Curriculum and Course Sharing

Technology links on all campuses enable students to enroll in a single course at another institution and faculty to team-teach courses across two institutions. As faculty have met their peers, and perhaps more importantly, as students have met faculty at other CIEL schools, there is more excitement about these possibilities.

The first such “exchange” developed at last fall’s annual meeting at Evergreen. A Fairhaven student interested in the Holocaust met an Alverno professor who was teaching a spring course on the subject, followed by a summer trip to death camp sites in Europe . Not only did the student enroll in the Alverno course via videoconferencing and email, she took on added responsibilities as a research and teaching assistant because she had more advanced background than the Alverno students were likely to have.

CIEL members discussing ideas after the inter-institutional meeting at New College of Florida in April 2005