Each type of degree award requires a different number of liberal arts and sciences credits as mandated by NYSED (the New York State Education Department). RIT’s General Education framework ...

University President Drew G. Faust called for the College’s General Education program to remain a symbol of liberal arts education at the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday ...

On Nov. 16, the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal in North Carolina, and the National Association of Scholars in New York City (I ...

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 ...

Saint Louis University's master's and certificate programs in education principles and practices provide space for students to think deeply about issues and challenges in education, build knowledge ...

The graduate students who came to see me had teaching in the university’s general-education program on their mind. Their brief: They didn’t like it. They had to prepare too much unfamiliar material.

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 ...

"Gen Ed," the term that dominates talk of Harvard education, was probably coined by some freshman or sophomore ten years ago. He used the phrase to name an experimental program that offered eight ...

General Education is RIT’s signature curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences, with an impact on all students and programs. In accordance with RIT’s mission, General Education requirements ...

In November, the Florida Board of Governors voted to remove the “Principles of Sociology” from the state’s list of approved general-education courses for public-college students. Sociology professors ...