Higher Education

OVERVIEW

Liberal Arts Education has a long history from classical antiquity to the present. With the 19th-
century advent of universities offering academic majors and minors, the concept of general
education has emerged. Higher education leaders need to be familiar with these forms of
education and how they continue to evolve. These leaders also need to understand how various
forms of learning experiences can allow students to demonstrate that they have successfully
achieved liberal arts and general education learning outcomes as well as outcomes within a
specific discipline. Higher education leaders also need to weigh the extent to which they will
require their faculty to assess these types of outcomes.
INSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment, compose a paper with the following:
1. Analyze liberal arts education and general education and how the emergence of academic
majors and minors in the United States since the early 19th century has impacted these
two forms of education. Include an analysis of how general education fits into a liberal
arts education.
2. Appraise how the learning experiences of assignments, activities, and tasks are each used
differently to demonstrate achievement of course-level student learning outcomes.
3. Justify the extent to which faculty should be involved in general education assessment
and their own department/disciplinary assessment.