Ep. 99: Designing Courseware to Produce Equitable Outcomes
Early insights from new "gateway" courses in chemistry and statistics aimed at closing attainment gaps for underrepresented students.
Many employers and critics of higher education think many colleges and universities focus too little on ensuring that their graduates thrive after they leave, and favor holding institutions accountable for how their students fare in the job market. That’s unpalatable to a lot of academics, who view a college education as about more than how much you earn.
The guests in this week's episode, Wake Forest University’s Andy Chan and Christine Cruzvergara of Handshake, endorse the view that colleges and universities should be collecting and sharing data about how well they are preparing students for success in the workplace, given that that’s the primary reason many students go to college.
But the set of common metrics they propose colleges use to measure their own performance is broad, and it includes such data as how much institutions expose students to experiential learning in college to graduates’ satisfaction with their jobs once they leave.
Hosted by Inside Higher Ed Co-founder and Editor Doug Lederman.
This episode of The Key is sponsored by D2L.
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Early insights from new "gateway" courses in chemistry and statistics aimed at closing attainment gaps for underrepresented students.
This week’s episode explores how university systems are working to improve student mobility between and among institutions.
Enjoy this bonus episode featuring a Campus interview with Stevens Institute of Technology Dean of Undergraduate Education Eve Riskin.
In this interview, Montclair State University president Jonathan Koppell talks about accessibility for minoritized groups, the power of creative communication and why he thinks universities need to own their part in the public’s diminishing trust in higher education.
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