campus partner(s)

Virginia Wesleyan University

Davis & Elkins College

Eckerd College

Marymount University

Saint Augustine's University

Shenandoah University

and Sweet Briar College

state(s)

FL, VA, NC, WV

amount

$25,000

initiative

Faculty Planning and Curricular Coherence

award date

05.2014

project director

Timothy O'Rourke

Virginia Wesleyan College

Grant Summary

$25,000 over 7 months for a planning grant to promote curricular coherence within the partner institutions’ respective campuses. They have joined together as a learning community to plan a project that uses “high-impact” teaching practices (e.g., first-year seminars, collaborative assignments and projects, learning communities, and capstone courses) to promote curricular coherence. These high-impact practices will be tied to specific learning outcomes identified by faculty.