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 are charged by the Idaho State Board of Education (SBOE) with creating and shaping policies and outcomes to be used and implemented by all public post-secondary institutions that govern general education matriculation (GEM) standards for ISU’s Objectives 1 thru 6. GERC learns from ISU's faculty appointees on the State-wide Discipline Groups what SBOE's stance is regarding general education, and this helps to guide GERC's efforts.
- 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.
GERC Membership 2025-26
MEMBER NAME |
COLLEGE CONSTITUENCY |
TERM EXPIRES |
PHONE |
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ARTS & LETTERS: |
May 2025 |
|
Edward Kammerer |
ARTS & LETTERS: |
May 2026 |
ext. 2799 |
BUSINESS |
May 2027 |
ext. 5686 |
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EDUCATION |
May 2026 |
ext. 4516 |
|
Laura Gleason |
LIBRARY/STUDENT SUCCESS |
May 2027 |
208-373-1817 |
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SCIENCE & ENGR: |
May 2025 |
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SCIENCE & ENGR: |
May 2026 |
ext. 7714 |
|
TECHNOLOGY |
May 2025 |
ext. 2619 |
|
Vacant |
DIV. HEALTH SCIENCES |
May 2027 |
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Vacant |
DIV. HEALTH SCIENCES |
May 2026 |
|
Vacant |
ASISU |
May 2027 |
ext. 3435 |
Ex-Officio, Non-Voting
Laura Ahola-Young |
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS OFFICE |
ext. 5713 |
Shu-Yuan Lin |
PROGRAM REVIEW & ASSESSMENT |
ext. 3185 |
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE |
ext. 4963 |
|
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE CENTER (ITRC) |
ext. 2105 |
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Laurel Tomin |
ACADEMIC ADVISING |
ext. 5412 |
CURRICULUM COUNCIL (UCC) VICE CHAIR or DESIGNEE |
ext. 4582 |
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Administrative Assistant II |
ext. 3214 |
ISU Faculty Representatives on SBOE's Gen Ed Disciplinary Groups:
Objective 1: Written Communication -- Margaret Johnson (primary); Hal Hellwig (alternate)
Objective 2: Oral Communication -- James DiSanza (primary)
Objective 3: Mathematical Ways of Knowing -- Pageant Jones (primary); Xiao Xia (Jessica) Xie (alternate)
Objective 4: Humanistic and Artistic Ways of Knowing -- Jessica Winston (primary); vacant (alternate)
Objective 5: Scientific Ways of Knowing -- vacant (primary); Eddie Tatar (alternate)
Objective 6: Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing -- Ed Kammerer (primary); Elizabeth Redd (alternate)
State General Education Committee Member -- Laura Ahola-Young