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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values. The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one. That’s the roadmap. Brian Whitson. Chief Communications Officer.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. ” Yet we can’t do better if we fail to reflect on the past and extract its messages and warnings. Apparently not.