No Textbooks, No Lectures, and No Right Answers. Is This What Higher Education Needs?

According to one survey, only 36 percent of students believe they will graduate with the skills and knowledge to be successful in the workplace. Joi Merritt, an elementary-education expert and first-timer teaching an X-Labs class; Bill Grant, another X-Labs novice, whose focus is normally on health...

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Published in:	The Chronicle of Higher Education 2019-02, Vol.65 (22), p.A14
Main Author:	McMurtrie, Beth
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Active Learning Collaboration College campuses College curriculum Community Curricula Design Education Education, Higher Educational innovations Entrepreneurship Evaluation Higher education Homeless people Homeless persons Homelessness Innovations Learning Makerspaces Nonprofit organizations President of the United States Standardized Tests Students Teaching Textbooks Undergraduate Study Universities and colleges
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Summary:	According to one survey, only 36 percent of students believe they will graduate with the skills and knowledge to be successful in the workplace. Joi Merritt, an elementary-education expert and first-timer teaching an X-Labs class; Bill Grant, another X-Labs novice, whose focus is normally on health economics; and Aaron Kishbaugh, who manages the lab and brings with him experience as a community organizer. McLucas’s team proposed a health hotline, then an app that connects people to resources in the community, then a mentoring program, then JMU internships at the Suitcase Clinic. The container both expands the services the Suitcase Clinic can offer and allows it to bring its services to low-income housing communities and other places where people lack quality health care.
ISSN:	0009-5982 1931-1362