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Elrod, Susan; Kezar, Adrianna – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
For the past 20 years, numerous reports have called for change and reform of undergraduate education to improve student learning, persistence, and graduation rates for students in STEM. Many change efforts have been started but few have reached the transformational level of entire programs, departments, or colleges in the STEM disciplines. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, STEM Education, Organizational Change, Undergraduate Study
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Carter, Jason R.; West, John B. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Compare and contrast strategies remain common pedagogical practices within physiological education. With the support of an American Physiological Society Teaching Career Enhancement Award, we have developed a junior- or senior-level undergraduate curriculum for exercise physiology that compares and contrasts the physiological adaptations of…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Education, Exercise Physiology, Undergraduate Students
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Grills, Cheryl N.; Fingerhut, Adam W.; Thadani, Vandana; Machon, Ricardo Arturo – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Learning communities have increasingly become a mechanism for education reform in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education. Recognizing that learning occurs both inside and outside the classroom, their emergence is partly a response to the critique that undergraduate education at American research universities lacks integrated and…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, Psychology, Undergraduate Study, College Programs
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Orleans, Myron, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
Online education continues to permeate mainstream teaching techniques in higher education settings. Teaching upper-level classes in an online setting is having a major impact on education as a whole and is fundamentally altering global learning. "Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education" offers a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Instruction
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Alley, Keith E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
Building undergraduate and graduate programs simultaneously highlighted the tensions between disciplinary-based undergraduate programs and interdisciplinary graduate programs.
Descriptors: Research Universities, Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Institutional Role
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Wright, Jeff R. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
In this article, the author relates his experiences leading the building of the School of Engineering within the new University of California (UC) campus of UC Merced. He discusses the goals of the project, as well as the challenges it faced, and concludes with personal lessons for those tasked with similar positions within university building…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Faculty, Undergraduate Study, Academic Achievement