Purpose:       To develop and offer new interdisciplinary, team-taught courses that address issues of diversity and democracy for entering students as part of the Rowan Seminar program.

Program:
· Fund faculty teams to attend a workshop to develop new courses
· Fund departments to make it possible for faculty to offer the new team-taught courses in the fall semester of freshmen year.          

Workshops:
· Five-days
· Mornings devoted to group discussions with faculty and facilitators
· Afternoon for teams to develop and write the course proposals
· Outcome- fully developed interdisciplinary, team-taught course proposal ready for curriculum review
· Each faculty member will receive a stipend for participation and completion of the proposal
· Offered twice a year for the duration of the grant

Implementation:
· Schedule new Rowan Seminar courses for fall semester Fund departments to allow faculty to teach these courses
· Will be funded for the duration of the grant

Award:
· Funded by The Bildner Foundation
· Directed by Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Philanthropic Institute (TPI)
· $195,830 over three years

Assessment:
· Retention data
· Attitude assessment instrument (to be developed)
· Qualitative data via focus groups
· Follow up on student involvement after RS course