The General Education Reform Task Force is committed to academic equity and inclusive excellence, student success, and increased transparency. Therefore, as part of the process to learn more about the current state of the field and improve GenEds, the Task Force has developed a list of peer institutions that have recently undergone their own reform, to explore ideas and possibilities for our own reform here at Pitt. The examples at these institutions will create a benchmark for us to compare with Pitt.
Links to the Gen Ed Home Page for the following universities:
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Clemson University
Ohio State University:
Pennsylvania State University:
Temple University
University of Arizona
University of Buffalo
University of Louisville
University of South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Carnegie Mellon University
Clemson University
Ohio State University:
Pennsylvania State University:
University of Arizona
University of Buffalo
University of Louisville
University of South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Ohio State University
The GE allows students to take a single, 4+ credit course to satisfy a particular GE Theme requirement if that course involves key practices that are recognized as integrative and high impact. Practices currently qualifying for designation as 4+ credit, integrative courses are: service learning; global and intercultural learning; research and creative Inquiry; interdisciplinary team-taught courses; and courses with instruction in a foreign language.