Appendix to Faculty Assembly Report Eugene Ryan 8 December 1981

The Faculty Assembly of The University of North Carolina, at its meeting on
Se December , 1981:
-passed the following resolution concerning the Quality Assurance Program:
Whereas the Liaison Committee Report on the Quality Assurance Program
addresses some of the major problems facing the educational systems in
North Carolina; and
Whereas the Report offers a program that, when fully implemented, could
enhanee the quality of education in North Carolina; and
Whereas the Report anticipates, and appears to welcome, debate on the
various details of the Program, be it therefore
Resolved:
1. That the Faculty Assembly supports in principle the Quality Assurance
Program as developed by the Liaison Committee;
2. That the Faculty Assembly calls for continuing efforts to improve the
Quality Assurance Program, particularly in the following respects:
eincluding in the General Education Assessment Program a critical
reasoning component and demonstration of an awareness of world affairs;
-further developing and refining the competencies, as well as the
measurement of them in the criterion-referenced exit tests, to reflect
&8 adequately as possible the essential functions of the teacher;
“putting greater stress on the deleterious effects on school programs
of having significant numbers of teachers teaching out of field;
-insuring that persons responsible for teacher: education play a
major role in evaluating competencies; and be it further
Resolved that the Faculty Assembly recommends that the Program be adopted
only to the extent that funding becomes available for its implementation.