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Introduction
Principals in technology across the curriculum programs from five institutions gathered at George Mason University in May 2005 to consider the varying approaches they had made.(2) The five institutions -- Claremont McKenna College, DePauw University, George Mason University, North Carolina State University, and The University of Massachusetts Amherst, differ as to size, mission, and organization.(3)
In brief, Claremont McKenna, Claremont, Calif., and DePauw, Greencastle, Ind., both are exclusively undergraduate, four-year baccalaureate institutions, whose students are primarily full-time and four-year matriculates, in institutions that are more selective, with few transfers in. Both are small, highly residential campuses; and private, not-for-profit.
The three other institutions are each public universities. George Mason, the youngest of the three, is a comprehensive doctoral granting institution with “high” research activity, under the Carnegie guidelines. North Carolina State has “very high” research activity with doctoral education focused primarily in science, technology and mathematics (STEM) fields. The University of Massachusetts Amherst, like George Mason, is a comprehensive doctoral granting institution; like North Carolina State, with “very high” research activity in STEM fields, but in non-STEM fields, as well. All three have substantial undergraduate enrollments; George Mason’s tend to be less residential than the other two.
The five institutions are compared as to the interim institutional categories of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Figure 1 (4).
To better compare the five programs, we review each as to its origins and direction, mission, orientation to the NRC FITness report as to teaching and research, and overall campus outcomes.(5)
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- Introduction
- Origins and Direction
- The FITness Report
- Teaching and Research - Claremont-McKenna College
- Teaching and Research - De Pauw University
- Teaching and Research - George Mason University and North Carolina State University
- Teaching and Research - University of Massachusetts
- Approaches and Outcomes
- Influence on Institutions
- Conclusions
- References
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