General Education

Crowder College, in compliance with the State agreement on General Education, has built this website to provide information about the General Education core of the Associate in Arts Degree at Crowder College.  We invite comments and concerns about the nature of the general education core as we have defined it. The matrix provided by the Coordinating Board of Higher Education (CBHE) will be broken into component parts by the identified goals and put into individual pages within this website.  The various components of the matrix will be included and links to Crowder Institutional Syllabi will be provided.

The process for reviewing and revising the General Education Core at Crowder included numerous discussions by a General Education Committee and additional discussions within the various divisions of the college.  After reviewing the existing program, the committee concluded that modifying the distribution model while taking into account the various goals and objectives would make the most sense for Crowder.  As the product of those discussions, the proposed distribution and criteria can be found in section three of the college catalog.

The goals and competencies may be accessed by clicking here.  Comments can be addressed to Dr. Brad Tyndall, Dean of Arts and Sciences at 417-455-5740 or by email at btyndall@crowder.edu.