GERC Members & State Gen Ed Reps

General Education at ISU is governed by State policy, regional accreditation requirements, and internal academic standards to ensure students get a well-rounded, high-quality educational foundation on which to build their academic goals.

• ISU’s General Education Requirements Committee (GERC) oversees ISU’s General Education Program.
• GERC members are faculty elected by their college colleagues.  GERC, a subcommittee of UCC, reviews and approves all gen ed courses and assessment plans, guides the assessment process, and periodically evaluates ISU’s General Education Program as a whole.
  
  
• State-wide Gen Ed Discipline Groups govern general education matriculation (GEM) standards for ISU’s Objectives 1 thru 6.
• Consisting of faculty representatives from Idaho’s universities and colleges, the Discipline Groups establish the learning outcomes for each of the 6 GEM Objectives.
  
  
• ISU’s Undergraduate Curriculum Council (UCC) oversees ISU’s Undergraduate course offerings and program curriculum.
• UCC members are faculty elected by their college peers to review and approve all undergraduate course information and degree program curriculum published in the Undergraduate Catalog, including general education courses.