submitted by engerj@augsburg.edu
Augsburg faculty,
I hope you all had a restful summer and are geared up for the fall semester! It’ll be an exciting year as we work to implement a number of university-wide initiatives, including our transition to the new General Education curriculum.
As Stacy Freiheit, General Education Director, communicated in a series of updates through A-mail, a subcommittee of AAC began this work over the summer, resulting in a large batch proposal to migrate the 475 courses that currently have gen ed implications to the new curriculum. The batch proposal will go to AAC for discussion and review during our first meeting on September 9th and will be the main focus of that meeting.
As a result of the general education changes as well as the change to the new 5-school structure, AAC will also need to update a number of forms and consider how to make the submission process and requirements for new proposals as clear and efficient as possible. There is also a large volume of proposals that need to be considered relating to the upcoming HLC visit.
As a result, we are asking that folks hold off on submitting new proposals to AAC until these forms and processes can be discussed and developed by the whole committee. Our goal is to have this work essentially completed by our second meeting (September 23rd) so we can then begin accepting proposals relating to the new curriculum by our third meeting on October 7th.
Until then, we ask for your patience as we try our best to set up procedures that will hopefully make the experience as painless as possible. We will provide updates as we progress through our first couple meetings, and notify faculty when new proposals can be submitted. Any questions can be emailed to aac-proposals@augsburg.edu.
Thank you,
The Academic Affairs Committee