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Educators Zero In on What Lumina's Degree-Qualification Template Would Mean

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 28, 2011

The Lumina Foundation for Education's new blueprint for college degrees has been a source of fascination (and some skepticism) at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Hundreds of administrators and faculty members filled a plenary session that focused on the document, "The Degree Qualifications Profile," which was released on Tuesday. The audience seemed generally open to the concept, but there was also some puzzlement about what exactly the template is meant to accomplish.

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