General Education Requirement Committee

The General Education Requirement Committee (GERC) is one of four curricular committees the faculty maintains to provide the first level of consideration for particular academic matters at the College; all GERC actions are subject to review by the Educational Policy and Governance (EPAG) Committee. See Fall 2023 updates from GERC here (gdoc).

Macalester has four General Education requirements (GERs): Internationalism, Quantitative Thinking, U.S. Identities and Differences, and Writing.  

GERC approves courses that fulfill these requirements. Another of GERC’s roles is to “assist in evaluating whether the goals of the requirements are being fulfilled on an institutional basis in consultation with relevant College programs, offices, and individuals.”  The Office of Institutional Research & Assessment collaborates with GERC on general education assessment. See the GER assessment cycle here.

Please see the Provost’s Reports and Planning webpage for recent GERC reports.

2024-2025 GERC Members:

• Cari Gillen-O’Neel – Chair | USID fellow & review
• Cynthia Kauffeld – USID fellow & review
• Amy Damon – Internationalism fellow & review (Fall only)
• Beth Severy-Hoven – Internationalism fellow & review (Spring only)
• Christina Esposito – Quantitative Thinking fellow & review (Fall only)
• Felix Friedt – Quantitative Thinking fellow & review (Spring only)
• Brigetta Abel – Director of Writing & review
• Arjun Guneratne – EPAG representative
• Timothy Traffie – Registrar
• Nancy Bostrom – Assessment