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Collection Overview
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| Title: | Advocates for a Common Experience Committee records |
| Date: |
1993-1997 |
| Location Code: | 32/4 |
| Reference Code: | A99 |
| Extent: | 0.15 Cubic ft. |
| Scope and Content Abstract: |
The collection documents the activities and recommendations of the Advocates
for a Common Experience Committee from 1993-1997, including the Academic
Common Experience goals that the committee developed. The collection includes
newsletters from the Advocates for a Common Experience, a flyer, and committee
reports. |
| Historical Abstract: |
In 1991 Provost Michael Baer laid the groundwork for a committee that
would work to create a common experience for all Northeastern University
undergraduates. The Advocates for a Common Experience Committee was created
after the failure of a similar initiative during 1988-1990. Working under
the direction of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Andrea Leskes,
the committee, consisting of faculty, students, administrators, alumni,
and trustees, solicited the help of experts to ascertain the essential goals
for education of all undergraduates and how to go about achieving them.
The committee decided on the following essential goals, which came to be
known as the Academic Common Experience: Students must graduate with the
skills of effective thinking, effective communication, information literacy,
and interpersonal skills; students must study the world in various contexts
and perspectives; and students should also understand the connections in
the world, such as the connections between the theoretical and the applied,
or between the individual and society. The goals were designed for all students
whether in liberal arts, professional, or pre-professional programs. The
Academic Common Experience did not advocate for any core courses, but advocated
that each department incorporate the goals into its existing curriculum.
The implementation of these goals required a great deal of faculty development
and course modification. In 1993 the College of Business Administration
and the Bouvé College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences were the first
units to implement the new philosophy, followed by the College of Nursing
in 1994 and the College of Computer Science in early 1995. By 1997, all
the colleges had implemented the Committee's goals. |
| Language and Scripts: |
Materials are entirely in English. |
| System of Arrangement: | Arranged in one alphabetical sequence by subject. |
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Subjects and Contributors: |
- Academic Common Experience
- Advocates for a Common Experience Committee
- Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.). Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
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| Conditions Governing Access: | Records are closed for 25 years from their date of creation, unless researchers have written permission from the creating office. |
| Processor: | Finding aid prepared by Eliana Wachs Cashman,
February 2008 |
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