064: Radically Rethinking General Education with Guest Megan Fromm

Solutions for Higher Education with Southern Utah University President Scott L Wyatt

Show Notes:

Dr. Megan Fromm, journalism teacher at Grand Junction High School, joins us on this week’s podcast to discuss the rethinking of general education requirements in education. Dr. Fromm penned the article “How We Could Radically Rethink the Core Curriculum in Higher Education” which the group references throughout the episode.

Featured Quotes:

I think we are most missing an interdisciplinary approach. I feel like we still have, and when I was writing this piece, I reference sort of this idea of, “What would a new core look like?” And I was looking at the core requirements, mostly at different Colorado Universities, and they’re still pretty siloed. You still have a class in humanities or history, you have a health and wellness, you have maybe government politics, and there just wasn’t a lot of crossover, and for students who are increasingly coming to universities looking for that specialization, it was hard for them to make connections.
Megan Fromm

That very specific topic, the idea of the First Amendment, was honestly one of the most compelling reasons that I switched to high school because I...my experience at higher ed was very similar to that incident that you described just in terms of feeling like, “Oh man, we’ve got to do a better job of explaining what this means and the burden of free speech.
Megan Fromm

Links Associated with this Episode:

• Transcript
• Article: How We Could Radically Rethink the Core Curriculum in Higher Education

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