SUNY General Education Program

Columbia-Greene Community College’s General Education (GE) program is consistent with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and SUNY standards which require each program to enable graduates of SUNY undergraduate degree programs to meet the SUNY GE framework knowledge and skills areas and core competencies. In line with SUNY GE policy, the GE Program is “designed to foster foundational skills proficiency with essential skills and competencies, familiarization with disciplinary and interdisciplinary ways of knowing, enhancement of the values and disposition of an engaged 21st century global citizenry...” SUNY GE Framework

All graduates of C-GCC’s A.A. and A.S. programs will complete the College’s general education curriculum, designed to foster foundational skills that support the intellectual development, critical thinking, communication, mathematical and scientific reasoning, civic engagement, global and historical understanding, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The SUNY General Education Framework is effective Fall 2023, for new first-time students entering A.A. and A.S. degree programs. As a condition of graduation, students must complete an academically rigorous and comprehensive core General Education curriculum of no fewer than 30 credit hours in at least 7 out of the 10 knowledge and skill areas.

Your academic advisor can help you plan a path to meet the General Education requirements.

All undergraduate degree-seeking students must demonstrate the required student learning outcomes in three core competencies, Critical Thinking and Reasoning, Information Literacy, and Civic Discourse. Core competencies are not necessarily associated with any one course, though the student learning outcomes may be required in one or more courses.