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Norman Jones

Norman L. Jones is professor of history at Utah State University. Author of eleven books and numerous articles on the Elizabethan era, he is a prize-winning teacher. He writes and consults on higher education issues, especially on General Education, the Degree Qualification Profile, and Tuning. A Senior Fellow of the AAC&U, he serves on many boards, including the Assessment Advisory Board of the National Institute for Outcomes Learning Assessment and the DQP/Tuning Advisory Committee for the Lumina Foundation. He is Chair of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Higher Education Advisory Committee.  For many years he was Director of General Education and Curricular Integration at Utah State University. Before that, he chaired the History Department for fourteen years. He chairs the Utah Regents’ General Education Task Force, the body that oversees transfer, articulation and assessment in the Utah System of Higher Education. In that role, he has organized and led the “What is an Educated Person?” Conference for twenty years, promoting discussions among Utah’s faculty and administrations about general education pedagogy and assessment. In 2013 he was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong, aiding the transition from three-year to four-curricula, as the Hong Kong universities added general education to their curricula. He continues to teach history.