May 15, 2009

Colleges Seek New Ways to Give Students a General Education

By David Glenn

A balanced diet of course work—a mathematics class here, a few history and literature courses there—may be a fine and healthy thing. But course-distribution requirements probably are not enough to guarantee that undergraduates acquire a broad range of knowledge and skills.

At least that is what many American colleges seem to have decided, according to a report scheduled for release today by the Association of American Colleges and

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