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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I’m sure you all know, there has been an ongoing effort to change the core curriculum on campus, particularly with respect to lowering the number of required credits and offering new options for students within some of the disciplines.
Furthermore, the English department has opened the possibility for faculty in disciplines across campus to teaching the second required writing course. And, there is a proposal for a freshmen seminar whose goal is to on learning communities for first-year
students.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today, the core curriculum committee voted to recommend that the Faculty Council bring this new 44-credit hour core curriculum to a vote by the Full Faculty at the next full faculty meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Monday, the Faculty Council will vote on this. On Tuesday, there will be a full faculty meeting at which the new core curriculum will be (once again) presented and then brought forward for vote.
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those of you in undergraduate programs in CEIT – and particularly for those of you in accredited programs – I STRONGLY URGE you to attend the full faculty meeting on Tuesday, April 21 at 12:30 in Kahn (I believe it is 212) to help ensure
that this new core is approved by the full faculty.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Furthermore, it would be really very nice I you were to attend to support this new core curriculum regardless of whether your program has undergraduate majors or not. This is extremely important both for our current undergraduate programs
and for any new programs we develop. Furthermore, especially for the undergraduate teacher education programs, this is extremely important as the university moves toward the goal of 120-credit degrees (which is in the strategic plan).
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do understand that not every faculty member teaches on Tuesdays, but there is a very real urgency for this change.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, and I hope to see you there. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">**<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michele M. Dornisch, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LIU Post<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">516-299-3676<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The perfect is the enemy of the good.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The plural of anecdote is not data.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Knowledge is power. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
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