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2 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The University Vantage Point
2 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The University Vantage Point
Pages 29-34
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The conference was extraordinarily consistent with those sensible ideas, and 1 take that as additional evidence and encouragement that improving undergraduate education has genuine momentum that will, in fact, make a real difference. I also sensed in the conference a spirit of openness tO educational reform without parochialism.
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Make undergraduate education benefit more from the research and public service environments of land-grant universities. · Make undergraduate education more customer friendly, economical, and effective.
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The future of liberal education may lie not in its avowed lack of professional content and context but in its role in laying a foundation for and creating an understanding of what professional life is all about. With this approach, undergraduate professional education faces all of the challenges that have been placed before undergraduate education in general and that 1 listed earlier.
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We can learn to insist on proper preparation before college work is begun and in working with elementary and secondary schools to ensure such preparation. Professional programs have been better able to establish a distinct set of expectations for precollege students than liberal education programs have.
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· We have seen new, more interdisciplinary curricula, for example, in the Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, that represent distinctive movement in the directions 1 indicated above. Our general liberal education requirements for students at the Twin Cities campus are in the final stages of revision, with contributions from the professional programs being an important ingredient, with assessment of outcomes being a necessity, with articulation with the secondary schools being a matter of course, and with teaching across the curriculum being an indispensable mode of operation.
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They already exist in departments all over the country, and they reflect a strength in values that will reinforce not resist the restructuring and reform that will make a difference. The president who wants to rethink undergraduate education has many talented allies.
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