Richard Ulibarri and Sandra Powell indicated that most of the funding from the Diversity Task Force on Teaching and Learning has been for improving existing courses. One or two new courses have been funded for development. The question of what should be funded was discussed. Sometimes seed money is beneficial to help start new course development. The Curriculum and General Education Committee is receiving a huge proliferation of workshops.
Workshops go under a very limited review.
Some of the workshops are turning in to multi-week courses. The Executive Committee discussed the possibility of including a signature line indicating that the workshop has been reviewed by the department and given approval. The chair of the Curriculum and General Education Committee signs off on the experimental course. Jim Wilson will make some modifications to the curriculum forms and meet with Gene Bozniak, Sandra Powell, Gary Godfrey, and John Sillito to discuss changes to the curriculum forms. Gary Godfrey felt it would be helpful for the RSPG Committee to see that course enhancement and new course development has been approved by departments and college curriculum committees.