Faculty Governance

• General Education Advisory Committee (GEAC)

  • Reports to the Curriculum and Research Committee

    The General Education Advisory Committee receives and solicits courses and reviews curricular proposals designed to satisfy General Education (GE), American Institutions (AI) graduation requirement, and Graduation Writing Assessment Requirements (GWAR) from all colleges and departments of the University; provides support to departments seeking to develop GE, AI, or GWAR courses; recommends approval of new curricular proposals for purposes of GE, AI, and GWAR; reviews the GE portion of materials submitted in the program planning process; and, evaluates curricula according to the current GE Guidelines. The GEAC evaluates modifications requested by degree programs in accordance with the current Guidelines.

    Current General Education Advisory Committee Members

• General Education Assessment Task Force (2019)

  • In Fall 2018, a task force was appointed to follow up on the recommendations of the external GE review and the 2017 GE self-study, which included a student survey. The task force suggested SJSU create meaningful GE program-level outcomes and assess GE as an integral program as opposed to assessing individual courses. 

    GE Assessment Task Force Final Recommendations (2019)

• General Education Program Review (2017)

  • Action Plan (2018)
    Program Review (2017)

• 2022 GE Guidelines Development

  • Starting in Fall 2019, and over the next two and a half years, more than 500 members of the SJSU community (faculty, staff, students, and administrators) participated in forums, workshops, and committee meetings to create guidelines that represent SJSU’s mission and goals and also comply with Title 5 and CSU requirements. The revised guidelines include a new set of GE Goals; updated Program Learning Outcomes, Area Learning Outcomes, and content requirements; mapping of GE ALOs to GE PLOs for assessment; and additional clarity on diversity goals and content.  The revised GE Guidelines were passed by the Academic Senate in May 2022.

    2022 GE Guidelines [pdf]

Spring 2024 GE Workshops

Please join us to learn about new GE Program Learning Outcome assessment processes and results, and the new GE Guidelines for our campus. Register for a GE Workshop below.

Implementation of 2022 GE Guidelines

While faculty should become familiar with the 2022 GE Guidelines and begin the process of revising course content and assignments as soon as possible, instructors may not have time to make all of the modifications they have planned in Fall 2022. The goal is to have all courses revised by the Spring 2023 semester. According to a schedule found on the GE guideline webpage, course syllabi will be reviewed for alignment with the 2022 GE Guidelines. The Director of General Education will be organizing opportunities for faculty to engage in conversations around GE to support sharing of best practices and model assignments.