Present: Faculty—Bruce, Dohse, Friedenberg, Konz, Krumpe, McKnight, Nelms, Rizzo, Ruiz, White-Carter, Katz; Alumni—Perry; Student—Spencer; Visiting—Pat McClellan

1. Forums—We briefly discussed the upcoming Forum. Arrangements are set for wine and food, for the smart cart and projection screen, and the first emails have been sent out. We will all work to encourage our departmental colleagues to attend if they possibly can. We are looking for a good turnout. Katz will make some calls to invite faculty and staff personally to attend the forum. Dr Padilla will make some brief opening remarks and then we’ll discuss the Summary Analysis of the Listening Project and the Institutional Principles for Design of the new program.
2. Principles for Design—GERTF as a whole reviewed the document once more. There was general agreement that the additions of the History and Purpose sections were useful. There was considerable discussion of the first principles in the section on Student Experience, especially with regard to the wording. Also, there was agreement that the statement on diversity needed rewording so as not to alienate the supporters of diversity across the curriculum, who might not want so narrow a principle. It was acknowledged, however, that we don’t want a weak principle statement here. Dr Rizzo said she would work on a revision and would send it to Katz via email for distribution to the GERTF. Specific revision suggestions for wording were adopted for a few of the principle statements and members agreed to continue their work on the document via email. It was agreed that the document was improved because of the revisions and that if we could finish it via email, we would not need to meet next week.