Funded by Teagle Foundation, Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum
Based on hundreds of interviews with faculty members, students and alumni at various stages of their lives, the project has gathered a wealth of evidence showing that the habits of critical analysis, complex thinking and self-reflection cultivated in these courses provide a key resource for subsequent professional and personal development.
The Core experience, the data suggest, continues to deliver benefits far beyond graduation and the specific professional pursuits of its alumni.
Whether they are scientists, career diplomats or bankers, alumni point to their Core education as having given them the intellectual flexibility, nuance and ease with complexity on which they have relied in their professional and personal endeavors...