AAC&U News | January/February 2010

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What’s In a Dialogue? Lynn University’s Core Curriculum Explores Big Questions
When Lynn University Vice President for Academic Affairs Cynthia Patterson first launched a committee to extensively redesign the university’s general education program, she expected some resistance from the faculty. So did Associate Professor Katrina Carter-Tellison, the university’s core curriculum chair. “We basically heard a lot of ‘Are you crazy?’” Carter-Tellison remembers. The ambitious new program they were proposing would completely change how Lynn students approached their education, weaving “big questions” of liberal learning .…. READ MORE

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With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College

In Defense of the Liberal Arts
by Jon Meacham, Newsweek, January 9, 2010

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