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Brown University: In 2007, a Task Force on Undergraduate Education was convened at Brown to review the undergraduate academic programs.  The report of the Task Force, The Curriculum at Forty: A Plan for Strengthening the Undergraduate Experience at Brown was issued in September of 2008.  The Task Force convened several sub-committees and benefitted from substantial input from faculty, students, alumni, parents, and others.  The recommendations of the Task Force included strengthening of undergraduate advising programs; periodic reviews of all undergraduate concentrations that include an examination of each concentration’s mission and outcomes; a renewed focus on writing competency; and a restatement of the principles and expectations of liberal learning that guide the academic program at Brown. Since the completion of the work of the task force an external review of the undergraduate writing program has been concluded, new advising programs have been launched that create new opportunities for contact between faculty and students in the residence halls, and concentration reviews have begun.

 In addition to this process, Brown regularly participates in a number of multi-institution surveys and completes internal studies to continuously measure the effectiveness of Brown’s open curriculum in providing undergraduates with a broad liberal education that equips them with the skills and knowledge that they will need for the broadest possible range of post-graduate professional pursuits and for lives as citizens of an increasingly global community.

 

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