How could elimination of General Ed requirements be achieved.
I have been thinking about how to implement a three-year university program in a country that is accustomed to thinking that it takes four years to obtain an undergraduate degree. Also, the Law of Unintended Consequences needs to be considered. For example, some certifications are tied to the number of college course hours, such as a CPA. Suppose instead of waiving the general education requirements, the university awarded all high school graduates 30 credit hours that would not go into the GPA calculation. In that case, the CPA requirements for 150 hours could be met. One consequence of reducing college to three years is that the enrollment would go up. Why go for four years when you can get the same degree in three? The enrollment would stay up until most universities adopted the three-year program. With the ingrained reluctance of academia to adapt to anything new, it could take decades for universal adoption of the three-year program.