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What Degrees Should Mean

Inside Higher Ed

January 25, 2011

To try to provide a shared understanding of what degrees mean -- but without, its designers insist, turning that into a government or other mandate -- the Lumina Foundation for Education is today releasing a draft of its Degree Qualifications Profile. The foundation assembled four longtime experts on assessment and student learning to "reduce to writing, without worrying about implementation, what would be the core competencies" for recipients of various degrees, and plans to enlist several groups to help it test and refine the degree profile,

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