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Category: Interdisciplinary Studies
Hannah Mallon Named CoLab Learning Developer
The Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative is proud to announce that Hannah (Hounsell) Mallon has accepted a new position on our team. Starting on November 13th, Hannah will be the CoLab’s new Learning Developer. This position will combine her current work for Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) with new duties for the Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative […]
IDS Says Goodbye! Recapping the ’22 End of Semester Celebration
The IDS team looks forward to our celebratory events at the end of each term, but the one on May 4, 2022, was particularly special because it was our first one in person since 2019. As we all so deeply know, these past few years have been H A R D. I’m not going to […]
The Experience Paradox, And How To Beat It: Using Project-Based College Work to Land Your First Job
When freshly-minted college graduates are looking for their first jobs, many are frustrated by what can best be described as the experience paradox. Many supposedly entry-level post-college jobs ask for one or two years of experience. I’ve heard many graduating seniors exclaim, with warranted frustration, “How can I get my first job, if all of these supposedly first jobs want one or two years of experience?”
Everyone Is a Teacher
These remarks were written for the dedication ceremony for the Elizabeth W. Cheney Studio Theatre at Plymouth State University. By some strange turns of fate, I have ended up working at the school where my mother worked for over 40 years — and as program director of the major she got her bachelor’s degree from […]
Call for Proposals: Seeking Chapter for OER Textbook
The Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative and the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Plymouth State University seek a chapter about the history of disciplinarity for an open textbook used in an introductory Interdisciplinary Studies course. The open textbook Cluster Learning: A Springboard for Interdisciplinary, Networked, and Individualized Education is a revision and development of Interdisciplinary Studies: […]
My Experience with Interdisciplinary Studies
In the summer of 2017, I arrived at my orientation as a first-year student at Plymouth State University already thinking about joining the Interdisciplinary Studies department. My mother, who has worked for universities my whole life listened to my grief regarding applying to schools and declaring a major. She supported my decision to start a […]
IDS Major Creates PSU’s First Fully Student-Created Pressbook
We have been using the Pressbooks tool at PSU for a few years to create online, openly-licensed books, but until now those Pressbooks have either been created by faculty/staff members or by students collaborating as part of course work designed by a faculty member. Now, IDS major Henry Huang has published the first entirely student-generated, […]
IDS Student wins Social Venture Innovation Challenge
Congratulations to IDS’s own Noah Fiske and his project partner Zachary Eastman on winning the 2020 Social Venture Innovation Challenge in the category Most Impactful Story to Engage Stakeholders with their proposal for a Plymouth Cares One-Stop-Shop, a “virtual‚ one-stop-shop‚ that integrates all the resources that satisfy unmet basic needs of students at Plymouth State University into […]
IDS Students Produce Video About IDS
Maya Golowasch ’20 created a video for the Interdisciplinary Studies program with the help of Casey Smith ’19 and a bunch of IDS students and alumni. The goal of this video was to show how IDS can help students who are not finding success in their current major. Students come to IDS for lots of […]