Picture this: It’s your first day as a graduate student instructor. You’re armed with a stack of syllabi, a mind full of academic theories and the unshakable feeling that you might be in way over your ...

It is argued that this approach to teaching results in a creativity deficit in students (cf. Beghetto & Kaufman 2010). Coming from a different education model into an interdisciplinary degree program ...

The programs offered by universities will always dictate the limits of their students' education. In the matrix of divided schools and colleges, this often results in a student becoming rigidly ...

“Where are we?” is the sentence that opens Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education: From Abstract to the Quotidian (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Together, the essays in the ...

At Willamette University, interdisciplinary learning is at the core of our academic philosophy. Every program we offer integrates elements from various disciplines, allowing students to develop a well ...

It’s no secret that the new faculty experience in higher education is rather fraught. Mounting pressures for professional publication, navigating the tricky waters of fluctuating publisher resources, ...

In the clever changing landscape of creative industries, the lines between disciplines are increasingly blurred. The rapid pace of change in technology, culture, and industry has left higher education ...

This post was updated May 28 at 10:18 p.m. I have grown amused observing people’s reactions when I tell them that I’m a public affairs student on the pre-med track. My explanation of my course of ...

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 ...