{"id":682,"date":"2015-01-13T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/cce\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2015-01-13T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:46:23","slug":"reinventing-undergraduate-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/cce\/blog\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing Undergraduate Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the biennial meeting of the Reinvention Center in Arlington, VA, along with Dean Richard Feldman<\/a> and two other colleagues from the College. The Reinvention Center is housed at Colorado State University and is a “national consortium of research universities dedicated to strengthening undergraduate education”(from their website<\/a>). It was formed in April, 2000,\u00a0as a follow-up to a report issued in 1998<\/a> by a commission convened by the Carnegie Foundation to examine the state of undergraduate education in U.S. research universities. The report, entitled, “Re-inventing Undergraduate\u00a0 Education,” is commonly referred to as the Boyer report, in honor of Ernest Boyer<\/a>, who helped to convene the Commission, whose own scholarship on education reform informed and inspired it, and who died of cancer while the Commission was meeting. The Commission’s report contained a student’s Bill of rights, and made provocative recommendations that challenged the status quo in the country’s most elite universities, as follows:<\/p>\n