Gen Ed Is a Joke at Most Schools

Fringe academic departments justify their existence by wedging social justice courses into college gen ed requirements.
The Harvard Crimson

Faculty Votes To Eliminate Option To Take Gen Ed, QRD Courses Pass-Fail

Faculty Votes To Eliminate Option To Take Gen Ed, QRD Courses Pass-Fail Undergraduates will no longer be allowed to take General Education and Quantitative Reasoning with Data courses pass-fail to ...
Inside Higher Ed

A general education curriculum that matters.

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 Harvard Crimson

Harvard Has To Make Up Its Mind About General Education

Henry F. Haidar ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Wigglesworth Hall. There's a big issue with the Harvard College General Education program, and it's pretty apparent to anyone involved: ...
AZ Central

If UA is serious about 'academic excellence,' it'll rework these classes first | Opinion

The University of Arizona's General Education (GenEd) program needs improvement to better align with the university's mission. Many GenEd courses prioritize convenience over providing substantive ...
Inside Higher Ed

How GOP State Lawmakers Are Reshaping General Education

Thousands of college students in some states now have to read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as well as pass American history and government courses to graduate. More changes are ...
The Conversation

College ‘general education’ requirements help prepare students for citizenship − but critics say it’s learning time taken away from useful studies

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 ...