1998-2002: JMU conceives of general education as freshman and sophomore enterprise.1998: 43% of institutions require course work in junior or senior year.1978: 22% of Universities and Colleges either required more than 50% of baccalaureate courses be in general education, or that courses be taken in junior or senior year.General Education is Expanding into Last Two Years of Baccalaureate U Neb Kearney 46%, KSU, 40% Brooklyn College 36% U North Ala 35% Hampden-Sidney 53% Wm & Mary 46% U Md 38% Hampton 33%.Secular institutions, public or private devote 38.1%.1998: Comprehensive institutions devote 39.4%.2002: JMU devotes 36.6% of its baccalaureate curricula to general education requirements.Ĭomparison of James Madison Required Credits to Comparable Institutions Year 2002: James Madison’s Human Community Requirements occupy 36.6% of the credits devoted to the BA.National Trends in General Education and Core Curricula Stability of Curricular StructuresCurricular Inventions and Curricular Assessment ProceduresĪverage Percentage of Baccalaureate Credits Devoted to General Education is Increasing: 1978-1998 and beyond Provide latest in modeling assessment processes for liberal education that weigh the outcomes of innovations.Provide latest documentation on general education trends and innovations.Trends & Pew Knight Complement Each Other Cluster 3 sites SCHEV use of AALE Standards to build rubric for assessment.Provides a model for using data routinely gathered by institution in as partial replacement for separate self-study.Focuses upon evidence of student learning and accomplishment in liberal education.4-year, performance-based, student learning outcomes assessment accreditation project.Over 20 site visits to learn causes of change in GE and to present findings and innovative practicesĪALE Pew-Knight Educational Effectiveness Accreditation Project.Documents and Disseminates Evolution of General Education Programs in 66 original and 36 additional institutions from 1978-1998.Second Phase, a three-year ACTC study, 2002-2005, for Gen Ed Review and Reform.Trends in the Liberal Arts Core: A Vision for the 21st Century This talk will open with information from Trends and close with information about Pew Knight.“Pew Knight Educational Effectiveness Accreditation Project” - an accreditation assessment project of AALE.“Trends in the Liberal Arts Core: A Vision for the 21st Century”.Trends in the Liberal Arts Core and James Madison University's 'The Human Community' James Madison’s General Education Requirements in relation to the former FIPSE/Mellon/AALE Project: “Trends in the Liberal Arts Core: A Vision for the 21st Century” Now, an ACTC Project
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