Welcome to the Office of Undergraduate Education.

The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) is dedicated to improving the quality of the undergraduate experience for CUNY’s quarter of a million students. To do so, we bring together faculty and administrators from each of the seventeen undergraduate colleges to develop and implement a number of University-wide initiatives. OUE supports organizational change, collaboration among projects and people, curricular and pedagogical innovations, and research that informs University and college policies and practices. Following Ernest Boyer’s charge to fight against the fragmentation of higher education, our goal is no less than to build the integrated University.

In this spirit, the Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE) Initiative was created in 2004 to draw together a number of discrete long-standing programs and new projects under one organizational umbrella. Senior administrators from each of the colleges form a CUE Council, and together examine local and University-wide practices in order to identify and address disjunctures, cut through bureaucracy, and focus on the “business” of teaching and student learning.

CUE is an organizational strategy, an institutional structure, a guiding metaphor, and a promise: to provide a quality education to all CUNY students.

Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE) »

2008-2009 Events

WAC/WID Professional Education Series

September 5
October 24
December 12
April 24

Provosts' Conference on Teaching and Learning

November 7, 2008 at BMCC

Fifth Annual General Education Conference

May 8, 2009 at Lehman College

2007-2008 Events

October 24, 2007
General Education Seminar
Graduate Center, Skylight Room, 3pm - 5pm

November 7, 2007
Conversations with Randy Bass, Exec. Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship and Asst. Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University, at Bronx Community College, Center for Teaching Excellence, Philosophy Hall, Room B02, 10:30 am – 4 pm

November 8, 2007
Guest Speaker: Dr. David E. Kirkland, of NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Urban Stories, Digital Media, and the Shifting Spaces of Literacy”
Bronx Community College, Center for Teaching Excellence, GML Auditorium, 10 am – 12pm

December 4, 2007
CASTL Seminar on Developing Effective Teaching
Graduate Center, Skylight Room, 3pm - 5pm

December 14, 2007
WAC/WID Professional Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Dr. James Gee-on literacy, learning, and video games
Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall, 2pm - 4pm

February 21, 2008
CASTL Seminar: The First Year
Graduate Center, Skylight Room, 3pm - 5pm

March 28, 2008
Quantitative Reasoning Conference
Borough of Manhattan Community College,
Richard Harris Terrace, 9 am - 2:30 pm
Click here for the conference website

May 2, 2008
Fourth Annual General Education Conference
Baruch College
Click here for the conference website

Online Tutorial

CUNY

Assessment
Test in Writing

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Library: Click to Search
and Browse

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Edited Volume on
General Education at CUNY

Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on General
& Liberal Education
Judith Summerfield and
Crystal Benedicks, eds.
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4th Annual Gen Ed Conference

Gen Ed: Making it Work

and Making it Matter
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Carnegie's Institutional
Leadership Program

CUNY is participating in the
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's (CASTL) collaborative effort to improve undergraduate education system-wide.

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Hunter College Report on
General Education Reform

"How We Care for the Curriculum at Hunter College" details the findings of Hunter College's Senate Mellon Project Special Committee to Review the General Education Requirements. To read this report, click here.