Pima County Community College District Standard Practice Guide

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SPG Title: General Education Committee
SPG Number: SPG-3117/AB
Effective Date: 1/5/99
Approval Date:  1/5/99
Review Date(s):
Revision Date(s):
Sponsoring Unit/Department: AVC Educational Services
Regulation Title & No.:  General Education, RG-3117/A
Board Policy Title & No.:  General Education, BP-3117
Legal Reference: State Board R7-1-701 and R7-1-702
Cross Reference:  RG-3106/A, BP-3107

The General Education Committee is a committee, which recommends to the College Curriculum Council and reports to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Educational Services. The General Education Committee:

1. recommends the general education models for transfer degrees (the associate of arts and the associate of science) and for the occupational degrees (the associate of applied arts and the associate of applied science) to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Educational Services.

2. evaluates general education proposals based on criteria established for each category and based on the general education model.

The courses fulfilling general education categories are recommended for approval by the General Education Committee. Additions, deletions, and modifications to the course lists are recommended by the General Education Committee to the College Curriculum Council. The College Curriculum Council insures the integration of the general education courses into the College's curriculum. The College Curriculum Council recommends the additions, deletions, and modifications to the general education course lists to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Educational Services for approval.

The guidelines for submission of general education courses and the criteria established for the general education categories are defined in the Curriculum Procedures Manual.

Composition. The General Education Committee is composed of members who represent a variety of faculty constituents concerned with the quality, effectiveness, and integrity of the general education curriculum:

Members:

Dean of Instruction or Division Dean,
Administrative Co-chair
Faculty Member Co-chair
One at-large Dean of Student Development
One faculty representative from each CDAM/CDAC under the CAUP divisions
Three educational support faculty: one representing counseling and one representing library services and one representing curriculum services

Advisory Members:

Director of Occupational Curriculum
Director of Transfer Curriculum