Historical Documents
- The final report of the USP Self Study Committee (October 2004)
- USP External Review Committee Final Report (May 2006)
- Historical General Education Reform and Assessment web site
- General Education Reform and Assessment Committee Final Report (2006)
- UCAPP Subcommittee (March 2007)
- Provost's White Paper on General Education Reform
2008 Curricular Framework
At its December 8, 2008 meeting, the University Senate adopted the four learning outcomes as proposed by the General Education Reform Steering Committee, to be distributed across a 30-hour curriculum as follows:
| Number of Credit Hours | |
| I. Intellectual Inquiry | |
| The Nature of Inquiry in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences | 3 |
| The Nature of Inquiry in the Social Sciences | 3 |
| The Nature of Inquiry in the Humanities | 3 |
| The Nature of Inquiry in the Arts and Creativity | 3 |
| II. Communications | |
| Writing I | 3 |
| Communication | 3 |
| III. Quantative Reasoning | |
| Mathematical, Logical, and Statistical Foundation | 3 |
| Statistical Reasoning | 3 |
| IV. Citizenship | |
| U.S. Citizenship | 3 |
| Global Citizenship | 3 |
| CREDIT HOUR TOTAL | 30 |