通识教育在美国：近一个世纪来的成就与危机

General Education in the United States： The Achievement and Crisis over the Past Century

通识教育计划已经在美国高等教育体系中实施了近一个世纪。经过百年的发展，美国通识教育呈现出可喜的发展趋势，也存在着不可忽视的危机。这种现状受到多方面的影响。然而，不可否认，在美国的实用主义传统及经济危机的影响下，通识教育师资水平、学生需求、大学市场化的变化及其相互作用导致并加剧了美国通识教育的危机。

Up till now, the general education program has been implemented in the U.S. higher education system for nearly a century. Over the past century, American general education has gone through both positive trends and unneglectable crisis. Undoubtedly, against the background of the traditional pragmatism and current economic crisis, the changing situation of teachers" quality as well as students" demand arid the marketization of universities have combined to ignite and deepen the general education crisis in the United Slates.