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Meeting Minutes

September 30, 2005

Announcement: The Provost has committed money to help cover the cost of an external speaker in the spring. We are pursuing the possibility of bringing in Dr. Carol Geary Schneider, President of AAC&U.

There have been a couple of postings made to the GETF website blog. Please look at those. Task force members may participate and generate questions on the blog.

Focus group transcriptions will be posted on the website as they come in.

There was a motion to make the minutes public. This passed unanimously. Minutes will be posted on the GETF website. The meeting calendar will also be posted.

Transcriptions of the focus groups will be put on the GETF members’ Web CT.

The meeting calendar was distributed. October and November slots are filled. We still want to invite some people to discuss computer literacy. Don Amoroso, Steve Breiner, Brian Brown, and Tom van Gilder were suggested. Allan Utter will be invited to talk about Undergraduate Research. Watauga College, Honors, and various interdisciplinary programs (SD, App. Studies) could be invited to discuss integrative learning.

The goal is to submit recommendations after each of these presentations. These will be collected and discussed in the spring, perhaps in working subgroups.

It was suggested that it would be useful to consider accreditation issues and the Chair will contact Holly Hirst about this.

It was suggested that we should study Watauga College; they have spent 30 years developing the interdisciplinary education model. It also is suggested that we should look at some departments with Capstones or Honors programs.

We taped last week’s debriefing session and we’re taping this week’s debriefing session as well. They will be the first tapes that our graduate assistant, Andy Hill, will transcribe. They synthesize, in a succinct form, what we’ve found. Each focus group moderator should have about a ten minute summary to present.

Following this debriefing, we will generate some conclusions about the results of th focus groups. What patterns are we seeing? What haven’t we heard? What kinds of great ideas were suggested?

Focus group reports were given by moderators/note takers for 7 groups conducted this week. These reports will be transcribed at a later time.