Assessment That Works
We at Plymouth State University have been talking about appropriate assessment of our General Education program for most of the 20 years that I have been here. When we instituted…
National Survey of Student Engagement
Plymouth State University participates every other year in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which measures student participation in meaningful learning experiences. The survey is given to first year…
Lifelong Kindergarten
I'm on sabbatical for the Spring 2018 semester. My first sabbatical project, getting my knee replaced, began in earnest on January 12 and I've made great progress on it over…
Advising and General Education
The General Education Committee held a town hall on Friday, December 8, to discuss the President's idea of theming General Education. He has written in his blog that "while individual…
Guest Post from Alex Richard
A couple of weeks ago, my First Year Seminar (FYS) classes discussed ways that we might assess the learning outcome in our class related to General Education. In particular, at…
General Education and Clusters Revisited
Back at the beginning of the semester, I wrote about the realization I had that President Birx's Four Tools of Clusters mean that when we talk about "cluster curriculum," we…
Lessons Learned Five Weeks In
The semester is five weeks old and my experiment with open pedagogy in Plymouth State University's First Year Seminar has been an up and down experience so far. I have…
Cluster Curriculum is General Education
After a busy summer, today is the first day of classes at Plymouth State University. The lead up to this new semester was full of meetings and presentations as we…
Creating a Digital Identity
Each year since 2011, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) has sponsored an Academic Technology Institute (ATI) in which 10 faculty from each of the 4 institutions in the system…
Beyond the Skills Gap Revisited
I wrote a couple of months ago about reading the book Beyond the Skills Gap with my small book club. We just getting ready to meet to talk about the…
Lots of Activity
In the three weeks since my last post, there has been a flurry of activity on campus regarding the integrated clusters and possible changes to many aspects of the way…
Beyond the Skills Gap
I first learned of Beyond the Skills Gap in an October, 2016 article in Inside Higher Ed. In January, my small book club (Ann McClellan, Pat Cantor, and I) decided…
PSU and the National GE Conversation
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently attended the American Association of Colleges and Universities' 2017 General Education and Assessment Conference. Nearly every session I attended was directly…
AAC&U General Education Conference
Annette Holba, Annemarie Conlon, Sandra Van Gundy, Hilary Swank, and I attended the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) General Education Conference in Phoenix last week. The AAC&U is…
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