General Education Recertification & Assessment
Recertification
In 2025-2026 the General Education Council will review recertification requests for those courses currently carrying:
- Critical Thinking and Inquiry in the Humanities & Fine Arts
- Critical Thinking and Inquiry in the Natural Sciences
- Critical Thinking and Inquiry in the Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Global Engagement and Intercultural Learning
- Oral Communication
- Written Communication
The deadline for the MAC course recertification submissions has been extended to February 16, 2026.
Communications have been sent to Department Heads, Program Directors, and School Directors with information about courses to be reviewed and the process for submitting information. Questions about the process can be sent to gened@uncg.edu.
You can preview the recertification form here.
Assessment
In 2025-2026 the General Education Council will assess student learning in the following competencies:
- Foundations
- Health & Wellness
- Data Analysis & Interpretation
- Quantitative Reasoning
The deadline for completion of the Assessment tasks is December 11, 2025.
assessment process
In spring 2011, UNCG faculty participated in a planning workshop for the purpose of developing a plan to assess the General Education Program. Criteria included that the plan be systematic (i.e., all stakeholders know what is expected), manageable and sustainable, engage broader faculty, and yield results that can be acted on to improve student learning in the General Education Program. This process was reaffirmed by the General Education Council in 2021.
The faculty-developed process includes two parts:
- Part 1: Course instructor assessment, where instructors apply a Council-approved rubric to all students’ work in response to an assignment that is aligned with a General Education-specific student learning outcome.
- Part 2: Peer-review assessment, where peer faculty apply the same rubric to a sample of students’ work from Part 1.
Results from part 1 and part 2 are then collected, aggregated, and presented to the University in forums to gather feedback on the General Education program assessment process and to develop recommendations to improve student learning in UNCG’s General Education program. See Results below.
assessment results
See below for results from the assessment of the General Education program going back to Spring 2012. Note that assessment of UNCG’s former General Education program (GEC) ceased in 2018 as the University transitioned to create and implement its active General Education program, Minerva’s Academic Curriculum (MAC).