Structures & People
University Student Leadership Awards Committee Charge
Familiarize yourselves with national scholarship, trends, models, and best practices with respect to general education. My office will provide funding for your professional development in this area. Develop a clear problem statement regarding general education at UW-Green Bay. This clear identification of and agreement as to the definition of "the problem" is a necessary step before we move forward toward identifying solutions or proposals. Without a shared agreement as to "the problem," we talk past each other and have no shared basis on which to evaluate options or proposals. Review our current general education program and offer recommendations for reform. Your recommendations should be feasible, informed by evidence, and connected to current scholarship and thinking on general education. Keep the campus community and governance groups informed of your deliberations and discussions throughout the process. Share issues and key decision points throughout the process so that each phase of your work does not "slide back to Square One." Finally, do not rush to a "solution." Complex problems require significant study, thought, debate, and attention to evidence. They may require experimentation and evaluation. This work will likely take some years, well beyond the time frame associated with our usual committee assignments. Your membership on the Task Force will be expected to continue for up to 5 years in order to enable you to successfully complete this assignment.