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Catrina, Florin; Fortmann, Charles; Hyslop, Alison G.; Lazrus, Paula Kay; Rosso, Richard – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2020
This project report presents a multidisciplinary Faculty Learning Community model to foster civic engagement in STEM classes. It focused on first-year Chemistry, Math, and Scientific Inquiry courses and incorporated Academic Service Learning in a project to build solar cell phone chargers for a school in Puerto Rico recovering from the effects of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, STEM Education
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Rank, Allison D.; Mushtare, Rebecca; Tylock, Angela R.; Huynh, Christy – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
During the 2016 election season, the authors--a collection of staff, faculty, and students at a rural, four-year comprehensive college--piloted a new format for a student-driven, campus-wide, nonpartisan voter mobilization campaign anchored in a political science course and supported by a credit-bearing internship and advanced graphic design…
Descriptors: Voting, Interdisciplinary Approach, Service Learning, Program Implementation
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education