GE Board Update
During fall 2023, the GE Board collaborated with the GE Implementation Task Force to respond to SUNY’s new directive that the GE Core Competencies of Critical Thinking and Reasoning and Information Literacy be assessed within the first 60 credits of students’ degree programs. The GE Implementation Task Force provided four options to the GE Board for assessing the Core Competencies. These options included course-based assessment, department-based assessment, campus-designed assessment, and commercial assessment.
Together, the GE Board and GE Implementation Task Force put forth a proposal for a campus-designed assessment using the Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Research Practices Survey to assess a cohort of sophomores in spring 2024. Following approval of the proposal by the Faculty Senate, the Office of Institutional Research set up an Information Literacy competency assessment in Qualtrics and distributed it to students in spring 2024.
In addition to assessing Information Literacy, an assessment of the Social Sciences Knowledge area is being conducted this spring. An assessment team for the Social Sciences was assembled by GE Board member Oksana Laleko. The group includes Felicia Hodges, Digital Media and Journalism; Andrew Horvitz, Sociology; Oksana Laleko, Linguistics; Stephen Pampinella, Political Science and International Relations; Gowri Parameswaran, Educational Studies; and Tim Vatovec, Geography and Environmental Studies.
The GE Board has set the following schedule for upcoming assessments over the next few academic years.
2024-2025
Natural Sciences & Scientific Reasoning: Communication (oral), US History & Civic Engagement, World Languages
2025-2026
The Arts, Humanities, World History and Global Awareness
2026-2027
Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice; Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning: Communication (written)
The GE Board is chaired by Jackie George, who joined the GE Board last semester. Below is a listing of the current GE Board members.
| Vacancy | The Arts |
| Nicola Wilson Clasby | Communication—Written and Oral |
| Vacancy | Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice |
| David Hobby | Mathematics (and Quantitative Reasoning) |
| Vacancy | Natural Sciences (and Scientific Reasoning) |
| Jackie George | Humanities |
| Oksana Laleko | Social Sciences |
| Greg Bynum | US History and Civic Engagement |
| Jeff Miller | World History and Global Awareness |
| Adolfo Béjar Lara | World Languages |
| Vacancy | Library |
| Lisa Jones | CC liaison, Admissions |
| Laurel Garrick Duhaney | Associate Provost of Strategic Planning & Assessment |
| Sabi Khan | Advising |
| Lucy Walker | Institutional Research |
| Mike Douglas | Institutional Research |
| Jennifer Palen | Records and Registration |