Integrative Learning

CASTL Leadership Program

CASTL Institutional Leadership Program
College of San Mateo has been selected to participate the Carnegie Foundation's CASTL Institutional Leadership Program which "builds on the influential work undertaken by colleges and universities, campus centers and educational organizations, scholarly and professional societies, and CASTL Campus Program Leadership Clusters, to facilitate collaboration among institutions with demonstrated commitment to and capacity for action, inquiry and innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Participating institutions are organized to address specific themes important to the improvement of student learning, as well as the development and sustainability of a scholarship of teaching and learning."
Source Link: Carnegie Foundation - CASTL

CSM works with eight other institutions in the Liberal Education: Core Curriculum cluster.

"This group begins with the definition of liberal learning offered by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) as one of education that is ‘characterized by challenging encounters with important issues, and more a way of studying than a specific course or field of study.' The group will investigate the uses of the scholarship of teaching and learning to develop, advance, and sustain liberal learning in different institutional contexts and with different goals."

Coordinating Institution: St. Olaf College

• College of San Mateo
• Eastern Washington University
• Liverpool Hope University
• Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
• North Carolina A & T
• St. Olaf College
• St. Jerome's University
• University of Cincinnati
• University of WI Whitewater

Source Link: Liberal Education Core Curriculum

Bulletin
Carnegie and AAC&U Release Online Report to Strengthen Student Learning
"Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect," an online report based on a three-year national project involving 10 campuses working together to encourage and strengthen students' ability to pursue learning in more intentional, connected ways, contains video clips from Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman and Association of American Colleges and Universities President Carol Geary Schneider, multimedia accounts of work by each of the 10 participating campuses, essays by project staff on various strategies for fostering integrative learning, and lessons for campus change. The report was produced by Carnegie and AAC&U. Direct link to CSM's ILP July 2006 ILP Snapshot

Recommended Reading
College Learning for the New Global Century



CASTL Leadership Team

Jean Mach (primary CASTL contact) Professor of English 650-574-6353 mach@smccd.edu Dr. Jeremy Ball Professor of Philosophy 650-574-6638 balj@smccd.edu Mike Burke Professor of Mathematics 650-574-6528 burke@smccd.edu Michael Claire President 650-574-6222 clairem@smccd.edu

Dr. David Danielson Professor of Philosophy 650-574-6376 danielson@smccd.edu Dr. Susan Estes Vice-President of Instruction 650-574-6404 estes@smccd.edu Cheryl Gregory Professor of Mathematics 650-574-6307 gregory@smccd.edu