Tag: interdisciplinarity
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New Book on Interdisciplinarity
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UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller sent the following message via e-mail to employees on Thursday, September 10, 2015: Dear Colleagues, I want to draw your attention to a new book about Interdisciplinarity in the American academy. The book is titled Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century by Harvey Graff (Johns Hopkins University Press).…
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Austin’s Notes on Problem-Focused Interdisciplinary Education
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UW-Green Bay Associate Professor Andrew Austin, contributed to the discussion of interdisciplinarity by submitting his Notes on Problem-Focused Interdisciplinary Education. The discussion began with Chancellor Miller’s essay Thoughts on Interdisciplinarity posted here this past January and continued with a paper issued in response by UW-Green Bay Secretary of the Faculty and Staff Cliff Abbott a…
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SOFAS Response on Interdisciplinarity
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Cliff Abbott, UW-Green Bay Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff, issued an paper in response to Chancellor Miller’s essay Thoughts on Interdisciplinarity posted here last week. Prof. Abbott opens his remarks as follows…
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Essay: ‘Thoughts on Interdisciplinary’
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Since arriving at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as Chancellor in August 2015, Gary L. Miller has said the University’s commitment to the ideals of interdisciplinarity, a founding principle, is both one of institution’s most important assets and potentially one of the strongest inertial forces to progress. In this essay, he reflects on higher learning,…