Online Resources
Studies, Reports, and Articles Concerning Undergraduate Education
Comprehensive Reports
- The Boyer Commission Report—the most influential blueprint and widely cited document pertaining to the reinvention of undergraduate education (1997)
- Boyer Commission Follow-Up Report (2000)
- Teagle Foundation Report: "The Values of the Open Curriculum" (2006)
- The Spellings Report—The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education (2006)
- Spotlight on Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Delaware)
- Spotlight on First-Year Experience (Northwestern, UCLA, Maryland, Cornell, Ohio)
- American Council on Education: Facing American Undergraduate Education (2006)
- College Learning for the New Global Century (AACU, 2008)
- Harvard University, Task Force Report on the Arts (2008)
Selected Articles dealing with Undergraduate Education
"Welcome Freshmen: Have an iPod" (NYT, 2008), on the unstoppable use of mobile technology in the classroom
"The Disadvantages of an Elite Education" (American Scholar, 2008)
"No Gr_du_te Left Behind" (NYT, 2007), on outcomes and accountability in higher education
"Don't Worry, be Students" (NYT, 2007), useful data from Penn, Reed, and Michigan students
"Give Students a Compass: College Learning, General Education, and Student Success (AACU, 2008) NEW
Entrepreneurship in Undergraduate Education NEW
"Dreamers and Doers / 23 Student Innovations" (NYT, 2008)
BU Undergraduate Advising Report
Institutional Reports on Undergraduate Education
- The Boston University Strategic Plan, “Choosing to Be Great” (2007)
- University of Michigan President's Commission on the Undergraduate Experience (2001)
- MIT: Report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Education Commons (2006)
- Rand Report on The Future of Public Undergraduate Education in California (1996)
- Ohio State Report on Undergraduate Education (2005)
- Johns Hopkins Commission on Undergraduate Education Final Report (2003)
- University of Toledo Mass Customization in Higher Education (2008)
- Rutgers: Transforming Undergraduate Education (2004-2006)
- Brown: The Curriculum at Forty: A Plan for Strengthening the Undergraduate Experience at Brown (2008) NEW
- UNC-Chapel Hill: Difficult Dialogues Project, an innovative cluster-course sequence NEW
Reports and Articles on Undergraduate Science and Engineering
- "At M.I.T., Large [Physics] Lectures are Going the Way of the Blackboard" (NYT, 2009) NEW
- Harvard University Report on “Enhancing Science and Engineering at Harvard” (2006)
- Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CSMEE, 1999)
- Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists (2003)
- "When non-engineers think about engineering" (NYT, 2007)
- [What employers want from engineering graduates] (1995)
- Using clickers in organic chemistry (ppt)
