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An Introduc+on to the College for Faculty Assembly – January 17, 2012
John Mackey
Special Thanks to Sr. Associate Dean Robert Oresick
The mission of the College of General Studies is to provide students with a unique interdisciplinary two-‐year liberal arts core curriculum taught by a team of faculty with Ph.D.s in a cross sec+on of disciplines.
CGS offers students the intellectual environment of a small premier liberal arts college during their first two years and an entree into one of the many degree-‐gran+ng colleges at Boston University.
Some CGS Facts -‐CGS is located at 871 Comm Ave.
-‐CGS employs 50 full-‐+me faculty with Ph.D.s and seven professional advising staff
-‐CGS students are the second-‐largest group of incoming BU first-‐year students (approx. 700)
-‐Sophomores end their CGS careers by comple+ng and defending a group interdisciplinary Capstone Project
-‐Incoming CGS first-‐year students are in the top 20% of their high school classes and have an average GPA of 3.3
-‐CGS students are approximately 65% female
-‐The CGS Wri+ng and Academic Support center offers wri+ng consulta+on, study skills strategies, +me-‐management assistance, and similar services
-‐CGS Publishes a weekly Newsle^er and a biannual alumni magazine called The Collegian
CGS Administra.on
-‐Linda Wells, Dean of the College (pictured)
-‐Natalie McKnight, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
-‐Stacy Godnick, Sr. Associate Dean
-‐Robert Oresick, Sr. Associate Dean
Faculty and their Academic Divisions at CGS
CGS faculty hold the ranks of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer. Some faculty are tenured or on tenure track, while others are on the non-‐tenure lecturer track. CGS faculty have dis+nguished records of teaching, university service, and publishing. They reside in four divisions:
-‐Division of Humani+es (14 full-‐+me faculty) – Adam Swee+ng, Ac+ng Chair
-‐Division of Natural Sciences and Mathema+cs (8 full-‐+me faculty) – Peter Busher, Chair
-‐Division of Rhetoric (14 full-‐+me faculty) – Ma^hew Parfi^, Chair
-‐Division of Social Sciences (14 full-‐+me faculty) – Jay Corrin, Chair
CGS was founded in 1952 as a part of Boston University’s par+cipa+on in the na+onal movement to open the doors of higher educa+on to more ci+zens.
The college was organized around two founda+onal ideas:
1. Teaching and Student Development, which led to the innova+ve Team Structure
2. General Educa.on, which led to the interdisciplinary Core Curriculum
The Team Structure A Team typically consists of 85-‐100 students, divided into sec+ons or labs of
20-‐25 students or Rhetoric sec+ons of 10 to 15 students
Freshman Team:
-‐One Humani+es Faculty Member
-‐One Social Sciences Faculty Member -‐Two Rhetoric Faculty Members -‐One full-‐+me Academic Advisor
Sophomore Team:
-‐One Humani+es Faculty Member
-‐One Social Sciences Faculty Member -‐One Natural Sciences Faculty Member -‐One full-‐+me Academic Advisor
Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (CITL)
-‐Impact: The Online Scholarly Journal of CITL
-‐Summer Ins+tutes Summer 2012: Baseball – an Interdisciplinary Summer Ins+tute
-‐Post-‐Doctoral and Graduate Teacher Training
-‐Academic Conferences focused on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research (star+ng 2013)
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CGS Freshman High School Grade Point Average
Fall 2009, CGS'11, BU'13
Since 2000, our freshmen high school GPA has been about a B+ (3.2)
Fall, 2009: 6 freshmen entered CGS with a 4.0 high school GPA, 12 with a 3.9 and 26 with a 3.8.
Until the late '70s, our average freshman student had a 2.0 high school GPA.
From the late '70s through the mid '90s, our entering students had about a 2.5 GPA.
Fall 2009 high school GPA mean = 3.22
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Continuation from CGS to CAS, COM, and SMG
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Continuation from CGS to SED, SAR, SHA, MET, ENG,CFA, and UNI
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Student Opportuni.es Outside The Classrooms of 871 Comm Ave.
-‐Student Clubs and Organiza+ons like FLAPS (Film Lovers and Philosophers Society), Science and Society Group, World Affairs Forum, the CGS Literary Magazine Chimaerid, CGS Student Government, and others
-‐CGS Humani+es and Natural Sciences Study Abroad programs in London
-‐The CGS Social Sciences China Tour
-‐The Gilbane House on Bay State Road