Copyright (c) 2009 Illinois Wesleyan University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu Recent documents in Digital Commons@ IWU en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:42:06 PST 3600 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/4 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/4 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:25:02 PST The Academic Standards (AS) sub-committee of Curriculum Council (CC) has been charged to address problems and deficiencies with the writing sequence in the General Education program. This sequence consists of a first-year Gateway and two flagged Writing Intensive (WI) courses, one of which must be a course in the student's major. AS has decided to address the problems and deficiencies with Gateway fist because we believe the chronic staffing problems with Gateway require immediate attention. This document is thus concerned only with amending the first-year writing experience. Proposals concerning the WI courses, which will address the training and supervision of WI instructors as well as the role of the Writing Center, will be forthcoming. Curriculum Council http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/3 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/3 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:25:01 PST The Curriculum Council appointed the Gateway Assessment Task Force (GATF) in the Spring of 2002 with the charge of "designing and executing a comprehensive assessment of Gateway, and making recommendations to Academic Standards based on the results." The GATF was instructed to assess Gateway as a whole, emphasizing the program's primary goal of developing effective writing skills while not ignoring Gateway's other roles such as fostering critical thinking and introducing students to the university intellectual culture. Academic Standards selected members of the committee from among the faculty and student body in the Spring of 2002, and the group began its work in the Summer of 2002. The group met regularly for the entire 2002-2003 academic year to plan and implement the assessment. Gateway Assessment Task Force http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/2 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/2 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:25:00 PST This report should be viewed as an extension of the work undertaken by the Gateway Assessment Task Force (GATF) two years ago. In its final report, the GATF outlined two sets of recommendations. First, the report suggested that the Curriculum Council explore a portfolio-style assessment of student writing. The Academic Standards (AS) subcommittee has crafted a draft portfolio proposal that is currently under discussion. The second recommendation of the GATF focused on problems with staffing. Those recommendations serve as a point of departure for the more detailed proposals outlined below. Frank Boyd http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/1 http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cc_docs/1 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:23:54 PST In the Spring of 2005, the Academic Standards subcommittee of the Curriculum Council requested specific staffing proposals to promote a discussion by the full faculty. This report draws on an earlier report, "Revisiting Gateway: Issues and Recommendations," from December 2004. "Revisiting Gateway" provides a 13-page overview of our current staffing structure and reviews some of the challenges it presents. 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