Discover the purpose and impact of general education courses and how they can reshape your learning outlook and teach essential skills. The general education curriculum focuses on the ...

The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

The time to rethink and reimagine general education is long past due. Surveys suggest that students view gen ed requirements as little more than a checklist. Certainly, the value of gen ed isn’t ...

Just the thought of general education requirements often conjures up dread. Many students see it as an obstacle course with numerous hurdles preventing them from what they most want to pursue.

It is also sometimes called liberal education, including by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which describes it as providing “a sense of social responsibility, as well as strong ...

At one time, it was common for colleges and universities to have a core curriculum for all students – courses that were thought to provide the foundation of a well-rounded education. For decades, ...

Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

At their Dec. 12 meeting, the Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted in favor of new general education requirements for the undergraduate program at the College of William & Mary. The vote caps a year-long ...

In this controversial proposal, the Commission on Higher Education is eyeing a significant cut in general education units to 18, with the pilot testing targeted for SY 2026-2027 MANILA, Philippines – ...