Washington State University’s General Education Visioning Committee was created in 2008 with representatives from a dozen campus departments. The Provost’s Office charged the committee to provide “a vision and strategy” for General Education within a year.
Prior to this committee, WSU’s model of General Education was a compromise model that embodied strengths of different models current in the 1980s, derived from an intensive study of general education models of the time. Based on the GEVC’s conclusions, in 2011 the University approved a new UCORE (University Common Requirements) program. Richard Law was an administrator of the General Education Program starting in 1990, as well as a professor of English until he retired.
Files from the WSU General Education department from 1986-2009. Files include budgets, committee notes, binder reports, proposals, course criteria files, course requirements, and final paper requirements.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Boxes are mostly unorganized but are in subject files. Boxes 1, 2, and 5 contain administrative files, correspondence, and memoranda related to the General Education Committee (GEC) and Richard Law's time as an administrator of the program. Boxes 3 and 6 contains documents related to the Co-Teaching Grant from 1999-2004, as well as other grants related to the GEC. Boxes 7 and 8 contain material related to teaching, fundraising, and academic integrity. Box 9 contains information related to the Weyerhauser project.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University General Education (Dick Law) Papers, 1986-2009 (UA2009-09)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Richard "Dick" Law on June 25, 2009 and retained as UA2009-09.
(MASC STAFF USE) Came with 21 boxes of books of which went to the Holland Library proper. One additional box received 2009-07-02 and added to end. Accessioned in original order, with two boxes combined. Additional items received 2009-06-29 added to the end of one box; see note in the front of those two boxes. Most in original boxes- see content notes on outside of boxes. Needs further appraisal - article files were purged in accessioning, but nothing more was done.
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