FIPSE Grant
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Welcome to the website for the Roanoke College FIPSE grant, "Preparing Faculty for Creating Integrative Learning Experiences." This grant will enable us to implement faculty development programs that will support a strongly integrative curriculum.
The focus of the FIPSE grant also overlaps to some degree the Teagle grant received by Roanoke College (along with four other liberal arts institutions) to assess the value added by programs of intense student-faculty interaction. Both grant projects are directed toward enhancing and assessing students' integrative and intentional learning.
Having received the grant in October 2006, we are making strides on a number of fronts. We have gathered baseline data on integration from faculty and students, created assessment instruments and protocols, developed a faculty retreat for designing courses around learning outcomes, and gathered assessment data from pilot projects related to the upcoming revised general education curriculum. These projects include a first-year seminar integrating orientation and advising and several different collaborative teaching structures.
This site describes the project's initiatives, activities, and assessment results. Also included are various faculty development tools and assessment instruments.
These documents describe the grant project itself:
"We seldom tell [students] what thinking means; we seldom tell them it is just putting this and that together; it is just saying one thing in terms of another. To tell them is to set their feet on the first rung of a ladder the top of which sticks through the sky." Robert Frost
View a photo gallery of recent workshops.
This project is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE).
