Table of Contents


Dedication

Membership

Acknowledgements

Preface

An Overview

The University as Ecosystem

An Academic Bill of Rights

Ten Ways to Change Undergraduate Education

  1. Make Research-Based Learning the Standard
  2. Construct an Inquiry-Based Freshman Year
  3. Build on the Freshman Foundation

  4. Remove Barriers to Interdisciplinary Education
  5. Link Communication Skills and Course Work
  6. Use Information Technology Creatively

  7. Culminate with a Capstone Experience
  8. Educate Graduate Students as Apprentice Teachers
  9. Change Faculty Reward Systems
  10. Cultivate a Sense of Community


Conclusion

Appendices
  1. American Research Universities
  2. Membership of the Boyer Commission

To receive a hard copy of the Report please contact Mary Leming at mleming@notes.cc.sunysb.edu or telephone 631-632-6265.

Download the Boyer Commission Report text file here. (123KB)

©1998 Shirley Strum Kenny - State University of New York at Stony Brook


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