Stefani+Relles+(Education)

Continue to cultivate local and global partnerships Continue toward meaningful integration of technology and learning Continue fiscal support for interdisciplinary projects
 * What to keep**
 * Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI)
 * Asia Pacific Rim International Study Experience (APRISE)
 * MAT@USC program
 * Collegeology Games

Increase college access for first generation students in Los Angeles Improve opportunities for interdisciplinarity
 * What to change**
 * Expand the Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) to include more LAUSD schools
 * Cross-list interdisciplinary courses in the USC schedule of classes
 * Expand independent study/directed reading policies to encourage applied scholarship and/or action-based research projects for doctoral students
 * Include multipurpose workspaces in new and refurbished building plans

Increase degree completion for first generation students in Los Angeles Amplify visibility for interdisciplinary work with the higher education system
 * What to aim for**
 * Expand student affairs support for first generation students
 * Sponsor a peer-reviewed publication that focuses on interdisciplinary innovation
 * Initiate USC Graduate School Fellowships and Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Innovation

Powerpoint slide: draft 1.0



This paper is a work in progress. Data derive from a cohort of 90 low-income, minority, first generation college students who participated in a writing remediation program during the summer of 2010.

The primary purpose of this paper is to introduce a higher education policy audience to a conceptualization of college writing that includes digital literacies. This objective is, needless to say, treacherously interdisciplinary. Higher education policy researchers are peculiarly technologically ignorant (and possible adverse). Communications scholars may be disappointed by the simplification of their theoretical territory to accommodate policy studies. I try to play the role of mediator.

Question, comments, concerns are welcome.

[|Technology and College Readiness_COMM620.docx]

10/15/2011:

Progress, not perfection: A revised draft below...



Note: I've added my advisor as 2nd author because... Interdisciplinarity is a team sport, and there is plenty of authorship to go around...

Interdisciplinary Ethics: A Fairytale: http://portal.sliderocket.com/APQNP/FairyTale_COMM620