A PUBLIC hearing on the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) “Policies, Standards and Guidelines on the Reframed General Education Curriculum Component” was scheduled for the afternoon of May 5, 2026. The most important part of this would-be reframed general education (GE) curriculum for me — and the community of historians and collegiate-level history faculty in the country — is Article V (“General Education Structure and Content”) Section 7-A of the CHED draft document where the five courses that constitute the