Every Thursday morning, I am overwhelmed by apprehension as I head to my staff meeting. It’s not because I have to drag my worn body out of my cozy bed to get there by 7 a.m. or because I can’t play ...

People sometimes talk about the need to bring academic disciplines together to tackle complex societal problems. It makes sense. Different disciplines bring different knowledge and methodological ...

During my fifth year of teaching, my principal asked me to move from the 8th grade to the 6th grade. I suddenly became more aware of the range of students within a middle school: Some students still ...

Michigan Tech must play a role in developing both the tools and the understanding needed to build a sustainable future. Sustainable technologies will require complementary, integrated contributions ...

As an educational approach, interdisciplinary integration offers many potential benefits (see Chapters 6 and 7), but implementing integrative curricula faces possible barriers at multiple levels, from ...

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway will host a dinner on Dec. 11 to honor the recipients of the annual Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching. The award was established to recognize and ...

The ISLL houses two types of courses. The “iBC: integrated Biology and Chemistry” course series delivers interdisciplinary instruction for a broad population of life science majors. Interdisciplinary ...

UC Santa Cruz is moving forward with preliminary design for a new building that will accommodate the undergraduate teaching programs currently held in Thimann Laboratories, following approval from the ...

As new technologies change the way students think and learn, there is an ever-increasing need for instruction that supports real-world problem solving and an integration of ideas across disciplines.

The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...