccalaureate Reform through Integrated Design of General Education)
BRIDGESecretarial
Support
Provost FacultySenate
InformationKnowledge
IntegrationLinkage
CommunicationWriting
Speaking
ApplicationCitizenship
Design Teams
FacultyConversations
BRIDGE 2005-2007
• Phase I—Eleven design teams completed proposals by March 15, 2006
• Phase II—Three design teams (May 2006)– Distribution model– Core curriculum– Learning communities
• March 29, 2007--All faculty meeting
• Fall 2007—Faculty Senate action
Comparison—Systems Portfolio and BRIDGE designs
• Do they reflect the same culture?
• What are the underlying assumptions and frameworks?
• What can we learn from a rigorous analysis?
• Can theory and research improve practice?
Systems Portfolio
Theoretical Frame
Loosely from Michel Foucault
Structure of a text:
• Aims/Purpose
• Order/Relation
• Field/‘Unsaid’
Assumptions
Exercise
• Examine Page from Systems Portfolio– What are its aims? What relations does it
establish? What are its unsaid assumptions?
• Examine Page from a design proposal– What are its aims? What relations does it
establish? What are its unsaid assumptions?
• Comparison--Alignment– What is important or significant?
Report out
• What did you find?
• Were there any surprises?
Theoretical FrameIn Application
• Aims/Purpose
• Order/Relation
• Field/‘Unsaid’
Assumptions
Comparison of
the two texts
Reflective Questions:• What are the underlying assumptions and
frameworks of your institutional culture?
• How do you know them?
• Do your institutional projects align with your university’s culture?