Committee on Educational Policy: General Education Reform History

The larger goals of GE reform were:

To converge through faculty conversation on a set of educational goals for general education at UCSC at the beginning of the 21st Century (Our last major general education reform occurred 25 years ago)
To make those goals more explicit and clear than they have been in the past
To make the General Education curriculum more topics-based and less division-based
To make General Education more interesting and reflective of UCSC’s Identity

The Senate passed legislation proposed by CEP for General Education Reform in Winter and Spring quarters of 2009.

CEP asked divisions to propose educational goals for general education breadth requirements:

CEP asked departments to provide first draft educational goals for writing and other forms of communication in the major:

Other Responses to the Reform Pre-Proposal

Karen Holl, Environmental Studies
Writing, breadth, and ITCs

CEP: General Education Reform Reports:

The links below document the history of and thinking behind general education reform

CEP hosted the following Brown Bag General Education Workshops:

“Reconceiving the Current E (Ethnic Minorities / Non – Western Society) requirement” Friday, November 21
“Breadth in general education: subject areas or methodologies? Monday, November 24
“General education and interdisciplinary Topical Clusters”