1. Focus group efforts—We will begin planning a series of focus groups for interested faculty and staff, on topics including but not limited to Diversity, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Freshman and Senior Seminars.

2. Process and deadlines for this spring—We will try to have models before the GERTF as a whole before Spring Break, if possible sometime in February. A model to the faculty, then, might be possible as early as mid-March. It would be ideal if we could get it to the faculty, for a first look, before Spring Break, but this may not be realistic. After the first draft of the proposal has been finished, and the faculty has had a chance to review and critique it, we may be able to begin drafting charges. As we work on the model this semester, we will continue work on descriptions of what constitutes General Education courses and what specific requirements there should be in the curriculum.

3. Implementation issues—We will need to be mindful of considering implementation issues and problems arising out of our design effort. Still, we should not allow technical concerns to drive the curricular design.

4. Assessment design—As we move through the process of creating a structure for the curriculum, we will be discussing assessment possibilities.

5. Resource development—We should begin thinking in terms of grant opportunities aimed at faculty development particularly. It is important to recognize that the greatest opportunity for larger scale resource development is at the level of program architecture. There should be other opportunities for resource development at the level of individual classes (e.g., freshman seminars, linkages that may be a part of the design.

6. Discussion of models—The design team went on to discuss program architecture, focusing on ways of accommodating the Institutional Principles through design elements. We discussed Foreign Language, Freshman and Senior Seminars, and a Humanities requirement.