General Education

• 2007-08 General Education Committee site
• 2008-09 General Education Committee report
• Final General Education Plan forwarded to University Council by the Academic Affairs Committee and approved by University Council on May 5, 2009.

ONU General Education Learning Outcome Rubrics

Each rubric was developed by a team of talented ONU faculty members with relevant subject expertise. All undergraduate colleges were represented on each team. 

A "core committee" - composed of a subset of the general education implementation committee selected so that each undergraduate college was represented - served as members of every rubric development team. This core group, because of their familiarity with all of the rubrics, contributed to consistency of language, content and style across the rubrics. These individuals, Rob Kleine, John Paul Kanwit, Shane Martin, Aiyaswami Prasad and David Sawyers, spent considerable time and energy in the rubric development process. Major direction was provided by Rob Kleine.

EduMetry facilitated the rubric development process.

These rubrics provide a foundation on which to further develop ONU's general-education program. In 2008 ONU successfully adopted a set of learning outcomes for general education. In 2009 the faculty created an administrative infrastructure, in the form of the University General Education Committee, to oversee general education on the ONU campus. These rubrics afford a means for assessing program effectiveness at achieving our adopted general-education learning outcomes. It is important to reinforce that the rubrics are not cast in stone. The University General Education Committee, in collaboration with the University Assessment Committee, are charged with periodic review of the rubrics in light of assessment data and the recommendation of changes to the rubrics as appropriate.

Listed below please find the rubric for each general-education learning outcome; each of the seven rubrics addresses one learning outcome and the appropriate rubric.  Each rubric has these key elements:

• The "short form" of the learning outcome (e.g., informed and ethical responses to personal, civic and global needs).
• The "sentence form" of the learning outcome (e.g., Students display an understanding of personal, civic and global needs; identify underlying ethical issues in specific situations; and make informed, ethical responses to those needs.) developed by the rubric-development team to facilitate development of the rubric.
• The rubric itself. Some rubrics, such as the rubric for Effective Communication, contain multiple distinct dimensions (i.e., Written Communication, Oral Communication, Visual Communication) that may be used individually, depending on the application context.