Integrating Curricular and Co-Curricular Endeavors to Enhance Student Outcomes

Edited by Laura A. Wankel, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USACharles Wankel, St. John’s University, New York, NY, USA

Scholars of business and other fields describe some methods for providing higher education students with more skills employers want. They cover approaches to integrating the curricular, co-curricular, and extra curricular; integrating international learning into curricula; learning from peers; and leveraging co-curricular endeavors. Among specific topics are using practicum classes to solidify the scientist-practitioner model in master's level training, project management: practice-based learning in a British university, fostering intercultural competence through short-term study abroad, promoting student engagement in the classroom and beyond, and assessing multiple dimensions of significant learning.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION1. An Overview of Integrating Curricular and Co-Curricular Endeavors to Enhance Student Outcomes - Laura A. Wankel and Charles WankelPART II: APPROACHES TO INTEGRATING THE CURRICULAR, CO-CURRICULAR, AND EXTRA CURRICULAR2. Use of Practicum Classes to Solidify the Scientist-Practitioner Model in Master’s Level Training - Janet L. Kottke, Deborah A. Olson and Kenneth S. Shultz3. Integrating Curricular and Extracurricular Programs to Enhance Leader Development at the U.S. Naval Academy - Wesley S. Huey, Kevin M. Mullaney, Arthur Gibb and Joseph J. Thomas4. Learning by Art-Making: The Inner-Outer Experience. An Experiment within a Master’s Course in Audit, Control, and Accounting - Philippe Mairesse5. Application of Competency-Based Learning to Entrepreneurship Education: Integrating Curricular and Cocurricular Elements to Enhance Discipline Mastery - Rebecca J. White and Kevin Moore6. Bridging the Clinical-Doctrinal Divide: Clinician and Student Views of Teaching and Learning in Clinical Legal Programs - Gemma Smyth7. Project Management: Practice-Based Learning in a UK University - Elly Philpott and David Owen8. A Credit-Bearing Programmatic Approach to Community-Based Learning at a Metropolitan University: The UALR Speech Communication Department - Kristen McIntyre and Ryan FullerPART III: INTEGRATING INTERNATIONAL LEARNING INTO CURRICULA9. The Somali Immersion Experience: An Intercultural Immersion - Dandrielle Lewis and Aram deKoven10. Fostering Intercultural Competence through Short-Term Study Abroad - Selena KohelPART IV: LEARNING FROM PEERS11. From Profit to Passion: What Business Students Learned from Circus Artists - Emma Stenstrom12. Peer Mentoring in Higher Education and the Development of Leadership Skills in Mentors - Andrea North-Samardzic and Michael Cohen13. Campus Community Integration on a Mission: Transformative Learning for Social Change - Dawn M. Francis and Stephanie L. Colbry14. Student Team-Based Semester-Long Applied Research Projects in Local Businesses - Anne Bradley, Peter Richardson and Cath FraserPART V: LEVERAGING CO-CURRICULAR ENDEAVORS15. Assessing Competencies: Extending the Traditional Co-Curricular Transcript to Include Measures of Students’ Skills and Abilities - Stan M. Dura16. Promoting Student Engagement in the Classroom and Beyond - Richard L. Miller17. Assessing Multiple Dimensions of Significant Learning - Jennifer E. Rivera and William F. Heinrich