As the severity of the global health crisis presented by the emergence of COVID-19 became apparent, colleges and universities across the United States began bringing students home from study abroad programs and canceling international travel for faculty and students. Wishing to honor its commitment to global learning for all, the State University…

Colleges and universities must ensure that graduates are equipped to succeed in the global workforce. What do we know about the extent to which institutions are designing international activities, providing students with direct experience of different cultures and courses on global topics, and ensuring that graduates acquire global learning…

In November 2011, the author--Ivan Fuller, a professor of theatre and associate dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Rider University--attended a joint symposium of the American Conference of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa that was designed to wrestle with the question of why the humanities matter. At one session, participants…

This paper presents an approach to organizing general education around international education through focusing on a specific world area, in this case Latin America. Considered are the importance of Latin America as a major regional entity, major cultural characteristics that North Americans need to understand, and programmatic considerations in…

Development of a more integrated and globally focused curriculum at Earlham College (Indiana) is chronicled, focusing on development of interdisciplinary cooperation; internationalization of the curriculum; use of visiting scholars; and redesign of study-abroad programs to incorporate predeparture orientation, a structured ethnographic or…

Discussion of cultural diversity and the college curriculum refutes three myths: (1) that curriculum expansion to include minority and women's studies represents a minority victims' revolution; (2) that the choice is between retaining and abandoning Western civilization; and (3) that proponents of change try to enforce "correct" thinking about…

Describes a new approach to undergraduate study of the humanities at the University of Denver, how it was developed, how it is working, and what strategies it suggests for curricular change. (Editor/PG)

How Gallaudet College, a national liberal arts school for the deaf, went about remodeling, and revivifying, its undergraduate curriculum. (Editor/PG)

Curriculum development to incorporate new scholarship about women is necessary and would be aided by two ingredients: visiting professorships to bring artists and scholar-teachers versed in the new scholarship to campus for the benefit of both faculty and students, and stipends or release time for faculty wishing to transform existing courses.…

The defining task for undergraduate departments is the design of a major, including the number and content of courses as well as other requirements. Department members must weigh the desire to produce graduates superbly prepared for further study against the charge that the major requires too large a share of an undergraduate's course options.…

An exact humanistic context, it is argued, should guide efforts to review the condition of undergraduate education. The contextual implications for students and faculty, as well as for the way curricula are organized and implemented within and among the academic disciplines are discussed. (MLW)

Conflicting views on the purpose of the undergraduate college curriculum would hold that either (1) the curriculum is too fragmented and needs coherence and structure; or (2) the curriculum is too restricted and needs to be more open and diverse. (DB)

The article responds to a paper by Charles Lemert and the report by the American Association of Colleges, "Integrity in the College Curriculum." Noted are the challenge offered by women's studies programs to authoritarian concepts of knowledge and curriculum. (DB)

Undergraduate education has not kept pace with knowledge about the role of culture in shaping human and social behavior. The deficiencies can and should be repaired, but some real innovations are essential to the process. Despite the challenge, there is a real opportunity to parlay research advances emerging out of the recent "cultural turn" in a…