In 2004, the Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE)
Initiative was created to draw together a number of discrete
long-standing programs and new projects under one organizational
umbrella. The goal of CUE is to provide students with a coherent and meaningful college experience, from the moment of admittance through to graduation. Senior administrators from each of the colleges form a CUE
Council, and together examine local and University-wide practices in
order to identify and address disjunctures, cut through bureaucracy,
and focus on the “business” of teaching and student learning.
CUE forges bonds between the colleges' Freshman Programs, Transfer
Programs, Summer Programs, Writing Across the Curriculum Programs and
Academic Support Programs, while also initiating inquiry into the
academic coherence of core curricula through the General Education
Project. In these ways, CUE makes visible and accessible the
connections between institutions, disciplines, programs, courses,
ideas, and people.
CUE is an organizational strategy, an institutional structure, a
guiding metaphor, and a promise: to provide a quality education to all
CUNY students.
Carnegie at CUNY/CASTLCUNY has been selected to take part in the Institutional Leadership Program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). The CUNY-CASTL Project brings together people, projects, and research from across the University to strengthen undergraduate education. General Education ProjectThe General Education Project, which began in January 2003, calls for CUNY's 17 undergraduate campuses to thoroughly investigate the sets of practices that constitute General Education. Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing in the Disciplines ProgramWAC/WID Coordinators and advanced doctoral students work with faculty members and undergraduates at each of the campuses to improve writing across the University. Freshman, Summer, and Transfer ProgramsThese programs provide undergraduate students with impressive first year programs, summer programs with intensive classes, and provide support services for students transferring into and between CUNY colleges. Centers for Teaching & LearningThese centers serve as intellectual hubs on the campuses, where faculty can learn new pedagogical practices, design research projects to examine their teaching, and collaborate with other faculty. |
