Innovative academic programs established to meet changing national need
University of Central Florida Roche College of Hospitality Management
Drawn from web site https://hospitality.ucf.edu/hospitality-technology/lab-location/
As evidence of its leadership among Hospitality programs, in May 2019 the Roche School hosted the first annual conference on smart tourism, smart cities, and enabling technologies. (https://hospitality.ucf.edu/smartconference2019/)
Set in the heart of the tourism capital of the world, Orlando, Florida, for more than 30 years Rosen College has cultivated strong relationships with globally recognized hospitality and tourism industry partners, providing students unparalleled opportunities to apply classroom education in real-world settings through research and academic internships.
The faculty of the college — an international roster of award-winning scholars and former industry executives representing seventeen countries — are renowned for cutting-edge research, making Rosen College one of the most influential hospitality management research institutions in the country. The college is also the largest of its kind in the country, with more than 3,500 students in four undergraduate programs, with two minors, two graduate programs, and two graduate certificates, as well as Florida’s only stand-alone doctoral program in Hospitality Management, which is one of only a handful in the nation. Courses are offered at a state-of-the-art campus, based among the industries where the students and graduates make their careers.
As a recognized leader in hospitality management education and research at the Dick Pope Sr. Institute for Tourism Studies, Rosen College launches the Hospitality Technology & Innovation Lab with the potential to transform the hospitality industry.
The benefits of this project to the hospitality industry and the greater community are numerous, but several specific objectives include:
The hospitality industry is one of the largest career sectors in the world and continues to grow at a rapid pace. With your online hospitality degree through UCF Online, you’ll learn about more than just the travel agencies, events and hotels at the core of this field. You’ll gain a deep understanding of all aspects of the industry including finance, operations, customer service theory, human resources, marketing and communications. You’ll also have the opportunity to focus on niche areas of the industry through specialized coursework on theme park and attraction management, golf and club management, and lodging management.
Learn from some of the world’s most qualified internationally renowned faculty and network with influential industry leaders from the world’s most famous hospitality businesses.
This limited access program is designed to produce top executives across various sectors of the hospitality industry. Applicants must have three years of relevant industry experience before admittance. This degree will further the student’s leadership and management knowledge and experience. Upon graduation from UCF Online you will have a solid foundation of skills that will set you apart to help you secure positions in the top hospitality companies around the world.
Carnegie Mellon University “CyLab”
Drawn from web site at: https://cylab.cmu.edu/education/programs.html
Carnegie Mellon University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in three distinct areas, Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Education (CAE-IA/CD), Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R) and Cyber Operations (CAE- Cyber Ops). These designations are reflective of the work of CyLab faculty and researchers.
Across the colleges and schools at Carnegie Mellon, a number of professional graduate degree programs are offered in information networking, information security, and information technology, to create a pool of IA professionals who can address the wide range of technology, policy, and management issues in government, industry, and academia.
Several colleges and departments at Carnegie Mellon offer Ph.D. programs which provide many of the faculty and graduate students active engagement in CyLab research. These include the School of Computer Science and the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy, both from the College of Engineering.
Oregon Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy Engineering
Drawn from web site at: https://www.oit.edu/academics/degrees/renewable-energy-engineering
As the first university in North America to design and offer a Bachelor’s Degree in Renewable Energy Engineering (BSREE), Oregon Tech has led the field since 2005 in producing graduates who develop, promote, and implement sustainable energy technologies across the country and the world. Oregon Tech’s unique Renewable Energy degree prepares graduates for major roles in the clean energy sector, and the renewable energy industry in particular.
Graduates of Oregon Tech’s Renewable Energy Engineering program would be ideal candidates for engineering jobs in most any organization where a major emphasis is in power generation, power and energy systems design or applications, and energy conversion technologies. More broadly, organizations that work in these energy and renewable technologies need our graduates: energy efficiency and "green" buildings, solar thermal systems, photovoltaics, hydropower, wave and tidal energy, biomass and biofuels resources, wind energy, energy storage, geothermal systems, and alternative transportation systems.
The Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy Engineering program is offered at both Klamath Falls and Portland-Metro locations. The Master of Science in Renewable Energy Engineering, first offered in 2012, is offered exclusively at the Portland-Metro location. The concurrent Bachelor of Science degree in Renewable Energy Engineering and Electrical Engineering is available at both locations. The concurrent Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy Engineering and Environmental Science is offered in Klamath Falls. Dual majors are available for students at the Portland-Metro campus (in Wilsonville).
University of Michigan School for Environment & Sustainability
Drawn from 2016 provost’s committee report http://provost.umich.edu/environsustain/University of Michigan Sustainability Academic Programs FINAL Report.pdf
And from: https://seas.umich.edu/ School for Environment and Sustainability
Committee: The University of Michigan must have a world-renowned, top-ranked, interdisciplinary sustainability school as the focal point and leading voice of the campus community on sustainability in association with environment and society. The Committee therefore recommends that the University of Michigan create a School of Sustainability, Environment, and Society (SSES). This school will provide a dynamic, transformative, interdisciplinary approach as it pursues its mission to “address global sustainability challenges at the intersection of environment and society through research, teaching, and civic engagement.” SSES will have permeable boundaries so that it can provide leadership and work collaboratively with other schools and programs at the university to develop solutions to the most challenging global sustainability issues. SSES will replace the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) and dramatically expand both its mission and the quality of its partnerships with other schools and programs at UM.
Michigan will develop a new undergraduate Program in Sustainability, Environment, and Society (PSES). The mission of PSES will be to “engage students in developing their interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to understand and solve the Earth’s sustainability challenges.” Setting a novel model of interdisciplinary education, PSES should be jointly owned by SSES, the liberal arts college and possibly additional schools and colleges that contribute instructional resources through a shared governance model rather than sitting in any one school or college.
Arizona State University College of Health Solutions
Drawn from web site at: https://chs.asu.edu/
ASU College of Health Solutions—founded in 2012—is the only one of its kind. In 2018 the regents voted to reorganize the College of Health Solutions in order to teach in a similar way to how the health care and research fields operate.
“The way the College of Health Solutions was organized was that everything was in these silos but we know in order for us to make an impact … we all need to work together … and so we break down these silos and bring all the faculty together and say 'okay, how do we address these health problems in a much more comprehensive way?'”
Because of this new interdisciplinary shift, the College of Health Solutions is creating teams of researchers, students, and community members to explore more niche areas within healthcare research. We are committed to translating scientific health research and discovery into practice by bringing together researchers, faculty, students and community partners to work on specific health challenges. We prepare students to reimagine health and create a better future by addressing the challenges facing people to stay healthy, improve their health and manage chronic disease.
We are all in for better health outcomes, and there's no place like us — which is what you'd expect from a college at ASU, the most innovative university in the nation.
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Office for Science & Innovation
Drawn from the web site: https://Nursing.jhu.edu
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing ranks #1 nationally among graduate schools of nursing and #3 for online programs, according to U.S. News & World Report, and was named the Most Innovative Nursing Graduate Program in the U.S. by Best Master of Science in Nursing Degrees. The school ranks #1 among nursing schools for Federal Research Grants and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. Nearly 95 percent of graduates pass the NCLEX on their first try. Among the faculty, more than 40 percent are ranked as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.
The school has clinics across Baltimore that reach out to abused women, struggling mothers and other underrepresented communities, giving over 12,000 volunteer hours annually and conducting 40 different community-based service programs. The School of Nursing is associated with nursing practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital, ranked #1 in the United States an unprecedented 22 times by U.S. News & World Report.
Opening in 1990, the Center for Nursing Research and Sponsored Projects, now known as the Office for Science and Innovation, has encouraged leadership for nursing research within the School, University, community and profession, and facilitates excellence in nursing research. Research is coordinated between the Office for Science and Innovation, Office of Finance Administration, and Johns Hopkins University Research Administration as well as Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes.
Our faculty-led, interdisciplinary centers strengthen a focused area of scholarship in health care by providing an environment to expand the knowledge base, integrate specific education and practice initiatives, and mentor new scholars.
Credential developed through Capital CoLAB (Collaborative of Leaders in Academia and Business) and offered at George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University & others
Drawn from Chronicle of Higher Education publication, The Innovation Imperative, 2019, pp. 34-35.
“The challenge: Develop a digitally savvy work force. The change: Create an unusual partnership among universities and companies.”
A new generalist digital-technology credential was developed by an alliance of 12 universities and 14 companies, members of Capital CoLAB, located along a corridor that stretches from Baltimore, MD to Richmond, VA. Employers, including a biotech company, an aerospace giant, and big financial players, agreed on the knowledge, skills and abilities that should be represented in a generalist technology certificate for a college graduate. Colleges in the corridor produce about 20,000 digital technology graduates a year, while the region has about 10 times that many open digital-tech jobs—and that’s even before Amazon lands in Northern Virginia with its HQ2 needs. Once the employers agreed on the criteria, the college representatives went to their deans and department chairs to map where those key skills were already being taught in the curricula and where they might need to tweak or add a course. As long as they could cover the material in a sequence of 3-5 courses, the colleges were free to develop the credential as they wished.
George Mason University made the credential the equivalent of a minor, while Virginia Commonwealth University created a “Fundamentals of Computing” certificate; their first graduates completed the program in May 2019. American University, Virginia Tech, Georgetown and the University of Richmond started their programs in the fall of 2019. Capital CoLAB plans to create three additional specialized certificates, in cybersecurity, data analytics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. From the perspective of the colleges, it allows them to best prepare students for careers, while from the perspective of the businesses, it is a way to create a pipeline to get employees with the right backgrounds.
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate (see Appendix A-1, Online “Niche” Programs)
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