Piloting New 教师-Driven Ideas: HonorsX and Interdisciplinary Studies Minor

发送日期:2022年3月18日

发件人:文森特·J. 德尔·卡西诺., Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

亲爱的同事们,

在 Fall of 2020, I asked a group of faculty, staff, and students to come together to think about new ideas related to honors education. 被称为(联合国)荣誉工作队， that group came up with a number of ideas, which were refined over the summer of 2021.

From that initial work, a subgroup of the Task Force put together a plan - a new Interdisciplinary Studies Minor that would serve rising juniors and transfer students. 这个辅修是 旨在补充校园内的其他程序. 这个小调的结果 是把它安置在一个新的HonorsX项目中. 

As the minor was weaving its way through the various machinations of the shared governance and review process, I asked the group of faculty if they wanted to do something experimental 明年. And, so, we have decided to launch a small pilot - 25 to 30 students - to test some of 的想法 that came from this process. 

We are now looking for a small group of students with interest in this pilot. 在 meantime, I learned today that the new Interdisciplinary Studies Minor is being routed 给我最后的批准. This is exciting because it means that students in the pilot may have an option to complete this minor after they have completed the nine-unit 明年的顺序.

The ideas for this program rests with the faculty, staff, and students that generated 的想法. My job has been and continues to be to provide a platform for their innovation 和创造力. If you have an interest in learning more, you can check out some of 这些想法将被检验 在这里.

I have asked Ruma Chopra, Professor of History, to continue to take the lead on this 项目. 

欢呼,
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