Keeping general education vital: a struggle against original sin?(Reality Check) From: Peer Review | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Gaff, Jerry G. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Association of American Colleges and Universities. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

During one of my recent campus visits, a senior Faculty member offered an intriguing metaphor for efforts to revitalize general education. "Are you the same person who wrote about experimental colleges in the late 1960s and 70s?" he asked. I affirmed that I was indeed the same one, and expressed surprise that he had read my work, remembered my name, and connected it with his university's current work on curriculum reform. He thought for a minute before observing flint it wasn't rea...