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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Somebody's Wish List?

On the systemwide Academic Senate's website, there is a document addressed to Provost and EVP Katherine Newman titled "Characteristics of Undergraduate Educational Quality at the University of California." I'm sure a lot of work went into producing it, but it sure seems like somebody's wish list. Excerpt:

...UC Quality: Expected Outcomes. Graduates of UC will have the ability to:

• Weigh evidence critically and think independently.

• Demonstrate integrity and principled leadership.

• Simultaneously hold multiple narratives in mind.

• Communicate effectively using skills in rhetorical writing with clarity of thought.

• Assess information for accuracy and trustworthiness.

• Make intellectual and creative contributions that serve the public good in California, the nation, and the world.

• Succeed in subsequent study and other postgraduate scholarly activities.

• Make professional contributions in their chosen field, informed by their experience in a research-oriented academic environment, with undergraduates contributing to the creation of

new knowledge with opportunities to work at the very cutting edge of theory and practice.

• Apply the breadth and depth of their education, readily adapting to and taking advantage of rapid changes and evolutions in knowledge, technology, and social paradigms.

Source: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/undergradaute-educational-quality-statement-2024.pdf.

All these characteristics would be nice to have. Could anyone disagree on such goals? But where's the action item?

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