National Praise for USM's Curriculum Reform!! "I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you, "...and to let you know before you leave that the work being done on your new general education curricula is leading edge in the national context." ....read more |
AAC&U Recognizes USM's Curriculum Reform! "The University of Southern Maine Reenvisions General Education" "Comprehensive general education reform is a long-term process that requires careful planning and consensus building. At the University of Southern Maine (USM), faculty and administrators embarked upon such reform in 2001 at the prompting of the school’s provost, Joseph Wood. Six years later, with new first-year courses being piloted and with a provisional general education plan in place, USM is poised to begin seeing the benefits of broad curricular reform." ....read more |