The 2015 fall semester marks the first year chemistry professors John Pollard and Vicente Talanquer will be using their complete co-authored e-textbook, “Chemical Thinking,” for general chemistry ...

The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

The time to rethink and reimagine general education is long past due. Surveys suggest that students view gen ed requirements as little more than a checklist. Certainly, the value of gen ed isn’t ...