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Committee approves narrower general-education requirement for state colleges to emphasize civic knowledge and transferable credits
Summary
HB 1696 (as amended) establishes a focused general-education subset—written/oral communication, critical-thinking math/science, U.S. history and American government—to improve transferability and reduce total general-education hours while maintaining transfer accords across state-supported institutions.
Representative McLendon presented HB 1696 (as amended), a bill to revise the general-education core for associate and baccalaureate degrees at state-supported institutions to a smaller, transferrable set of required competencies intended to support timely graduation and civic literacy.
Ken Warden, Commissioner of the Division of Higher Education, told the committee the proposal sets a required subset of…
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