Readings on
General Education
The Idea of a
University Education:
Cardinal Newman, Booker
T. Washington,
and W.E.B. Du Bois
Newman, John
Henry. The Idea of a University, London:
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1907.
Online:
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/index.html
[August, 2003] See especially Part I, Sections 5, 6,
and 7.
Price,
Gregory N., The Idea of a Black University,
Department of Economics
Working
Paper, September, 1999.
Online:
http://www.ncat.edu/~econdept/wp/ideabu.pdf
Du Bois, W.
E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C.
McClurg & Co.;
[Cambridge]:
University Press John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.,
1903;
Bartleby.com,
1999. Online:
www.bartleby.com/114/. [August, 2003].
Du Bois, W.
E. B. The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques,
1906-1960.
[Herbert
Aptheker, editor] New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001.
Washington,
Booker T. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. New
York: Doubleday,
Page, 1901;
Bartleby.com, 2000. Online:
www.bartleby.com/1004/. [August, 2003].
Recent Research/Discussion on General and Liberal Studies
Association
of American Colleges and Universities.
Online:
http://www.aacu-edu.org/
AAC&U is at
the center of a number of ongoing initiatives focused on
general
education
reform. Their website provides access to a wealth of
information on
general
education resources.
AACU
Publications on General and Liberal Studies
Greater
Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes
to College.
National
Panel Report, Washington: Association of American
Colleges and
Universities, 2002.
Online:
http://www.greaterexpectations.org/
An
analysis of the challenges facing higher education,
successes and failures
in meeting them, and recommendations to rethink what
we should expect
from,
and how we should provide, college education in the
twenty-first
century
(also see the related Briefing Papers at the
www.greaterexpectations.org
website).
Schneider,
Carol Geary and Robert Shoenberg. Contemporary
Understandings of
Liberal
Education. Washington: Association of American
Colleges and
Universities, 1998.
Online
excerpts:
http://www.aacu.org/publications/ContemporaryUnderstandings.cfm
The
first publication in a series exploring The Academy
in Transition,
this
discussion paper maps national trends in educational
reform and
examines
their implications for the content and organization
of higher
learning.
Strong
Foundations: Twelve Principles for Effective General
Education
Programs.
Washington: Association of American Colleges and
Universities,
1994.
Recommends strategies and procedures for sustaining
vitality and strength in
general education.
Gaff, Jerry
G. General Education: The Changing Agenda.
Washington:
Association
of American Colleges and Universities, 1999.
The
third publication in the series exploring The
Academy in Transition, this
discussion paper analyzes changes in general
education over the last two
decades.
General
Education in an Age of Student Mobility: An Invitation
to Discuss
Systemic
Curricular Planning. Washington: Association of
American Colleges
and
Universities, 2001.
The
fifth publication in the series exploring The
Academy in Transition, this
discussion paper includes a collection of essays
examining curricular
coherence.
Ratcliff,
James L., D. Kent Johnson, Steven M. La Nasa, and Jerry
G. Gaff. The
Status of
General Education in the Year 2000: Summary of a
National Survey.
Washington:
Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2001
This
report summarizes the results of an extensive survey
of undergraduate
general
education in a national sample of AAC&U-member
colleges and
universities and provides a snapshot of general
education practice at the turn-of-the-century,
information about significant changes in the past
decade, and
insight
about the challenges of the future.
Additional Publications on General and Liberal Studies
Re-inventing
Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research
Universities. The Boyer Commission on Educating
Undergraduates in the Research
University, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
1998.
Online:
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf/
This report
summarizes the current nature of undergraduate education
in research
universities
and provides recommendations for educational reform.
Reinvention: Why
now? Why us? A Symposium on the Boyer Commission Report: A
Second Anniversary Retrospective. State University of
New York at Stony Brook.
Remarks by
Provost Nancy Cantor, University of Michigan April 28, 2000.
Online:
http://www.umich.edu/~provost/speeches/boyer.html
A follow-up
symposium to the 1998 Boyer Report.
Astin, Alexander W. What Matters in College? Four
Critical Years Revisited. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Research on
student development during college years and how
universities and
colleges
affect that development.
Light, Richard, Making the Most of College: Students
Speak Their Minds, Harvard
University Press, 2001.
Online overviews
of Light’s work:
Light
summarizes interviews with 1600 Harvard students over
ten years,
providing
advice on how students can maximize their education and
what teachers
and
university leaders can do to improve students' college
experiences.
Additional
Online Reading - Links from UNC-CH’s General
Education Curriculum Review web site
Edward
Kidder Graham's Speeches on the Purpose of
Undergraduate Education: The
College and Human Need, 1915 and The Spirit of
the University, 1916.
Online:
http://www.unc.edu/curriculumrevision/documents/grahamspeeches1915.html
Expected
Outcomes for First-year Composition Classes from the
Writing Program
Administrators (from College English, January 2001).
Online:
http://www.unc.edu/curriculumrevision/documents/wpa.htm
A Case
Statement on Quantitative Literacy. Prepared for the
Woodrow Wilson
Foundation.
Online:
http://www.stolaf.edu/other/ql/case.html