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Backgrounders & Perspectives

Evergreen State University General Education Requirements

Reed College Humanities

The Graceful Decline of Higher Education
by C.D. Mote, Jr., President,
University of Maryland

Program: Educational Mentoring Team (EMT) Program

Index (limited) of GE programs across the nation

National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

Columbia College (private)
Core curriculum

Colby-Sawyer College

An excellent background paper from the AAC&U panel that came up with their "Greater Expectations" report

Evergreen State College General Description (public)
Evergreen State College Course Offerings

Wager College

Goals for Liberal Learning

Otterbein College (OH) (private)
Integrative Studies Program

Wesleyan University

General Education and Assessment: Generating Commitment, Value, and Evidence

 

Stanford GE (private)

Conference Evaluation

San Jose State
Metropolitan University Scholars Experience (MUSE)
MUSE consists of small general education courses taught by faculty with a special interest in helping new freshmen make a successful transition to SJSU. Only one MUSE course may be taken for GE credit.

Stanford Introduction to the Humanities

PRINCIPLES OF UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING

Pacific Lutheran, Tacoma, WA (private)

GE at CSU Bakersfield, revised 1997

What You Need to Know Before You Go
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Pocket Guide

James Madison University (public)

General Education resources and web sites
GE at San Jose State
Mission
General description
Requirements
Core courses
Major Exceptions
Metropolitan University Scholars Experience (MUSE)

 

Northern Michigan University's First Year Experience Program
Thought it's worth looking at, as it has so many strong co-curricular elements and what looks like a good support system for remedial students.

 

Portland State University (OR) (public)

 

"Seven Principles for Ensuring Undergraduate Learning" by Devin Philips

CSU Dominguez Hills

 

University of South Carolina
National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Susquehanna University (PA) (private)

 

UCLA, PDF (public)
Freshman clusters