Diversity in the United States

Both proposed changes were approved by the faculty in April 2020 and implementation began in May 2020.

Proposed Changes to CASE DUS

As announced by Executive Dean Van Kooten, the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences are invited to vote on two proposed changes to the College's undergraduate curriculum related to the Diversity in the United States requirement. The voting period will be from April 15-22, 2020.

A virtual Town Hall was held on April 15. A recording of the presentation and discussion as well as the materials are provided below.

Proposed Change 1

Adding the CASE Diversity in the United States requirement to all College B.S. degrees

Proposed Change 2

Adopting a procedure by which CASE DUS learning outcomes are assessed

Background information

On April 16, 2019, the Bloomington Faculty Council adopted changes to the campus General Education requirements that made Diversity in the United States a required component of General Education Shared Goals. Prior to this, all Shared Goals were optional, but highly-encouraged components of the General Education program.

The revised policy—as was the case in the previous version of the policy—gives to the degree-granting unit the responsibility of determining how the Shared Goals are satisfied. The College's Committee for Undergraduate Education (CUE) recommends that the CASE Diversity in the United States (CASE DUS) requirement—something B.A. and B.F.A. students in the College have been required to complete since Summer 2011 and B.L.S. students since Summer 2013—become the mechanism for meeting the General Education Shared Goal of Diversity in the United States. To accomplish this, CASE DUS will need to be added as a requirement to all B.S. degrees in the College.

Since the changes approved by the BFC require that the College report annually how each "degree programs supports and assesses the DUS learning goals," the College must also identify a means of assessing our CASE DUS learning outcomes.