CRC Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 30, 2024
Room D112
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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Present: Steve Amarnick, Greg Bruno, Matthew Gartner, Rachel Ihara, Maxine Krenzel, Laura Nadel, Megan O’Neill, Hope Parisi, Daniel Perrone, Sara Rutkowski, Carl Schlachte, Emily Schnee, Tisha Ulmer, Joshua Wright
The meeting consisted of presentations from subgroups followed by opportunities for the larger group to weigh in and give feedback.
Group 1 (Maxine, Laura, Rachel, Megan): Developing Resources for Comp II aligned with the revised CLOs
Maxine shared a document collecting snapshots of sample assignments with their associated CLOs, to be housed on the composition website. This document may be divided into several separate documents once we have more samples across different assignment types. One suggestion was to replace full names of faculty contributors with the first name and last initial to protect privacy.
Group 2 (Emily, Steve, Matthew, Hope): Faculty responses to AI
Emily discussed how students’ use of AI affects faculty members emotionally; Steve described using AI in class as part of proof-reading and suggested that faculty give more time to students genering writing on paper in class; Hope shared classroom practices emphasizing the value of student writing over AI generated text in terms of voice, style, investment, and focus on an issue; Matthew offered the following premise and questions.
Premise: we are entering a world where we will never know whether and to what extent any given sentence is influenced by AI
- At what point does it become professionally irresponsible for us not to be encouraging students to use AI writing tools?
- To what extent is the university already implicitly encouraging students to use AI?
- To what extent can asynchronous classes be considered academically valid?
- Where does education go from here?
Group 3 (Carl, Sara, Tisha, Daniel): ALP reconsidered
Carl shared slides of the group’s work, including an updated flow chart of how students get placed into ALP, a list of resources, a list of common issues/concerns, and suggestions for future professional development and faculty resources to improve ALP pedagogy.
The meeting ended with Greg noting that he would be asking for input on the plan for next year’s CRC and with the group giving a card and gift to Rachel, who is stepping down as co-coordinator. (Thanks, everyone!)
