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LEAP Initiative/General Education

North Dakota University System faculty members are leading the review of University System general education requirements based on the Liberal Education and America's Promise initiative.

A national initiative, LEAP champions the value of liberal education for individual students and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality. The initiative focuses campus practice on fostering essential learning outcomes for all students, whatever their chosen field of study.

LEAP seeks to engage the public with core questions about what really matters in college; give students a compass to guide their learning; make a set of essential learning outcomes the preferred framework for educational excellence and assessment of learning; and create new alignments between educational secondary and higher education.

LEAP Campus Contacts
Ryan Pitcher	Bismarck State College
Wayne Johnson	Dakota College at Bottineau
Alan Church	Dickinson State University
Doug Darling	Lake Region State College
Bob Bennett	Mayville State University
Andrea Donovan	Minot State University
Brad Tews	North Dakota State College of Science
Larry Peterson	North Dakota State University
Tom Steen	University of North Dakota
Linda Whitney	Valley City State University
Jim Stout	Williston State College

North Dakota public, tribal and private colleges are participating in a statewide discussion of general education review and reform. These campuses have signed the North Dakota General Education Constitution, a document that establishes expectations related to campus representation, periodic meetings, election of officers and voting. For more information, contact Lisa Johnson, NDUS director of articulation and transfer.