campus partner(s)

Shimer College and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

state(s)

IL

amount

$21,000

initiative

Liberal Arts and the Professions

award date

02.2015

project director

Harold Stone

Shimer College

Grant Summary

$21,000 over 8 months to identify deeper means by which the partner institutions can leverage their co-location on the South Side of Chicago to strengthen connections between liberal arts education and professional education. A call for mini-grant proposals will be made for teams consisting of both Shimer and IIT faculty to develop implementation plans for co-designed courses, co-terminal or shared degrees, and infrastructure for strategic curricular collaborations.