Abstract:
This survey was initiated for the Boyer Commission to examine the
development of undergraduate programs in the years since Reinventing
Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities
was published in 1998. Because the Commission felt the information
would be of value to other educators, we decided to share the results.
The Boyer Report turned out to be of interest and use beyond research
universities to all categories of American institutions and to
large numbers of institutions worldwide. However, the current study
surveyed only the American research universities that were the focus
of the original report.
We would like to thank Emily Thomas, who designed and analyzed
the survey; Wendy Katkin and Mary Leming, who collected the data
and conducted the interviews; and Priscilla Smith who copyedited;
their long and dedicated hours of work brought this project to fruition.
Thanks too to Milton Glaser, member of the Boyer Commission,
who designed the publication, and Wendy Gross, who executed it.
Shirley Strum Kenny
