Washington State University’s General Education Visioning Committee was created in 2008 with representatives from a dozen campus departments. The Provost’s Office charged the committee to provide “a vision and strategy” for General Education within a year.
Prior to this committee, WSU’s model of General Education was a compromise model that embodied strengths of different models current in the 1980s, derived from an intensive study of general education models of the time. Based on the GEVC’s conclusions, in 2011 the University approved a new UCORE (University Common Requirements) program.
The collection contains commission materials from WSU's General Education Department from 1985-1988. The collection includes administrative material for training conferences, newspapers related to the department, books on higher education pedagogy, and evaluations of the department and its staff.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Items filed into subject folders but beyond that are in no particular order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Commission on General Education Records, 1985-1988 (UA1999-16)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Bill Lipe of the Anthropology Department in July, 1997 and retained as UA1999-16. It originally belonged to Bob Littlewood.
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