{"id":223905,"date":"2025-10-17T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=223905"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:17:03","slug":"general-education-curriculum-alignment-final-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/general-education-curriculum-alignment-final-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"General Education curriculum alignment: Final phase underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_52587\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CjNcu3mS8ng?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"University of Hawai\u02bbi General Education curriculum alignment: Final phase underway\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is entering the final stage of a multi-year effort to create a unified, fully articulated general education curriculum across the 10 campuses, a reform aimed at improving transfer, reducing barriers and enhancing student success. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President Wendy Hensel updated the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> on the initiative at its October 16 monthly meeting held at Honolulu Community College. The <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> passed a resolution on May 15 calling for a fully articulated general education program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/system-gnrc-classroom-is-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher in a classroom\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-207168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/system-gnrc-classroom-is-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/system-gnrc-classroom-is-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/system-gnrc-classroom-is.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The initiative, which started five years ago, is an attempt to respond to longstanding challenges that have hindered seamless student movement between campuses. While about 50% of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College students consistently express an intent to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree, actual transfer rates remain significantly lower. Issues such as inconsistent course designations, varying credit requirements and differing course names and numbering systems across campuses often result in credit loss, confusion and extended time to degree.<\/p>\n<h2>Ensuring collaboration and student focus<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;The goal is to ensure that everyone is part of this conversation, and that we\u2019re doing it in a way that preserves respect for each campus while recognizing that, at the heart of this discussion, are the students we serve,&rdquo; said Hensel. &ldquo;We asked the campuses to submit faculty nominees to participate in the process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A newly formed General Education Conference Committee, with representatives from all campuses, convened on October 10. Its charge is to recommend a single, student-centered curriculum that enables junior standing upon transfer and is easily understood by students and advisors. The committee\u2019s work will center on resolving the proposals under consideration over the last five years. The committee will also clarify terms and requirements, standardize credits and review areas such as oral communication, diversification and <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and global\/multicultural components.<\/p>\n<h2>Faculty-driven process and next steps<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;I shared this with the committee, and I think it\u2019s a really important message from the very beginning, faculty are in the driver\u2019s seat,&rdquo; said Hensel. &ldquo;They are at the table and will be close partners as we move through this process. But no single individual, campus or faculty member will control the outcome. We will reach a consensus and bring a recommendation to you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The timeline calls for a first draft by mid-December 2025, followed by systemwide faculty consultation from January to March 2026, with a final proposal presented for <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> consideration in May 2026. Implementation is targeted for fall 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-year effort to create a unified, fully articulated general education curriculum across the 10 campuses is aimed at improving transfer, reducing barriers and enhancing student success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":207168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[72,61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,1664,66],"class_list":["post-223905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-board-of-regents","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-hensel","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/system-gnrc-classroom-is.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223914,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223905\/revisions\/223914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}