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Bayerl, Katie – Jobs for the Future, 2023
How can two-year colleges ensure that all students can access quality career navigation opportunities that inform their studies and position them for meaningful, family-sustaining work? That is the challenge being addressed at Boston's Bunker Hill Community College through a college-wide initiative known as Ethnographies of Work (EoW). The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Program Implementation, Career Development
Myles, Colleen C.; Baltzly, Vaughn Bryan – Geography Teacher, 2021
The study abroad program described in this article aims to create an integrated learning experience by pairing the geographer's sense (and appreciation) of place and space with the environmental ethicist's dedication to (and interrogation of the practice of) valuing and preserving places and spaces--both of which are explored through the lens of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Study Abroad, Geography Instruction, Ethical Instruction
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Hadden, M. Kyle; Zaino, Angela M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The Pre-College Summer Program at the University of Connecticut is designed to introduce upper-level high school students (rising juniors and seniors) to college life by allowing them to live on campus for a week while taking a college-level course. Within the context of this program, we developed a class designed to introduce high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Program Length, Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology
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Hill, Kimberley M. – Psychology Teaching Review, 2017
Psychology is a valuable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) discipline, but one which could do far more at communicating its value to the wider public. This paper discusses how popular initiatives, such as "The University of Northampton's STEM Champions" programme, enhance psychology's STEM membership, while…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Psychology, College Programs, Community Involvement
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Ritchie, Laura – Open Praxis, 2018
A successful international learning initiative focusing on student agency began with a link facilitating OE-enhanced teaching between a UK university and a US high school class. It became an international trip organised and funded by five UK students and their teacher who travelled to California, teaching and performing music across formal and…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development, Teacher Role
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Weller, Nicole Maki; Saam, Julie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Experiential-learning provides opportunities for students that feature a variety of highimpact practices including first-year seminars, internships, community learning, collaborative projects, and capstone seminars. To offer these high-impact practices for students, faculty from across disciplines and majors must be willing to incorporate these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Experiential Learning, First Year Seminars, General Education
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Agnew, Deborah; Pill, Shane; Orrell, Janice – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
This paper applies a conceptual model for work-integrated learning (WIL) in a multidisciplinary sports degree program. Two examples of WIL in sport will be used to illustrate how the conceptual WIL model is being operationalized. The implications for practice are that curriculum design must recognize a highly flexible approach to the nature of…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Athletics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Models
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Kraus, Joe – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015
Not every student has done honors work in the humanities, but all students experience research at a human level that necessarily recalls the work of the humanities. This article describes how Joe Kraus, a professor of literature at the University of Scranton, was inspired to see applied humanities in stories of human experiences, which helped him…
Descriptors: Humanities, Imagination, Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Rios-Gutierrez, Fernando; Alba-Flores, Rocio – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
This work describes the educational experiences gained teaching the Senior Design I & II courses, a senior level, two-semester sequence in the Electrical Engineering (EE) program at Georgia Southern University (GSU). In particular, the authors present their experiences in using robotics as the main area to develop the capstone senior design,…
Descriptors: Robotics, Design, Educational Experience, Engineering Education
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Alger, Jonathan – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015
Jonathan Alger, president of James Madison University, reflects on his experience as a student who searched for an honors program in which it was "cool" for students to develop close mentoring relationships with faculty and where students were encouraged to seek both breadth and depth in their education. He realized he was seeking a…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Mentors, Teacher Student Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016
The need that emerged in Development Studies to trespass across disciplinary boundaries is discussed. An interdisciplinary characterization of Human Sustainable Development is sketched. Some attempts at the University of the Republic in Uruguay to foster related work that connects sciences and natural sciences are briefly described. This work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Institutional Advancement, Institutional Characteristics
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Sherchan, Samendra; Pasha, Fayzul; Weinman, Beth; Nelson, Fred L.; Sharma, Florence C.; Therkelsen, Jes; Drexler, David – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2016
In this article we will describe the development of an interdisciplinary general education course focusing on water. As part of a faculty cohort charged with teaching and studying this topic, we considered a number of projects, including community outreach, teacher professional development, and collaborative research. We decided on an…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Water, Teacher Collaboration, Teamwork
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Manuel, Jeffrey T.; P. Schunke, Matthew – College Teaching, 2016
This article describes a unique interdisciplinary course on social media and the self developed and taught by the authors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The article describes challenges facing humanities faculty who wish to teach on topics with high societal currency and student interest. Current research into humanistic approaches…
Descriptors: Social Media, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Networks, Feedback (Response)
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Roberts, Lia K.; Deprele, Sylvine; Inrig, Stephen J.; Nogaj, Luiza A. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
An interdisciplinary undergraduate research program with international summer fieldwork at Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles trains undergraduates in research methodologies (cancer laboratory techniques, cross-cultural survey research, and policy analysis); collects fieldwork data in global settings and the United States; and compares,…
Descriptors: Research Training, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
Pool, Robert – National Academies Press, 2016
On February 16, 2016, the National Academy of Engineering held a forum to discuss proposed changes to criteria used by ABET (formerly the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) to accredit engineering programs in colleges and universities around the world. The Forum on Proposed Revisions to ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Accreditation (Institutions), College Programs, Outcomes of Education
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