Dear Faculty, Staff and Students,
Please join us for the first Campus Conversation of the semester taking place on Thursday, September 12th from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in the Illinois Rooms, Student Center East.The title of this conversation is What’s Going on and Why? General Education at UIC: Is it Time for a Change?
This year we will begin a process to review the general education program at UIC. A task force consisting of 10 faculty members met throughout the spring semester to brainstorm ideas about new ways to think about the general education program at UIC. You can view the task force’s final report on my website linked here. This document is not a proposal but rather a narrative of their discussions, intended only to start the discussion.
This discussion about general education will continue with the first Campus Conversation next week, which will feature a panel discussion about the report by members of the task force with time for audience Q&A.
The panel will include:
- John Coumbe-Lilley
- Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition
- College of Applied Health Sciences
- Lisa Freeman
- Head and Professor, Department of English
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Hannah Higgins
- Professor, School of Art and Art History
- College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
- Tony Laden
- Professor, Department of Philosophy
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Agustina Laurito
- Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration
- College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
- Serdar Ogut
- Professor, Department of Physics
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Dale Reed
- Clinical Professor, Department of Computer Science
- College of Engineering
- Besma Smida
- Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- College of Engineering
- Michael Thomas
- Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- College of Education
This conversation will also be streamed live on UIC’s YouTube channel.
I hope you will join me and your fellow students, faculty and staff for this Campus Conversation.
Sincerely,
Susan Poser
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
