Institute for Core Studies
The Institute for Core Studies is being established to
enhance service to our students during their crucial first two
years of undergraduate study. The Institute will consist of faculty
who teach primarily in three core specialties: Discover New York,
Composition, and Scientific Inquiry. These faculty members will be
able to earn programmatic tenure. We expect a deep commitment to
the University and its students, a compelling interest in high
quality teaching, an extraordinary devotion to student learning
both inside and outside of the classroom, and caring service to
students during their transition into academic life. The
Institute will also explore the creation of a required non-credit
capstone course devoted to a student’s passage out of the
undergraduate years. The course, tentatively titled “Passages” will
have two types of sections, one for students transitioning into the
world of work and one for students transitioning into graduate
study. The course would be taken during the students’ final
undergraduate year.