The Policy & Practices Wing will focus efforts on ongoing policy issues that relate to and impact the general education program on our campus. For the current academic year, there are four policy areas that will be examined:

1. A subgroup of this year’s policy wing will focus on formalizing rules and procedures for Board meetings. Consistent with the practices of campus committees, General Education Board meetings operate under procedures drawn from Robert’s Rules of Order. However, these rules do not comment on all aspects of committee meetings. Expressing guidelines in writing will clarify occasional points of ambiguity and strengthen shared norms of decorum, collegiality, and governance on the Board. This subgroup will also consider the role of generative AI in the creation and review of (re)certification applications.    
2. A second subgroup of this year’s policy wing will focus on General Education writing and Advanced Composition. The goals of this subgroup include continuing to explore recommendations made by the Advanced Composition subgroups in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years as well as providing guidance on the “Substantial writing” requirement for the Humanities & the Arts category. Forming provisional guidelines that address these points will provide critical clarity to both sponsors and Board members.
3. The third subgroup of the policy wing will work toward better integration and assessment of general education learning outcomes. In previous years there was a separate campus committee focused on assessment of general education courses. That committee completed its work and came to an end with the close of the Spring 2025 semester. Having a subcommittee on the Board focused on assessment will ensure that all aspects of General Education are connected under the umbrella of the Board, fostering cross-pollination of ideas and more efficient collaboration.  
4. A fourth subgroup of the policy wing will discuss the application of existing General Education policy to different instructional formats and course modalities (e.g., online and/or asynchronous courses, large lectures, etc.), with a focus on optimal instructor-to-student ratios, course capacities, and related topics. This group will also consider how recommendations for General Education courses across modalities might also meaningfully differ across course categories (e.g., Advanced Composition versus different categories).