campus partner(s)

Virginia Wesleyan University

Davis & Elkins College

Eckerd College

and Shenandoah University

state(s)

FL,VA, WV

amount

$280,000

initiative

Faculty Planning and Curricular Coherence

award date

11.2014

project director

Timothy O'Rourke

Virginia Wesleyan College

Grant Summary

$280,000 over 30 months for the collaborating institutions to reduce course proliferation and revise current offerings to ensure greater intellectual coherence within general studies and upper-division coursework for the major. The partners intend to use the process of curricular revision as an opportunity to better integrate established high-impact practices for student learning (such as undergraduate research, writing-intensive courses, and capstone experiences), and to position students so they acquire the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and methods that will enable them to make the most of such high-impact opportunities.