{"id":148,"date":"2026-02-20T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/gened\/?p=148"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:30:26","slug":"proposal-for-institutional-learning-program-structure-and-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/gened\/2026\/02\/20\/proposal-for-institutional-learning-program-structure-and-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal for Institutional Learning Program Structure and Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This is the text of a proposal brought to the Bellevue College CAC in February of 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This proposal is to approve a new governance structure for the administration of Institutional Learning at Bellevue College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In coordination with the Office of Academic Affairs, former members of FACT launched preliminary discussions with administrators and faculty to reform Institutional Learning (formerly General Education) in Winter Quarter2023. This effort was initiated to address standing accreditation recommendations in a way that would make Institutional Learning meaningful for students, assessable, and improvable. That spring, a team of five faculty and administrators from FACT(Rebecca Cory, Zach Morgan, Russ Payne, Alice Jenkins and Anthony Tessandori) participated in an AAC&amp;U Institute on General Education and Assessment where they outlined a new program of Institutional Learning. In the Fall of 2023, this plan, dubbed the TILTed model of Institutional Learning, was presented to faculty. In coordination with administration, our legacy program of General Education was retired at that time and FACT was replaced by and ILO working group. In Spring Quarter 2024, faculty voted to adopt six new ILOs to replace the 18 Gen Ed outcomes of the legacy program. Working groups per ILO were established. Over the course of 2024-25, ILO working groups worked from faculty input concerning the KSA (knowledge, skills and abilities) faculty associate with the six new ILOs to formulate articulations of the new ILOs (short explanations of the each ILO\u2019s content), ILO definitions, and rubrics for assessment. The first two of these, for Communications and Critical Thinking are currently submitted to the CAC for approval in separate proposals. Other ILOs remain in process. These first two ILOs were piloted in several courses during Fall Quarter 2026. Review and reflection on the process and data collected will happen this quarter (Winter, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Proposal<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>FACT has been disbanded for 2 years. In its place we propose to form ILO committees per ILO which will be responsible for a broader range of programmatic functions per ILO than merely facilitating assessment. Operating under the auspices of the CAC, ILO committees will be responsible for the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Supporting programs in adopting ILOs for their courses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitating faculty and curriculum development as needed in coordination with the Faculty Commons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vetting courses for adopting ILO resulting in recommendations for certification of courses to the CAC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitating assessment of ILOs and faculty reflection on the process, student learning, curricular and pedagogical improvements etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While ILOs are to be taught as infused outcomes across campus, the ILO committees are intended to fulfill a fuller range of normal programmatic functions than just assessment. In our legacy program of General Education the absence of this coordinated functionality resulted in meaningless assessment data which undermined our ability to address accreditation recommendations asking that assessment data be used to improve instruction in ILOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ILO committees are to be constituted by faculty members, some with area expertise, and administrative partners from the Office of Academic Affairs to be determined (since we are unsure who will ultimately fulfill Rebecca Cory\u2019s former role). Eventually ILO committees may consist of as few as three faculty members but more, perhaps five or seven per ILO will be needed as we work on initial course adoption of ILOs. Simply grandfathering in courses that formerly claimed an ILO will not serve students or satisfaction of accreditation expectations since we have lacked any ongoing practice of faculty collaboration and coordination around ILO instruction under the legacy program. Faculty membership on ILO committees is ultimately to be elected by faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CAC will no longer be charged with deliberating over and approving the claiming of Gen Ed outcomes on a per proposal basis. This role will be taken over by ILO committees which are dedicated to administration of their specific ILOs. The CAC should be in a position to approve ILO adoption in batches or as a matter of housekeeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to fielding questions about this proposal. With the permission of the CAC, I will document this proposal and our discussion on our <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/gened\/sample-page\/\">Institutional Learning Blog<\/a> where all of the working documents for this effort are archived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the text of a proposal brought to the Bellevue College CAC in February of 2026 This proposal is to approve a new governance structure for the administration of Institutional Learning at Bellevue College. 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