Here is a summary of primary GE activities during 2010-11:
- Curriculum Committee releases 2009-10 GE Task Force report to Faculty, consisting of three proposed GE distribution models named Orion, Pegasus and Andromeda, with current GE distribution requirements as another option.
- Separate proposal to revise Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning requirements discussed.
- Based on feedback, a new distribution model, Capricorn, developed by Curriculum Committee; a different GE model, Sagittarius, developed and submitted by Interdisciplinary Learning Council programs.
- Proposal approved to separate Core (E&D) from GE reform discussion, given concurrent timing of E&D review.
- New model, Orion Prime, proposed, based on Orion but including recently proposed SQR requirements, resulting in a total of seven GE distribution models (including current), and a revised SQR model.
- Faculty ultimately approve Orion Prime.