Information

Events

AAC&U 2016 General Education and Assessment. February 18, 2016 to February 20, 2016. New Orleans Marriott

Compliance

The General Education Transfer Policy and Implementation Guidelines. (2012) KY Council on Postsecondary Education.

Resource Manual for SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation.  (2012)

Interpretation of Core Requirement 2.7.3 (General Education). Interpretations to the Principles of Accreditation. Approved by the SACSCOC Board of Trustees in June 2009.

NKU

Results from the NKU Academic Innovation Town Hall meeting in 2014. Shared Dropbox folder.

Strategic Plan for NKU Academic Innovation (May 2014)

Transdisciplinarity: Recommendations of the NKU task force on definitions and dashboard metrics – Bill Attenweiler, Jon Garon, Kevin Kirby, and Alar Lipping – as reviewed by the Deans’ Council on 12/12/13.

Conversations on Transdisciplinarity. Some recurring points from the task forces, NKU, 2013 - 2014.

Health Innovation Center: Internal Advisory Committee Report.

Other

The Heart of the Matter. The American Academy of Arts and Science.

Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) is a national advocacy, campus action, and research initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first century liberal education—for individuals and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.

LEAP: Essential Learning Outcomes.

LEAP: High-Impact Educational Practices.

LEAP: Principles of Excellence.

General Education Maps and Markers (GEMs): Designing Meaningful Pathways to Student Achievement. AAC&U Launches Initiatives to Advance Transformative Change in General Education and Student Learning. More.

Degree Qualifications Profile by Cliff Adelman, Peter Ewell, Paul Gaston, Carol Geary Schneider. Lumina Foundation, NILOA (2014). A learning-centered framework for what college graduates should know and be able to do to earn the associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree.

The Degree Qualifications Profile: What It Is and Why We Need It Now by Natasha Jankowski, Pat Hutchings, Peter Ewell, Jillian Kinzie and George Kuh. Change. November-December 2013.

Joint appointments and MOUs. Making Interdisciplinarity Possible. by Elizabeth H. Simmons and Michael P. Nelson. IHE August 19, 2011.

“Special Issue: Understanding Interdisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education.” Holley, Karri A. ASHE Higher Education Report 35.2 (2009): 1-131.

Portfolio of Resources and Final Report from the Interdisciplinary Committee at the University of Denver.

A call to reinvent liberal arts education. Liz Coleman, TED Talk. “Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.”

Transdisciplinarity at the Global Education Magazine. “Global Education Magazine aims to disseminate creative, innovative and transversal educational experiences and ideas from the formal ambit, non formal and informal, to break with the existing positivist and technocratic paradigms of the past that reduce our students in passive citizens and a-critical consumers, because we have as educational horizon the freedom and the emancipation of human beings in any case and corner of the world.”

Core Terms in Transdisciplinary Research by Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn.

Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2004). Facilitating interdisciplinary research. National Academies. Washington: National Academy Press, p. 2.

Future Work Skills 2020 by Fred Zimny at Future Work Skills2020 Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix Research Institute.

Resources for Interdisciplinary Studies by Julie Thompson Klein in Change Magazine, March/April 2006.

Network for Transdisciplinary Research.

Binghamton makes a grant available for Inter/Transdisciplinary Courses.

Task Force on Interdisciplinary Programs at Fort Lewis College offers a definition of transdisciplinarity.

Scoop.it: Transdisciplinarity in Collaborative Virtual Environments. Curated by Barbara Truman.

“Transdisciplinarity” entry at Wikipedia.

The International Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET) aims to develop research in a new scientific and cultural approach - the transdisciplinarity - whose aim is to lay bare the nature and characteristics of the flow of information circulating between the various branches of knowledge.

The purposes of multi-/inter-/transdisciplnary programs from Ft. Lewis.

Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Sustainability Education: Institutional and Intragroup Challenges and Opportunities Presented on Oct. 7, 2013, at the AASHE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tina Lynn Evans.

The 2013 Lumina Study of the American Public's Opinion of Higher Education and U.S. Business Leaders Poll on Higher Education. What America Needs to Know About Higher Education Redesign.

“…'transdisciplinarity' refers to the highest level of integrated study, that which proposes the unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the disciplinary perspectives and points toward our potential to think in terms of frameworks, concepts, techniques, and vocabulary that we have not yet imagined.” - Julie A. Buckler in Towards A New Model of General Education at Harvard College.

A model for transformation: A transdisciplinary approach to disseminating good practice in blended learning in a science faculty.

Association for Integrative Studies.