The Office of the Provost
ERRATA
For the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
September 6, 2007
Subsequent to the submission of Western Carolina University’s QEP, Synthesis: A
pathway to intentional learning, the following changes need to be incorporated in the
original plan:
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The Synthesis Strategic Plan (1995), sponsored by the National Science Foundation and a
coalition of universities and colleges known as the Synthesis Coalition, brings together
disparate conceptual schemes related to synthesis to create an applied framework for
engineering and science education delivery systems. Specifically, this framework
includes the constructivist learning model of Lawson (1989)…….
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Like the Synthesis Coalition, the work of the QEP draws upon this same literature.
Unlike this coalition, the QEP attempts to create a broader educational framework that
reaches across several disciplines and general education.
Bibliography Citation:
The Synthesis Strategic Plan (1995). A project sponsored by the National Science
Foundation and the Synthesis Coalition (California Polytechnic State University at San
Luis Obispo; Cornell, Hampton, Iowa State, Southern, Stanford, and Tuskegee
Universities; and the University of California at Berkeley). Retrieved February 23, 2006,
from http://best.me.berkeley.edu/~aagogino/synthesis/strategic.plan.html
Errata – QEP – 9/6/2006