Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Core Curriculum requirement update, April 12, 2013 is attached, below.

<=== Faculty Core Curriculum Component Area Option committee active in Spring term, 2013.   Click "Component Area Option"

<=== Course Submission & Assessment Plan templates (12/12)

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board material is linked below and the April 2013 attchment contains updates.  

Conference presentations may be of interest.  Many 2-year institutions are planning to use the LEAP rubrics (Liberal Education and America's Promise).

In the NEXT STEPS chart to the right, yellow highlights indicate where we are in this project as of mid-December 2012.  P indicates that the item has been postponed but is still an agenda item.

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Updating the Texas Core Curriculum

In November 2013 we will need to submit our core curriculum for review and approval under the new rules.  THECB will use the new core structure to evaluate courses we want included in the core effective in Fall 2014. This is a zero base process:  courses currently approved for the institution for core are not grandfathered.

The attached documents illustrate the requirement and provide models for revising master syllabi.  Syllabus revision is only one part of the process.  The college may add or subtract courses that it wants to submit as its new core curriculum.  Different courses and departments may be involved if desired.

We will hold faculty workshops to clarify the process and requirements.
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The Coordinating Board is continuing to develop implementation specifics to its website at this time. See, for example, these Core Curriculum Assessment Guidelines and the Starlink webinar explaining the basis for the new core objectives and framework.