Final Report of the Commission on General Education in the 21st Century

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In a major new report published online this past week by Berkeley's Center for Studies in High Education, a panel of University of California faculty and administrators, the Commission on General Education in the 21st Century, has called for renewed attention to general education in research universities, highlighting specific reforms for UC campuses.

The report, entitled "General Education in the 21st Century," analyzes the forces that constrain investment in general education and lists recommendations to improve general education in the face of these constraints. Unlike other recent studies of undergraduate education, which have focused on individual institutions, this report analyzes what could be done to improve general education in research universities generally.

The Commission, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Flora Hewlett Foundation, was co-chaired by Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego and the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and Neil Smelser, University of California, Berkeley. Its 25 members included representatives from all nine University of California undergraduate campuses as well as authorities on higher education from Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton.

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