Calhoun Center for Higher Education Innovation

A professor and students gathered around a table.

Mission and Goals

The Calhoun Center for Higher Education Innovation aims to facilitate a national conversation on adaptive, transdisciplinary life-long learning and the diverse partnerships and platforms that can facilitate this type of learning for the twenty-first century. The Calhoun Center is connecting this conversation to the iterative planning of the Discovery program.

The Center is partnering with a number of other Virginia Tech entities and external institutions to host its first workshop on “Adaptive Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive Knowledge Economy” on October 25-27, 2019.

Workshop Information

The center is also supporting the external assessment of the Calhoun Discovery Program. The primary goals of the external assessment is to assist the Discovery Program team to continuously improve the quality of the students’ learning experience as well as support the transdisciplinary teaching and scholarship of the Discovery Program faculty and the effectiveness of the external partnerships. The Calhoun Center is also facilitating the external partnerships of the Discovery Program with industry, non-profit, and professional organizations and K-12 institutions.

The center aims to compile lessons learned from its research into a set of blueprints that can be applied by forward-looking educators inside and outside of Virginia Tech.