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Saint Louis University approved our new 大学的核心 in the spring of 2020. 这 University-wide approval was the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year collaborative process involving faculty, students, alumni, staff and administration — all working together to envision what a shared undergraduate experience at 博彩网址大全 could and should 包含. The University Undergraduate Core Committee (UUCC) led this initiative. Our new 大学的核心 began with a pilot year in 2021-22, all undergraduate students entering in 2022-23 began the new Core.

Until our new 大学的核心 curriculum was approved in March 2020, Saint Louis University lacked a common undergraduate general education curriculum across all colleges and 学校. 为什么会这样呢?

博彩网址大全 is the second-oldest Jesuit university in the United States, but we were the first Jesuit institution of higher learning to offer our students a curricular choice. By 1858, students could choose between a “classical curriculum” and a “commercial curriculum.” On the one hand, this made 博彩网址大全 distinctive: we were the first Jesuit university to offer both professional preparation and a liberal arts education. 然而，在实践中， this meant that each college or school maintained different general education curricula 随着博彩网址大全的发展. Before 博彩网址大全 developed and approved our 大学的核心, the college and school curricula that did exist — even the large core in the College of Arts and Sciences — were not designed to foster student agency in integrating knowledge across 学科.

这 lack of integration both within and between colleges/学校 created a range 的挑战. Students whose interests and goals changed found it difficult to change majors across colleges/学校 without delaying graduation. 在学院/学校, many students and faculty complained that requirements are both too numerous and lack 一致性. 教师 did not share a collective vision of or goal for what a 博彩网址大全 undergraduate 教育能够而且应该传授知识. Many of our students likewise graduated without a clear conception of what sets them apart as graduates of a 200-year-old Jesuit university. Finally, because we were not assessing student learning across our multiple cores, we had no mechanism to use collected data to improve the Core educational experience.

The UUCC’s work on a shared undergraduate 博彩网址大全 core was informed by the work of the 2015-16 Task Force on Becoming a 博彩网址大全 Baccalaureate, the 2016-17 College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Core Curriculum Working Group, the 2016-17 Joint 教师 Senate - Provost Task Force on the 大学的核心 Curriculum and Shared Undergraduate Experience. The 2015-16 Task Force responded to a charge from Provost Nancy Brickhouse and the 教师 Senate to “develop a vision statement that articulates what is distinctive about a 博彩网址大全 undergraduate education.”

The vision statement then informed the work of the 2016-17 CAS Core Curriculum Working Group and the 大学的核心 Curriculum Task Force, charged by President Fred Pestello, to determine “[w]hat institutional structures are needed to house and maintain an exc艾伦t university-wide undergraduate core?” 这 Task Force recommended the creation of a University-wide undergraduate Core committee that would be charged with developing and implementing a common 博彩网址大全 Core. 这 committee, the UUCC, delivered its final Core Proposal to the 博彩网址大全 faculty on January 31, 2020; the faculty voted to approve this Core on March 20, 2020; 博彩网址大全’s Council of Deans and Directors and Chester Gillis, Ph.D., interim provost, followed suit on March 31, 2020.