General Education / Core Curriculum Committee Function

1. Identify strategies for assessing the effectiveness of the General Education Core
   and the Core Curriculum.
2. Design and implement an assessment program for the General Education Core
   and the Core Curriculum.
3. Assess the effectiveness of the General Education core and the Core Curriculum
   in achieving student learning outcomes.
4. Review general education and core curriculum courses to ensure compliance
   with effectiveness measures.
5. Serve as a resource to Department Chairs in conducting on-going assessments
   of courses and programs.
6. Regularly analyze assessment results and report to the college community.
7. Make recommendations regarding how assessment results can be used to
   improve the curriculum.
8. Provide annual reports to the Curriculum and Programs Committee and make recommendations on the effectiveness of courses in meeting general learning
   outcomes, and student transfer needs.

Recommendations: Changes to Core Curriculum are forwarded to the Curriculum and Programs Committee.

General Education Task Force Function

1. Review and provide feedback regarding ACC’s progress on meeting General Education/Core Curriculum standards as defined by the Coordinating Board and
   the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
2. Develop general education competencies with broad-based support.
3. Develop and implement methods for assessing general education competencies
   within and across departments.
4. Support and promote cross-curricular relationships involving general education competencies
5. Identify ways in which assessment of General Education competencies ties into
   the larger missions and objectives of the college.
6. Identify methods for rewarding best assessment practices at ACC.
   
   Recommendations: Forwarded to the Achieving Excellence Committee and
   the General Education/Core Curriculum Committee

Student Learning Outcomes Subcommittee Function

1. Review and give feedback for improving student learning outcomes for courses
   and programs at ACC.
2. Develop rubrics for reviewing academic department assessment plans.
3. Review academic department assessment plans and give feedback about these
   plans to the departments.
4. Identify methods for improving the assessment of program level student learning outcomes processes.
5. Identify methods for rewarding best assessment practices at ACC.

Recommendations: Forwarded to the Institutional Effectiveness Committee
and the General Education/Core Curriculum Committee

Discipline Assessment Cycle Subcommittee Function

1. Review and provide feedback to disciplines and departments for improving the assessment of General Education competencies and the student learning
   outcomes for their programs; and
2. Review and provide feedback to disciplines and departments regarding their
   performance snapshot analyses; and
3. Review and provide feedback to disciplines and departments regarding the
   improvement plans resulting from analyses of assessment data; and
4. Review and provide feedback to appropriate entities for improving the
   documentation of student learning outcomes for courses and programs; and
5. Develop rubrics for reviewing discipline and program assessment plans; and
6. Provide feedback and recommendations to the Institutional Effectiveness
   Committee and the General Education/Core Curriculum Committee regarding
   assessment data, assessment processes, and their documentation.
   
   Recommendations: Forwarded to the Institutional Effectiveness Committee
   and the General Education/Core Curriculum Committee

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