Transition To Critical Competency General Education Requirement
Our campus is transitioning from the Developmental Content (DevC) model to the Critical Competency (CC) model for our General Education Requirement (GER). The General Education Committee is establishing a course recertification process tied to implementing the Critical Competency model approved by the Faculty Senate in May 2021. Over the next two years, the General Education Committee will recertify each competency. Subsequently, the GE Committee will recertify each competency every five years.
Our committee is asking faculty for CC 7 (PSR 1 and IP 1 combined) and CC 8 (PSR 2 and IP 2 combined) courses to begin the transition. A shortened application process is underway for committee members to review these courses, which will be available in fall 2023.
For CC 7: Lack of response by January 6, 2023, is considered no action, and PSR 1 and IP 1 courses will not roll from their respective categories to the new model.
For CC 8: Lack of response by February 10, 2023, is considered no action, and PSR 2 and IP 2 courses will not roll from their respective categories to the new model.
Faculty may submit new course applications to our General Education Committee for any CC 7 or CC 8 courses that miss response deadlines for the shortened application process.
New-category requests need to go through Faculty Senate. The category names for CC 7 and CC 8 are changing because the model combined PSR and IP into one category. However, each CC 7 and CC 8 criteria are the same as their respective PSRs and IPs combined.
- Suppose a course only belongs to IP, and faculty apply for CC 7 or CC 8 inclusion; that constitutes a new-category application. After the GE Committee approves, the chair will notify the faculty member and send a Tracking Form to the Faculty Senate Secretary for Faculty Senate consideration. The chair also recommends sending a copy of the Tracking Form to the Transfer Specialist in the Registrar’s Office.
- Likewise, suppose a course only belongs to PSR, and faculty apply for CC 7 or CC 8; that constitutes a new-category application.
- Suppose a course is both PSR and IP, and faculty apply for CC 7 or CC 8 inclusion; that constitutes a same-category application. After the GE Committee approves, the chair will notify the faculty member and send a Tracking Form to the Transfer Specialist in the Registrar’s Office, bypassing Faculty Senate consideration.
The Registrar’s Office will roll the remaining DevC courses to the 2023 – 2024 catalog as follows:
- CCS 1 → CC 1
- CCS 2 → CC 2
- CCS 3 → CC 3
- CCS 4 → CC 4
- CCS 5 → CC 5
- CCS 6 → CC 6
- PSR 3 → CC 9
After our CC 7 and CC 8 review, the General Education Committee will review two competencies per semester to achieve initial course recertification in two years. Relevant faculty will reapply with new course applications for our committee to review these remaining competencies.
Our campus will run two concurrent GE programs for the next six years, beginning fall of 2023. Faculty may submit new course applications for CC designations at any time. Students follow their catalog year’s Academic Requirement Report to complete their GER, and students can change catalog years if they prefer the CC model over the DevC model.
