Oklahoma City University professor of history Marie Hooper, in her ninth year of teaching multiple sections of World Civilization to 1500, is familiar with challenge of making a survey course engaging. "This course is five thousand years of history in fifteen weeks," she says. But a few years... Read More
Campus Models and Case Studies
University of Rochester
The word entrepreneurship often is associated with business terms like sweat equity, startup costs, and the liberating phrase, "Be your own boss." Revenue, ROI, and profit are typical measures of entrepreneurial success, at least for the typical entrepreneur. And becoming an... Read More
Elon University
In the past five years at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, in-depth service projects have included renovating a house, creating program materials for a women's shelter, clearing hiking trails for the forestry department, and recording a CD with local musicians to raise money for charity... Read More
McDaniel College
In assistant professor Peter Craig's Kitchen Chemistry course, first-year college students sniff spices, boil vegetables, and investigate the properties of baking powder. His colleague Shabbir Mian's students use prisms and spectroscopes to answer questions about natural phenomena like sunsets... Read More
University of Southern Maine
Comprehensive general education reform is a long-term process that requires careful planning and consensus building. At the University of Southern Maine (USM), faculty and administrators embarked upon such reform in 2001 at the prompting of the school's provost, Joseph Wood. Six years later,... Read More
San José State University
Over the past decade, San José State University (SJSU) has introduced a series of general education reforms that have placed the campus at the forefront of efforts to design more effective curricula. In the 1990s—a time when general education outcomes assessment was still uncommon—the campus set... Read More
Bard College
Bard College, a small, private school situated in New York's Hudson River Valley, has a long history of curricular innovation. Since the 1930s, the college has required that students undergo an evaluation of learning midway through their undergraduate years and... Read More
Arizona State University
"Sustainability" has in recent years become a watchword in global development and environmental fields. Focusing on a nexus of ecological, economic, and social needs, the sustainability movement seeks to ensure that development and prosperity in the present are not purchased at the expense of... Read More
Duke University
For the past fifteen years, Duke University's Focus Program has given entering students the chance to pursue intensive study in thematically linked courses. The program, which is housed in Trinity College and the Pratt School of Engineering, brings undergraduates together with faculty from... Read More
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