CIEL Consortium of Innovative Environments for Learning Student Opportunities

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CIELConsortium of Innovative Environments
for Learning Student Opportunities
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What is CIEL?

• Growing consortium of progressive institutions
  working in close collaboration to support
  experimentation and improvement, assessment,
  sharing, refining, and disseminating best
  practices in student-centered learning.
• CIELs scope includes
• ??Learning environments and outcomes
• ??Integrated, experiential, self-reflective
  learning practices
• ??Development of student responsibility for
  learning
• ??A strong affirmation and promotion of diversity
• ??A desire for both academic flexibility and
  clarity of focus
• ??Inclusive participation in the shaping and
  governing of a campus
• ??A disposition toward risk-taking

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WHO IS CIEL?
Alverno College - Milwaukee, WI Daemen College
- Amherst, NYThe Evergreen State College -
Olympia, WA Fairhaven College - Bellingham,
WA Hampshire College - Amherst, MA Johnson C.
Smith University - Charlotte, NCNew College
of Florida - Sarasota, FLPitzer College -
Claremont, CA
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Opportunities for Students

• Student exchanges

• Participation in Foreign Study

Student Symposium
On-line Student Journal
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ALVERNO COLLEGE

• Private, Catholic womens college, serving
  approximately 2000 students
• Areas of Distinction include
• Electronic portfolio process
• Ability-based curriculum and assessment process
  in eight ability areas
• Communication
• Analysis
• Problem Solving
• Valuing in decision making
• Social Interaction
• Developing a Global Perspective
• Effective Citizenship
• Aesthetic Engagement

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DAEMEN COLLEGE

• Private, liberal arts college (2100 students)
  located in Amherst, New York
• Areas of Distinction include
• Strong service learning programs
• Special emphasis in
• strong allied health programs, including
• interdisciplinary research opportunities in wound
  therapy
• specialized study in Chinese medicine/wound
  therapy research
• early childhood special education
• graphic design based in the arts
• study in sustainable communities and civic
  engagement, including specialized study in China,
  Canada and Mexico
• summer arts based program in Florence

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EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE

• Public college (4000 students) - the largest of
  the CIEL schools.
• Programs in Olympia, Tacoma and six reservation
  sites
• Areas of Distinction include
• Narrative evaluations
• Year-long interdisciplinary learning communities
• Strong curriculum in a variety of areas,
  including
• Environmental studies (especially alternative
  agriculture, forestry, natural history
  and marine studies)
• Physical science
• Political economy
• Native studies
• Humanities including a half dozen
• year-long language/culture/history programs

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FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE at WWU

• Interdisciplinary college (500 students) -
  embedded in a large public university.
• Areas of Distinction include
• Student self-designed degrees
• Student engagement in research
• Reflective learning environment
• Issue oriented curriculum, emphasizing social
  justice, community and self-direction, including
• Seabirds
• Acoustic biology
• Screenwriting
• Indigenous Peoples
• Nature writing
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Law and Diversity Program
• Cross-cultural aspects of depression

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HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

• Private, liberal arts institution with approx.
  1250 students in Amherst, MA
• Member of Five-College Consortium
• Areas of Distinction include
• Self-initiated, individual programs of study
  negotiated with faculty mentors
• Students active participation in original
  research
• Multidisciplinary, multicultural curriculum
  including
• Cognitive sciences
• Political economy
• Media and communication
• Natural Science
• Arts and social change
• Third world and border studies

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Johnson C. Smith University

• Private historically black college (1500
  students) now serving a diverse group of students
• Newest member of CIEL.
• Areas of Distinction include
• Community health
• Multicultural perspectives
• African-American and Africana Studies
• University wide laptop program
• wired campus

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NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA

• A Florida Honors College in the public university
  system with 700 students and a student-faculty
  ratio of 111.
• Areas of Distinction include
• Student designed contracts describing the
  students academic activities and goals for the
  semester
• Narrative evaluations
• Strong science and marine science programs
• Strong emphasis on undergraduate research-all
  students complete
• a senior thesis in their final year

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PITZER COLLEGE

• Private college in the Claremont College group
  (950 students).
• Students and faculty share resources and
  cross-register with the other Claremont campuses.
• Areas of Distinction include
• Emphasis on social justice community
  involvement.
• interdisciplinary, research based and team taught
  courses in psychology, media studies,
  neuroscience, and environmental studies.
• Foreign study programs in
• Botswana
• China
• Ecuador - University-Based
• Ecuador - Intensive Language
• Italy
• Nepal
• Darjeeling, India

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STUDENT EXCHANGES

• Opportunity to study at any one of the
  participating colleges or universities
  for a term while
  paying home campus tuition
• Develop a rich comparative perspective
• Take advantage of curricular opportunities and
  faculty expertise not present on the home campus,
  Live in a different geographical region
• Experience vastly different campus cultures and
  different political and socio-economic milieus
• Study abroad programs are included in the
  agreement.

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FOREIGN STUDY

• Programs available around the world through the
  various member institutions, from Botswana to
  Costa Rica, from Italy to India. (Some of these
  programs require additional fees.)

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STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

• Students from all campuses share their research
  and inquiry projects.
• 1ST Annual Symposium held at New College in
  Sarasota, FL. This years Symposium will be held
  at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.

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ON-LINE JOURNAL

• Produced annually from submissions by each of the
  member institutions Fiction, Non-Fiction,
  Poetry, and Art Photography.

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SOME POTENTIAL FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES THAT MIGHT
BENEFIT STUDENTS

• Collaboration of faculty from one or more members
  of faculty from any of the CIEL schools, for
  course development and/or course delivery.
• Co-teaching students using distance learning, or
  by traveling to another campus, or meeting in a
  field location.
• Faculty from other CIEL sites as visiting
  faculty.
• Collaborating on foreign study at varied
  international locations), depending on
  availability.
• Research opportunities with any of the CIEL
  faculty who have common interests and goals.

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IN CONCLUSION

• Students benefit in varied ways
• Exchanges and foreign study
• Symposium
• Connection with others in
• your areas of study
• On-line journal publication opportunities
• Students are an important element of CIEL
  initiatives and governance.
• Present their academic work to peers throughout
  the consortium
• Participate in planning CIEL initiatives
• WELCOME
• TO CIEL!

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CIELS WEB ADDRESS

• http//www.cielearn.org
• Please visit the site and familiarize yourself
  with the various schools, their faculty, and
  areas in which they specialize. The
  opportunities are open and awaiting your interest
  and imagination.