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• 152 Faculty

• 953 Students

• 59 Staff

Students should receive formative feedback on their portfolio submissions

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Truman should offer one-credit hour seminars for students who want help assembling and reflecting

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How many one-hour portfolio seminars should we require?

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Truman should adopt a common framework for critical thinking for use in the first-year experience

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Truman should do more to make reflection and deliberation a part of our liberal arts culture.

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Truman should institute a first-year writing-enhanced interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary

seminar.

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Students should be able to use formal speaking in the first-year seminar to demonstrate proficiency in

the essential skill of speech.

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To increase coherence and synergy of our curriculum, Truman should adopt a campus

themes or themes.

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Truman should require all students to complete at least one experiential learning component.

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Truman should continue to require all students to demonstrate elementary proficiency in a foreign

language.

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Truman should require all students to demonstrate intermediate proficiency in a foreign language.

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Truman should allow double counting so students could use courses in the major to satisfy LSP

requirements.

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I support the formation of a faculty committee to review the scholarship renewal process …

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I support the formation of a faculty committee to evaluate grading practices …

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Truman should allow satisfaction of degree requirements by demonstration of learning outcomes using methods such

as testing or portfolio submissions.

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Truman should continue to require all students to demonstrate proficiency in the mathematics

essential skill.

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Truman should maintain the current essential skills statistics requirement.

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Truman should maintain the current health and wellness essential skill requirement.

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Truman should institute a creative expression requirement that could be satisfied by a portfolio

submission including a reflective statement.

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Truman should maintain the current writing enhanced requirement.

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Truman should reduce the number of required hours for BA and BS degrees from 124 to 120.

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Truman should continue to offer the BA and BS degree but should have a more principled and

substantial distinction between the two degrees.

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Disciplines should only be allowed to offer a BA or a BS degree though majors could have more than

one “track” for their chosen degree.

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Truman should discontinue offering the BS degree and allow majors to have more than one “track” for

the BA degree.

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Truman should continue to require students concurrently earning a BA and a BS degree to

earn an additional 12 hours.

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Truman should investigate moving to a 4-1-4 calendar.

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Truman should investigate alternate scheduling of classes.

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The foundational concept of the LSP should be modes of inquiry.

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The current LSP adequately emphasizes “approaches to thinking by which people seek or

increase knowledge in various disciplines”.

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The current LSP is too large.

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We should maintain the current JINS requirement.

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The “Life Science” and “Physical Science” modes should be combined into a single “Science” mode,

requiring a single course.

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The “Fine Arts” and “Literature” modes should be combined into a single “Aesthetics” mode,

requiring a single course.

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Students should be required to complete proposed 6 modes.

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Rankings for the Current Liberal Studies Program.

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Rankings for the Distribution: A Minor Change Model

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Rankings for Distributional: Grammars model.

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Ranking for Thematic Clusters model.

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Ranking for Double-FINS model.

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Rankings for Portfolio model.

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Model Comparisons--Faculty

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Truman should institute an “International Perspectives” requirement exposing students to

the world beyond our borders.

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Truman should institute a “National Diversity” requirement that focuses on different groups within

our national boundaries.

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Faculty – Head to Head Model Comparisons

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