The General Education Project, which began in January 2003, calls for CUNY's 17 undergraduate campuses to thoroughly investigate the sets of practices that constitute General Education. The idea was to have those closest to teaching students – academic deans and faculty – collectively examine the promises and the practices of General Education of their own colleges within the context of the integrated University.
The project allows both faculty and administrators to examine the assumptions that underlie a liberal education and the actual practices that purport to implement General Education.
A primary purpose of the General Education Project is to generate a set of definitions and goals for General Education that are commonly understood by faculty and students across the many campuses of the University.
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To strengthen the undergraduate curriculum across the entire university by engaging faculty, students, and administrators in considering the large questions about what constitutes a college education in the 21st century. These questions are very much in the public eye across the country:
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Edited Collection on General Education at CUNY
Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on
General & Liberal Education 
Judith Summerfield and Crystal Benedicks, eds. For more information, click here. |
