2007 Press Releases
UCC selected by the Carnegie Foundation for New Programme to Improve Graduate Education
The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(CASTL) has selected 87 higher education institutions or networks of
institutions around the world to participate in a program to improve
undergraduate and graduate education. University College Cork
(UCC) is proud to announce that it is one of the institutions selected
under the Graduate Education theme, and that UCC has been invited to
act as the co-ordinating institution for this theme.
In welcoming UCC's nomination as co-ordinating institution for the
CASTL Graduate Education theme, Professor John O'Halloran, Chair of
UCC's Academic Council's Graduate Studies Committee said: "The
next three years will be a crucial period for the development of
graduate education in UCC and in Ireland, given the government's target
to double graduate enrolment within the next decade. Dr. Alan Kelly,
Dean of Graduate studies added: UCC is particularly pleased to be
involved in this important international program at this key period,
and is determined to optimise the opportunities provided by
collaborating with these prestigious international institutions".
The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program is a three year partnership
between the Carnegie Foundation and selected colleges, universities and
higher education organisations with a strong commitment to the careful
examination of teaching and learning. Participants were selected
for their ability and influence to work in 12 areas, ranging from
assessment and accountability to undergraduate research and graduate
education.
"Through this program, Carnegie acknowledges the important
contributions of institutional leaders and advocates, while encouraging
the development of new forms and structures supporting scholarly
investigation into teaching and learning" said CASTL director, Richard
Gale.
All selected institutions have developed and implemented innovative
strategies to strengthen teaching and improve student learning in their
own campuses. Through participation in the Carnegie program, they
will be expected to collaborate with other institutions to further
examine that work and to expand activities in these same areas.
The other institutions involved in the Graduate Education theme are:
- The Association of American Geographers
- Central European University, Budapest
- Center for the Integration of Research and Teaching and Learning co-ordinated by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (The CIRTL network includes Howard University, Washington DC; Michigan State University; Penn State University; University of Colorado at Boulder; University of Wisconsin at Madison)
- Howard University, Washington DC
- Michigan State University
- Rutgers University, New Jersey.
(Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an Act of the (US) Congress, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research centre with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of the teacher." The Foundation, located in Stanford, California, fulfils this mission through its contribution to improvements in education policy and practice).
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