General Education (Core) Assessment

The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) assesses core curriculum skills vital for academic and personal success, preparing students for future career and societal challenges. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board mandates evaluating skills in communication (oral and written), critical thinking, empirical and quantitative skills, personal and social responsibility, and teamwork.

Currently, the university will transition to a core assessment process that will involve faculty and staff evaluating student artifacts from Core Curriculum courses. The Office of Institutional Success and Decision Support and the Core Curriculum Committee are currently working together to determine the assessment schedule. The Comets to the Core project, which ran from 2017-2023, is no longer used to assess Core Curriculum objectives. Students are no longer expected to complete it.