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Summer2018Vol.20No.3

Reforming General Education As If It Matters—Because It Does

While the pace of change in higher education can be slow, general education has emerged as a space of innovation, collaboration, thoughtfulness, creativity, and inquiry. This issue explores lessons learned from the AAC&U Institute on General Education and Assessment in which campus teams refine and advance programs using the General Education Maps and Markers (GEMs) framework.

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From the Editor

From the Editor

Shelley Johnson Carey

Analysis

Grounding General Education in Principles That Matter

Loraine Phillips, Associate Provost for Academic Effectiveness, Georgia Institute of Technology

Practice

Committing to Proficiency Through Our Liberal Education Program

Kristian M. Twombly, Mark Springer, James R. Heiman, Kevin W. Sharpe, and R. Jeffrey Ringer; all of St. Cloud State University

General Education as a Gateway for Establishing Self-Directedness

Ian C. Chow, Paula Hodgson, Sze-Wing Tang, Wing-Hung Wong, and Yang Yeung; all of The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Telling Our Story of General Education Reform

Pamela Tracy, Heather Lettner-Rust, Larissa Smith Fergeson, Sharon Emerson-Stonnell, and David Locascio; all of Longwood University

One Degree: Collaborating with Community College Partners for Student Success

Geoffrey Buhl, Amanda Quintero, Marie Francois, Michelle Pajka Hasendonckx, and Kathleen Klompien; all of California State University−Channel Islands

Shifting Campus Conversations to Advance New General Education Programs

Rachel L. DiCioccio, Elaine Finan, and Eric C. Kaldor; all of The University of Rhode Island

Research

From Application to Action Plan: How the Language of Gen Ed Reform Changes over Time

Ashley Finley and Erin Horan, both of AAC&U

Reality Check

What Can Go Wrong When Everything Is Right?

Paul Hanstedt, Roanoke College

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