Readings

Previous Reports on Establishing a General Education Standard at UVM

• COBE Report: General Education at the University of Vermont (1979)
• Report of the Academic Affairs Subcommittee on Curricular Cohesiveness (2002)
• Final Report of the Transformational Change Working Group (April 2009)
• NEASC UVM Team Report (June 2009)
• Information Literacy White Paper (March 2006)

National Guidelines for General Education

• NILOA Report on Learning Outcomes Assessment
• Trends and Emerging Practices in General Education
• Executive Summary: College Learning for the New Global Century. Association of American Colleges and Universities (2008)
• What Will They Learn? American Council of Trustees and Alumni (2009)

Miscellaneous

• To Answer Our Most Fundamental Questions, Science Needs to Find a Place for the Arts. Seed Magazine.com, June 2010
• Gaff JG: Avoiding the Potholes: Strategies for Reforming General Education.Educational Record, Fall 1980
• Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? by Daniel T. Willingham
• What Should Colleges Teach? NY Times Blog by Stanley Fish

 

 

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