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Seems really "pie in the sky" and conceptual but with little thought of implementation. I think you're going to have a LOT of pushback from instructors, departments, and colleges about teaching outside their areas of competency or being told what to teach.

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Looking at updating an 'antiquated' general ed.

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How to identify/create classes that fit within theme. How to prevent thematic drift. How are colleges going to be encouraged (or coerced) to participate.

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Gen Ed classes are the most diverse in terms of majors and different ways or thinking and thus a good place to teach our students this key skill.  Employers desire this and obviously it is necessary in many areas of life.

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Do we really know what "employers want"?

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Do we really know what "employers want"?

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Is our work about producing "employees", "citizens", or perhaps something else?

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difficult to access value of themes w/o knowing what they are

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1) gened should keep students minds open
2) college neeeds to teach students problem-solving skills

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I wonder, too, if this would lend itself to simply reproducing Majors/Minors. Does a student choosing a theme in GenEd essentially constitute choosing a secondary Major/Minor, juts one that isn't tied to a department or unit?  What sort of mechanism would be in place to ensure a broad general education? 

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I wonder, too, if this would lend itself to simply reproducing Majors/Minors. Does a student choosing a theme in GenEd essentially constitute choosing a secondary Major/Minor, juts one that isn't tied to a department or unit?  What sort of mechanism would be in place to ensure a broad general education? 

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This may be too siloed and put us back wehre we are w/ current GenEd choices (Gwen--revise this as needed!)

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These are the things many employers would like our students to possess upon graduation.

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These are the things many employers would like our students to possess upon graduation.

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- A.J.

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I would still be concerned that students might not encounter different ways of approaching problems and thinking about them. 

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I would still be concerned that students might not encounter different ways of approaching problems and thinking about them. 