K Plan for the 21st Century: Revitalizing a Fellowship in Learning
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Distinctiveness Initiative Task Force Revised (DITF-R)
Issue Date
2008-01
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Other
Language
en_US
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Abstract
The Distinctiveness Initiative Task Force (DITF)1 distributed their original set of recommendations to the
faculty of Kalamazoo College in September 2007.2 The fall quarter of 2007 was used as a listening period
in which DITF and EPC members facilitated faculty discussions and met with individual departments.
During December 2007 and January 2008, the DITF reviewed and summarized faculty feedback before
using this information to revisit and revise the original recommendations.
The proposals described in the present document are somewhat different from the original
recommendations, and this is a direct result of the faculty feedback compiled in fall 2007. Our present
recommendations represent a renewed commitment to the central role of rigorous academics,
experiential learning, and study abroad to a distinctive K education. Many of our proposed changes are
designed to provide faculty with the freedom and the resources to use their classrooms as laboratories
for innovation in teaching and learning. Other proposed changes should provide students with a
curriculum that allows them the freedom to design a unique K education that is meaningful and
integrated. By capitalizing on the best thinking of all faculty members and the spirit of innovation
demonstrated throughout Kalamazoo College’s history, we can collectively create the K Plan for the 21st
Century.
This is the revised document for the curriculum change adopted in 2009. This document succeeds the original proposal of 2007 (Revitalizaing a Fellowship in Learning: K-Plan for the 21st Century; A proposal from the Distinctiveness Initiative Task Force to enhance what Kalamazoo College already does well, https://cache.kzoo.edu/handle/10920/25434) and precedes the adopted 2009 document (K Plan for the 21st Century: General Education Curriculum, https://cache.kzoo.edu/handle/10920/25470).
This is the revised document for the curriculum change adopted in 2009. This document succeeds the original proposal of 2007 (Revitalizaing a Fellowship in Learning: K-Plan for the 21st Century; A proposal from the Distinctiveness Initiative Task Force to enhance what Kalamazoo College already does well, https://cache.kzoo.edu/handle/10920/25434) and precedes the adopted 2009 document (K Plan for the 21st Century: General Education Curriculum, https://cache.kzoo.edu/handle/10920/25470).
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