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The College at Fredonia is a comprehensive undergraduate college of the State University of New York (SUNY), with an enrollment of 4,500 students. Fredonia is located fifty miles southwest of Buffalo near the southern shore of Lake Erie. In 1980, Fredonia' s faculty governance body instructed its academic affairs committee to prepare a set of recommendations for revision of the college' s general education requirement. This initiative was strongly urged, and strongly supported, by the vice president for academic affairs. Following three years of campuswide discussion and planning, the college instituted a new general education requirement in 1983.
Prior to its revision, Fredonia had a thirty-six credit-hour distribution, the general college program (GCP), which was required of all students. It was the common view of the faculty that the GCP lacked a clearly articulated set of learning goals. The goals that one might discern in the program were not consistently addressed in the courses available. There was inadequate attention to writing. All students were required to take the standard one-semester English composition course. Beyond this, there was no other specified writing requirement (though clearly some GCP courses involved a substantial amount of formal writing by students). The program paid no attention to issues of cognitive or cumulative skills development as students moved through it. Though certainly many sound, well-taught courses were available to students, there was NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, no. 100
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