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Download full textPidluzny, Jonathan; Urban, Nathaniel; Quillen, Alexandra; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2021
"What Will They Learn?" has been documenting for the last 13 years the crisis of weak core curriculum requirements. In addition to helping students choose the right college for the right reasons, American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) works with college and university leaders on campuses around the country to strengthen curricula…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Direct linkConrad, Clifton; Dunek, Laura – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education--and how to realize those aims. Increasingly influenced by…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Role of Education
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1988
Undergraduate engineering students and their advisors are provided with a handbook to help improve the quality and coherence of the humanities and social sciences (H&SS) component of undergraduate engineering education (fostering more purposeful H&SS course selection). The first of this handbook's three sections has an engineering major…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Selection (Students), Degree Requirements, Educational Planning
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1984
Ways to improve undergraduate education are suggested, based on the work of the Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education. After considering shared values and long-term goals for American higher education, attention is directed to both the achievements and problems of colleges. Major themes are that student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, College Curriculum, College Faculty
