At North Carolina State University, inquiry-guided learning offered a compelling framework for integrating the undergraduate curriculum across general education and the major. Rather than adopting a definition of inquiry-guided learning as a prescribed set of approaches, participating faculty and staff members agreed on four overarching intended…

Student learning and student development are part of a unified framework rather than separate interests to be pursued independently.

What do we learn about interdisciplinary collaboration and faculty learning from the three cases presented in Chapters Three to Five? What ideas will higher education researchers, faculty development practitioners, academic leaders, and professors want to consider?

The development of intellectually challenging and personally supportive faculty-student relationships outside of formal learning contexts is crucial to excellence in honors-level education, and can be fostered through a faculty advising and mentor program. (MSE)

Eckerd College's Academy of Senior Professionals brings together retired and semi-retired high-achieving professionals for continuing intellectual and cultural stimulation and to work singly or in groups on projects of personal and social significance. The program includes lectures, colloquia, forums, social and recreational events, and individual…

Modeled on the county medical society and bar association, the University of Pennsylvania's Academic Alliances Program brings together teachers from all levels of the educational system. Faculty members from the schools and colleges in a local area, who teach the same academic discipline, are drawn together. (Author/MLW)