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CHARGES TO THE CORE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
FROM VICE PRESIDENTS OF INSTRUCTION
APRIL 2007
The Core Curriculum Committee is charged with reviewing the DCCCD Core Curriculum in order to recommend to the VP Council any changes and revisions to the Core it believes will operate in the best interest of our students. In doing this, the committee should keep in mind the question, “What must students know and be able to do upon the completion of the DCCCD Core Curriculum?” In addition, the VPs charge the committee with the following:
- Ensure its recommendations are in keeping with THECB rules and regulations pertaining to the Core Curriculum. These can be found at http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/Rules/tac3.cfm?Chapter_ID=4&Subchapter=B
- Ensure that its membership recognizes that individual members must take a broad role in reviewing the Core Curriculum and that they are not to assume they represent any one discipline within the curriculum;
- Develop a process that includes both broad input and feedback from the DCCCD community (students, faculty, and staff) prior to making its final recommendations. Such a process must incorporate recommendations from the many Academic Curriculum Committees;
- Consider the possibility of creating “capstone” experiences or courses within the Core in a manner that permits colleges to operate as independently accredited institutions in utilizing such;
- Ensure for every course recommended for inclusion within the Core that there be a stated commitment from its discipline related curriculum committee to measure student learning outcomes and utilize the resulting data for future improvements. In addition, such curriculum committees should be expected to engage in course redesign when needed;
- Investigate the Core Curricula of other Texas public institutions, as well as the data collected regarding our present Core, and benchmark best practices in creating its recommendations;
- Recommend a process by which the Core Curriculum can be revised once its recommendations are adopted;
- Develop a timeline by which its recommendations can be made to the VP Council by the close of Fall Semester 2008 with an implementation date of Fall 2009.
- Understand its recommendations are to be made to the Vice Presidents Council and that final approval of the Core is dependent upon approval by the VP Council, the Chancellor’s Cabinet, the Board of Trustees, and THECB.
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