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Committee on General Education (COGE)

The Committee on General Education (COGE) is the steering committee for the General Education curriculum and is guided by the Aims of General Education and the Core Competencies. It has responsibility for oversight and assessment of the General Education curriculum, including:

  • consideration of issues that affect the substance of the General Education curriculum, including reviewing and making recommendations on any matters that affect Learning & Inquiry (L&I) course guidelines or the General Education curriculum as a whole.
  • administration of existing policy within the General Education curriculum. These matters include (but are not limited to) the development, and review of core L&I course sections, Values, Richnesses, and other components of the General Education curriculum; and consideration of requests for exceptions within the program.
  • systematic and on-going assessment of individual L&I courses, Core Competencies, and the General Education curriculum as a whole.
  • planning for faculty development as it relates to the General Education curriculum.
  • initiation of proposals for programmatic and/or curricular changes to the General Education curriculum, which are forwarded to and acted upon by the Academic Program Council.

COGE consists of ten members who balance regular assessment of the Core Competencies while providing oversight of individual component parts of the General Education program seeking to ensure consistency, coherence, and quality.  Membership consists of coordinators teaching the four core L&I courses, quantitative literacy, and two members overseeing Values and Richnesses. In addition, COGE includes a student, Writing Program Administrator, and the Associate Provost. 

The Associate Provost serves as a voting member of the Academic Program Council (APC), and functions as a liaison between COGE and APC. Coordinators are appointed by the Associate Provost in collaboration with APC. Terms will generally be three years, but may range from two to five years. All members have voice and vote.