Our general education will:
· Prioritize Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility: These values will inform the general education design.
· Value Clarity in Design and Purpose: General education will be easily navigable, straightforward to all constituencies, and convey a clear sense of purpose.
· Generate Excitement: General education will promote recruitment, retention, and include classes students are excited about taking and faculty are excited to teach.
· Integrate Flexible and Responsive General Education Assessment: We will make our goals for general education clear and use assessment to take action to improve student learning, ensuring a healthy campus culture of assessment.
· Promote Integrative Learning: An effective general education curriculum creates opportunities for students to reflect on their learning, make connections, and to practice solving complex problems using disparate concepts, knowledge, and skills from multiple disciplines.
· Provide Opportunities for Varied Ways of Understanding and Solving Problems: The general education curriculum will provide students with opportunities to practice various modes of inquiry that span disciplines, to define and tackle complex problems, and to create new knowledge and solutions.
· Be relevant and structured purposefully: general education should be relevant to students’ majors and future beyond college and students should practice complex skills and proficiencies throughout their undergraduate career.