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"In tracing the history of American higher education, we find much to be proud of, but we also see over the past few decades a growing tension between the broad and integrated education commonly referred to as liberal education and the increasing specialization in higher education as individual disciplines and administrative structures drive a fragmentation of curricula. This tension between broad, integrated education and specialized, disciplinary studies has heightened during periods of economic challenge, particularly since the Great Recession that began in 2008"--Preface.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Challenges And Opportunities For Integrating Established Disciplines In Higher Education
• Charge to the Committee
• Limits of Acronyms
• Organization of the Report
• 2. Higher Education And The Demands Of The Twenty-First Century
• Brief Historical Overview of Higher Education in the United States
• Disciplinary Integration and Issues of Equity and Diversity in Higher Education
• Disciplinary Segregation of Higher Education
• Need for Graduates to Be Adaptable, Lifelong Learners
• Integration and Human Learning
• There Is Broad Agreement Between Employers and Institutions of Higher Education on Certain Student Learning Goals
• What Do Students Want?
• Integration and the Innovation Economy
• Correlation Between Participation in the Arts and the Advancement of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
• Shifting Ground in Higher Education
• 3. What Is Integration?
• Disciplinary Context
• Disciplines Defined
• Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Integration
• Integration in the Curriculum

• Studies of Integrative Experiences Do Not Always Involve the Integration of the Humanities, Arts, and STEMM
• What Is Integrative Learning?
• 4. Challenges Of Assessing The Impact Of Integration In Higher Education On Students
• Evidence-based Decision Making in Real-World Contexts
• Challenges and Limitations of Research on Integration
• Path Ahead
• 5. Understanding And Overcoming The Barriers To Integration In Higher Education
• Institutional Barriers to Integration in Higher Education
• Overcoming the Barriers to Integration in Higher Education
• Existing Practices Aimed at Overcoming Common Barriers to Integration
• 6. Effects Of Integration On Students At The Undergraduate Level
• Committee's Approach
• Does the Direction of the Integration Matter?
• Integration of the Arts and Humanities into the Academic Programs of Undergraduate Students Majoring in STEM
• Exposure to the Arts Can Support Success in STEM Through the Development of Visio-Spatial Skills
• Integration of STEM into the Academic Programs of Undergraduate Students Majoring in the Arts and Humanities
• Importance of Moving from Anecdote to Evaluation
• Key Insights from a "Dear Colleague" Letter
• Impact of Integration on Groups Underrepresented in the Sciences and Engineering
• Summary of the Evidence from Undergraduate and Programs and Courses
• 7. Integration In Graduate And Medical Education
• Federal Agencies and Foundations Have Supported Integrative Graduate Education
• Most of the Research Has Focused on Integration in Graduate Education Between Similar Disciplines
• Graduate Education in Established Interdisciplinary Fields
• Impact of Graduate Programs That Integrate the Humanities, Arts, and STEMM
• What Can We Learn About Promising Practices for Integration Between Similar Disciplines That Could Apply to the Integration of the Humanities, Arts, and STEMM
• Summary of Evidence on Integration in Graduate Education
• Integration in Medical Education
• Integrating Medicine into the Arts and Humanities
• Summary of Evidence on Integration in Medical Education
• 8. Findings And Recommendations
• Findings
• Recommendations
• EPILOGUE
• REFERENCES
• APPENDIXES
• I. Committee and Staff Biographies
• II. Statement of Task.

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Author/Creator:

National Academies of Sciences, Engiineering, and Medicine (U.S.) > Committee on Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , issuing body

Contributors:

Skorton, David J. , editor

Bear, Ashley , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The integration of the humanities and arts with sciences, engineering, and medicine in higher education: branches from the same tree [National Academies of Sciences, Engiineering, and Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education : Branches from the Same Tree [National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine] (Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,c2018 — ISBN 9780309470612)

Related Series:

Consensus study report

Alternate Titles:

Branches from the same tree

Subjects:

Education, Higher — Aims and objectives — United States

Educational change — United States

Universities and colleges — United States — Planning

Medicine and the humanities — United States

Science and the humanities — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed July 7, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

LA227.4 .N37 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780309470629 (electronic bk.)
0309470625 (electronic bk.)
9780309470612 [Invalid]
0309470617 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1038789661

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5434886 (source: MiAaPQ)
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