The deadline for receiving input is December 15. The GESC heard many comments at the fall conference and is trying to improve the general education policy based on those comments. Changes Competencies listed in model will stay, but are to be considered illustrative, not prescriptive. Institutions should publish their respective competencies. Institutions should have the ability to design competencies that reflect their own missions.
Goals are prescriptive.
Under the proposed new policy, four-year institutions will be both sending and receiving institutions for purposes of transfer. The goal is to establish equivalence between native and transfer students. Institutions must define their 42-hour block. Institutions with more than 42 hours of general education may require transfer students to take the same number of general education hours as the native students are required. Institutions should identify where problems with accreditation occur.