内布拉斯加州卫斯理大学 is among 32 colleges and universities in the nation selected to participate in a general education curriculum initiative.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced the names of 32 colleges and universities chosen in a competitive process to participate in “General Education for a Global Century,” a curriculum and faculty development project that is part of AAC&共同的未来倡议.
“This project comes at an ideal time in the evolution of Nebraska Wesleyan’s commitment to liberal arts education,” said 内布拉斯加州卫斯理大学 Provost Judy Muyskens.
作为32个参与机构之一, Nebraska Wesleyan will revise its general education curriculum to better prepare today’s students with skills and knowledge essential for socially responsible citizenship.
过去的学年, NWU successfully completed a three-year self-study process for continued accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission. 此外, 大学的战略计划, 拱门2010, articulates a future that challenges NWU to advance teaching and learning in ways that better prepare students to participate in a diverse world.
“The university is poised to reaffirm and clarify its learning goals, 重新构想通识教育, renew its emphasis on engaged and experiential learning, 把学术事务和学生生活结合起来,梅斯肯斯说. “Our general education program has had a global focus for 15 years. Participation in this national effort will inform our work as we explore what we mean by global citizenship in the 21st century.”
The institutions selected are from all regions of the country and include two-year, 四年, 公营及私营机构. Nebraska Wesleyan is the only Nebraska school selected for the project. Over 140 institutions applied to be part of the initiative.
其他入选的学校包括:
- 加州州立大学圣马科斯分校
- 卡耐基梅隆大学
- 中央学院(IA)
- 威廉玛丽学院
- 特拉华州立大学
- 哈弗福德学院(PA)
- 约翰卡罗尔大学
- 基恩州立学院(NH)
- 肯尼索州立大学
- 林恩大学
- 迈阿密大学
- 密歇根州立大学(MI)
- Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MN)
- 门罗社区学院(纽约)
- 内布拉斯加州卫斯理大学
- 俄勒冈州立大学
- 莱德大学(NJ)
- 圣何塞州立大学
- 南康涅狄格州立大学
- 春山学院(AL)
- St. 爱德华大学(texas)
- St. 劳伦斯大学(纽约)
- 伍斯特学院(OH)
- 纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校
- 马里兰大学帕克分校
- 马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校
- 北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校
- 南佛罗里达大学(FL)
- 威斯康星大学学院
- 犹他谷大学
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA)
- 伍斯特理工学院(硕士)
This new project builds upon innovative efforts to reframe general education courses and programs, and create coherent curricular designs that address complex, 跨部门和学科的全球问题. In concert with a Global Learning Leadership Council, Nebraska Wesleyan will help lead a high profile, 国家努力:
- articulate essential global learning outcomes for all students;
- refine and disseminate models of global general education curricula that can be adapted across all institutional types;
- provide faculty development opportunities to assist college faculty in designing and teaching interdisciplinary, integrative courses that focus on real-world global issues; and
- develop rubrics to assess global learning outcomes.
Institutional teams will spend the fall and winter on their home campuses refining general education reform strategies and strengthening connections between existing general education goals and outcomes and essential global learning outcomes. They will also inventory the curricular and co-curricular opportunities for global learning that already exist on their campuses and ways those opportunities could be better integrated within their larger general education efforts. 通过社交网站工作, team members will help identify common areas of interest and concern. Those critical issues will be addressed in the project’s central activity—an intensive summer institute in 2011.
For more information about this initiative, visit: http://www.aacu.org/sharedfutures/global_century