Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 7:40 AM
To: senators@lists.oregonstate.edu

Subject: Common Core Articulation

Senators are urged share the below information with colleagues and all are welcome to attend the following meeting.

Common Core Legislation in 2005 Legislative Session

Discussions around the Oct 7 and 8 OUS Board meeting included two proposed sources of a common core curriculum for Oregon's 17 community colleges and 7 public universities. A few legislators appear to be drafting such legislation and the Joint Boards of Accreditation Committee has submitted a specific General Education Transfer Module ( http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ifs/dir04/GENEDT_9_15_04.pdf).

On Oct 21 from 3:00 to 5:00 in ALS 4000, OSUs Faculty Senate Executive Committee and IFS will sponsor a town hall meeting to solicit faculty input and reaction to these proposals. A panel of representatives from the OSU Faculty Senate, IFS and community colleges will describe the proposals and receive the responses of OSU's faculty. Other details on the proposals and process can be obtained at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ifs/dir04/dirMBF/MBF.html, starting with item 18. Examples or observations from other states are available at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ifs/dir04/dirTGEC/TGEC.html

Faculty concerned with the structure of a common core and with the methods by which curricular change occurs should be interested in this town hall, and are encouraged to attend.

By the end of October each OUS campus will have held a meeting on this issue. The outcomes of these meetings will be communicated as soon as possible to all faculty senate presidents and reported by IFS at its December meeting.

W. Daniel Edge OSU IFS Senator Head, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Oregon State University, 104 Nash Corvallis, OR 97331-3803 (541) 737-2910 Fax (541) 737-3590 daniel.edge@oregonstate.edu http://fw.oregonstate.edu/