Undergraduate Education

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

• A call to reinvent liberal arts education: Liz Coleman on TED.com (a vision of a “new” liberal arts curriculum)
• BenningtonCurriculumNewLiberalArts20074.pdf (same as above as a white paper)
• http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/EssentialOutcomes_Chart.pdf (components of the AAC&U’s vision of liberal learning)
• http://www.ucol.uncc.edu/gened/requirements.htm (UNC Charlotte’s General Education requirements)
• http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/GlobalCentury_ExecSum_3.pdf

Graduate Education / Creation of Knowledge

• http://www.cgsnet.org/portals/0/pdf/GR_GradEdAmComp_0407.pdf (“Graduate Education:  The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation,” Council of Graduate Schools, 2007)
• http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4935 (“Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers,” 1995)
• http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/theorizing.html, Serendip, 2004. (on interdisciplinarity)
• Rising Above the Gathering Storm executive summary.pdf (Widely-read 2007 report, recommending initiatives to enhance American competitiveness in science and technology)

Community engagement

CarnegieApplication UNC Charlotte.pdf (UNC Charlotte’s application to the Carnegie Foundation)

http://publicrelations.uncc.edu/default.asp?id=15&objId=473 (UNC Charlotte’s news release, re:  Carnegie classification as an engaged campus)

Tomorrow:  UNC Tomorrow reports from the UNC Charlotte campus

http://www.imaginingamerica.org/TTI/TTI_FINAL.pdf (knowledge creation in the humanities, public engagement, tenure policies)

John Porter, a former Republican congressman now with Research America, gave an interesting keynote speech at a “Two Cultures” symposium at the New York Academy of Science in May