ACE Holds Kick-Off Event and IACE is Formed

Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Barbara Couture welcomed the new faculty team charged with the responsibility of implementation of the University's new general education program at a Kick-off Event on Tuesday, March 4 in the Eisentrager/Howard Gallery. Deans of each of the undergraduate colleges named members to two Achievement-Centered Education (ACE) committees: the Interim ACE Committee and Course Facilitators.

The Interim ACE committee includes a member from each undergraduate college. This group of leaders will review and certify the initial set of ACE courses for implementation for fall 2009. Members include: Tiffany Heng-Moss, Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources; Kathy Ankerson, Architecture; Greg Snow, Arts & Sciences; Scott Fuess, Business Administration; Linda Young, Education & Human Sciences; John Ballard, Engineering; Peter Lefferts, Fine & Performing Arts; FraukeHachtmann, Journalism& Mass Communications. Larry Walklin, chair of the University Curriculum Committee, and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, are ex-officio members.

Course Facilitators will assist faculty in their constituent units who are proposing courses for ACE certification. They will make sure that units are appropriately represented in the set of courses and assist faculty as they retool or create new courses for submission for ACE certification. Course Facilitators are: Lloyd Bell, Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources; Betsy Gabb, Architecture; Dan Leger, social sciences; John Osterman, sciences; Ann Tschetter, humanities; all from Arts & Sciences; Donna Dudney, Business Administration; Ali Moeller, Education & Human Sciences; Michael Riley, Engineering; Robert Fought, Fine & Performing Arts; Trudy Burge, Journalism & Mass Communications.