The General Education Committee promotes high quality standards in the general education curriculum to ensure student success for both A.A.S. and transfer degrees. Activities of the group include, but are not limited to, reviewing general education assessment data, review and evaluate revisions to criteria, descriptions, and outcomes in general education categories and makes recommendations to the curriculum committee, reviews and changes to courses listed on the general education lists for optimum transferability, and reviews changes to a general education component of any degree offered at YC, and assist in the planning and facilitating of Assessment Day or Progression Day. Click to learn what the committee does.
Sponsor
Dr. Doug Berry
Provost
928-717-7644
douglas.berry@yc.edu
- Oversees, reviews, and evaluates revisions to criteria, descriptions, and outcomes in all General Education categories at the College and makes recommendations to the Curriculum Committee.
- Reviews any changes to courses listed on General Education lists and send recommendations on to the Curriculum Committee.
- Reviews any changes to the General Education component of any degree offered at Yavapai College and make a recommendation to the Curriculum Committee.
- Assists in planning, organizing, and facilitating General Education Curriculum activities on Assessment Day.
Membership consists of faculty representatives from each of the state’s AGEC categories (First Year Composition, Math, Arts & Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Physical and Biological Sciences), as well as faculty representatives from occupational education divisions.
Our members also include representatives from Student Advising and the Office of Academic Instruction, as well as the Curriculum and SLOA Committee Chairs.
List of Members
| ARHU | Nicole Dean | |
| First Year Comp | Karen Palmer (Chair) | |
| Math | Mandy Atherton | |
| HEWE | Gillian Troxel | |
| COM/Languages | Curtis Kleinman | |
| SCEN | Becky Brulet | |
| SBS | Tara O'Neill | |
| Institutes of the Americas | Laura Cline | |
| CT | Steven Hoover | |
| Professional | Vacant | |
| Other Faculty | Curriculum Chair: Liz Peters SLOA Chair: Bambi Pish-Derr |
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| Student | Rameny Run | |
| Adjunct | Clayton Baumgartner | |
| Student Affairs | Tania Sheldahl | |
| Advising | Ashley Burkhardt | |
| Assessment | Sarah Southwick |
Meeting times: 3rd Fridays from 12:00-1:30pm & as needed.
For a current schedule of Gen Ed meetings and other events, please visit our Sharepoint page.
Please contact Karen Palmer if you would like to sit in on a General Education Meeting.
For more recent meeting agenda and minutes, please visit our Sharepoint page.
| August 20, 2021 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| September 17, 2021 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| October 15, 2021 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| November 19, 2021 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| January 21, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| February 18, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| April 15, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| August 19, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| September 16, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| October 21, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| November 18, 2022 | Agenda | Minutes | |
| January 20, 2023 | Agenda | Minutes |
Please click below reports. For more recent reports, please visit our Gen Ed Sharepoint Page.
Departments may submit new or revised courses for inclusion in the Gen Ed Curriculum. Faculty should work with the universities to ensure transfer of courses prior to submission.
The following are resources for faculty:
- Form for assessing ERG/IWR/GIH Criteria
- Arts and Humanities - pdf
- Social and Behavioral Sciences - pdf
- Physical and Biological Sciences - pdf
- First-year Composition - pdf
- Mathematics - pdf
- Communications - pdf
- ERG, IWR, and GIH - pdf
Additional Resources are available on our Sharepoint page.