{"id":97,"date":"2018-03-05T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-assessment\/generaleducation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:33:21","slug":"generaleducation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/assessment\/generaleducation\/","title":{"rendered":"General Education Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The General Education Requirements Committee (GERC<\/a>) is one of four curricular committees<\/a> the faculty maintains to provide the first level of consideration for particular academic matters at the College; all GERC actions are subject to review by the Educational Policy and Governance (EPAG) Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macalester has four General Education requirements (GERs): Internationalism; Quantitative Thinking; U.S. Identities and Differences; and Writing.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GERC approves courses that fulfill these requirements.  Another of GERC\u2019s roles is to \u201cassist in evaluating whether the goals of the requirements are being fulfilled on an institutional basis in consultation with relevant College programs, offices, and individuals.\u201d  The Assessment Office collaborates with GERC on general education assessment. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An \u201cAssessment for Learning\u201d philosophy <\/span>(Fall 2019 HLC Workshop)<\/span><\/i> aligns best with our campus environment and priorities.  This embedded approach to assessment places emphasis on alignment among assignments, the examples of student work we collect, and the rubrics used to score student work.  We use systematic and regular assessments to gather information about what’s going well and how we could improve.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please see the Provost’s Committees and Reports<\/a> webpage for recent GERC reports; see our  Assessment Schedule<\/a> for additional details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025-2026 GERC members:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n