Transdisciplinary Approaches to Higher Education Problems

Jessica L. Tinklenberg, PhD, is Executive Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and Adjunct Faculty in Religious Studies, at Pima Community College. She previously served as the Director of the Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Morningside College. She holds a PhD in Religions of Western Antiquity from Florida State University. Jeremy Schnieder, PhD, is an award-winning teacher and administrator. Much of his career has been devoted to the pursuit of enhanced student learning through meaningful pedagogy, faculty development, and assessment via a transdisciplinary lens. He holds a PhD, from Bowling Green State University, along with degrees from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Western Colorado University.

"I have one question for Jessica Tinklenberg and Jeremy Schneider: Where have you been all my life as a professor and educational developer? Transdisciplinary Approaches to Problems in Higher Education is the book that I–and everyone else in higher education—have always needed for understanding and productively responding to our institutions’ most complex and daunting problems. Their transdisciplinary framework is the best model I’ve ever seen for meaningful change management at colleges and universities, and for building truly collaborative coalitions of faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community members that can effectively tackle the biggest challenges we face."Jessamyn Neuhaus, author of Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and Professor, School of Education“With the rapid pace of change across higher education, this book is a must-read guide to an equitable and inclusive approach to action-oriented problem solving. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Problems in Higher Education invites readers to imagine a truly participatory academia in which administrators, students, staff, and faculty alike develop shared language, define problems, and identify actionable solutions, and each chapter provides the tools to make this a reality. Most crucially, the call to slow down and intentionally co-create solutions will impact the way higher education professionals view our roles as leaders and decision makers.”Carly M. Lesoski, PhD (they/she), Learning Innovation Program Manager, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), Dartmouth College

• 1.What is Transdisciplinarity? 2. How Do We Actually Do It? 3. Crisis Response 4. Institutional Assessment 5. Curriculum Development 6. Educational Development 7. Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion 8. Wellbeing 9. Institutional Strategic Planning 10. Sustaining Transdisciplinary Processes 11. Conclusion: The Hard Work of Change