Is the SCU proposal in line with best practice? A resounding "yes"

An article New Definition for Liberal Education by Scott Jaschik published in Inside Higher Education summarizes a new AACU report calling for college curricula that... look a lot like what the SCU committee is proposing for the core at Santa Clara. Integrative and interdisciplinary learning is the proper counterweight to the specialization of majors. We don't serve students well by encouraging "bad dabbling" which is what many distribution requirement-oriented cores do (we've all heard the story of the student who takes Chem 5 in the summer and sleeps through every class and barely passes).