LEAP Campus Toolkit

The new curriculum at Arcadia draws on intellectual practices, areas of inquiry, high-impact curricular experiences, and work in the major to create a holistic undergraduate experience.

Created by a recent Champlain College graduate, the diagram allows a quick view of a coherent four-year experience. The curriculum is built on high-impact practices.

How do you communicate the importance of general education to students? St. Olaf persuades them: “Don’t just check off those requirements!”

Pedagogies, curricular pathways, and assessment strategies for four learning outcomes: integrative, inquiry, global, and civic learning.

Templates and how-to for logic models focused on desired outcomes for students, faculty, and institution-wide culture of assessment.

A map of a community college’s integrated efforts to promote global learning outcomes. Developed as part of AAC&U’s Shared Futures initiative.

A planning matrix for evaluating progress in general education, with a simple selection of key questions and guiding tips.

A presentation on the practical and political considerations in developing and implementing GenEd reform.

A brief manual to make the case for students to engage with a general education ePortfolio.

A new general education program developing student learning outcomes from entrance through capstone.

Rubrics to assess student learning across fifteen essential learning outcomes.

Eight practical approaches to foster a shared commitment to liberal learning. Excerpt from AAC&U print publication.

A practical guide for general education committees: Fifty pitfalls and common errors in the process of reform. Excerpt from AAC&U publication.

A schematic for developing a learning-centered paradigm for general education to replace the hierarchic instruction paradigm.