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Spring2018Vol.20No.2

The LEAP Challenge: Engaging in Capstones and Signature Work

This issue presents findings from the eight-campus LEAP Challenge: Engaging in Capstones and Signature Work project consortium. Cross-consortium perspectives are presented in the feature articles, which are organized around the five themes that emerged during the project—defining capstones and signature work, organizing capstones and signature work, student preparedness for capstones and signature work, institutional readiness for capstones and signature work, and assessing capstones and signature work.

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From the Editor

From the Editor

From the Editor

Analysis

Making the Case for Capstones and Signature Work

Nancy Budwig, Clark University and AAC&U; and Amy Jessen-Marshall, AAC&U

Practice

Defining and Framing Signature Work on Your Campus

Mike Egan, Augustana College; Kristi Kneas, Elizabethtown College; and Michael Reder, Connecticut College

Processes of Curricular Change and Strategies for Organizing Signature Work

Patrick Hayden-Roy, Nebraska Wesleyan University; Tim Elgren, Oberlin College; Kristi Kneas, Elizabethtown College; Matt Malsky, Clark University; and Michael Reder, Connecticut College

Student Preparation for and Engagement with Signature Work

Nancy Budwig, Clark University and AAC&U; Jeffrey Ratliff-Crain, Augustana College; and Michael Reder, Connecticut College

Institutional Readiness for Signature Work

Nancy Budwig, Clark University and AAC&U; and Kathryn Low, Bates College

Assessing Signature Work

Kathryn Low, Bates College; Sarah A. Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan University; Kyle Kopko, Elizabethtown College; Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College; and Michelle Bata, Clark University

Research

Assessing Quality and Equity: Observations about the State of Signature Work

Jillian Kinzie, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement Institute

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