United Academic Professionals of UW-La Crosse

Auniversity’s general education courses help students gain broad knowledge across disciplines and cultures. They also help students develop and practice critical thinking, communication, leadership, problem-solving and other skills that help them understand and shape our future world.

As trained educators and experts in their field, faculty at colleges and universities including UW-La Crosse and around the world collaborate to design general education requirements, reflecting local expertise and insight into student needs.

For example, as an anthropological archaeologist at UW-L, I study how

The Universities of Wisconsin system is pursuing a new systemwide general education policy. Faculty across the UW system have voiced strong opposition to the proposed policy, passing formal resolutions to protect the academic autonomy of the campuses.

Contrary to the claims of the UW system, the proposed policy is not mandated by state law. Act 15, signed this summer, directs the UW system to make core general education courses transferable among campuses. It does not mandate a uniform curriculum.

UW system president Jay Rothman is pushing a one size fits all plan that violates Wisconsin law