Curriculum of Connection...Tools for Talking Across Differences

Dr. Paula Johnson, president of Wellesley, authored an interesting and important article for the Boston Globe on September 6, 2019, "Speaking with the enemy 101."  

Johnson writes about the need for a Curriculum of Connection and describes higher education's role in providing students "...with the tools they need to talk across difference — politics, race, economic class, and the myriad other fault lines of 21st century life. To prepare them to “talk to people back home” — as well as far beyond."

Guilford Edge: Curricular Change at Guilford College

Inside Higher Ed posted an interesting article by Colleen Flaherty on July 2, 2019, "Guilford's Gamble: Guilford College is changing the way it does most everything in an effort to stem its enrollment decline. But officials say it is also leaning in to its mission."

Flaherty describes a new curriculum known as the Guilford Edge that will include Initiate, an intensive three-week experience for first-year students and Collaborative Quest, where "...students, with the help of nonfaculty advisers, or "guides," design a sequence of courses to help them explore their interests."

You can also read more about the changes in "Guilford to Launch Game-Changing Educational Experience."