>There are a number of institutions of higher ed which have a biology curriculum totally devoted to what goes on inside the cell membrane... >
Theres been quite a bit of > discussion > over the past two decades regarding establishment of foundations and > standards in the disciplinenot all of which have been favorable to > ecology, evolution, organismal biology, and natural history. > > George Middendorf > Biology > Howard University > > > > > Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 08:53:25 -0400 >> From: Tamara Cushing <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Non-Majors Biology >> >> Forestry has undergraduate accreditation >> >> Tammy >> >> Tamara L. Cushing, Ph.D. >> Assistant Professor, Forest Management and Economics >> Clemson University >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news >> [ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV. >> = >> UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Jane Shevtsov [[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:31 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Non-Majors Biology >> >> What disciplines other than engineering have departmental >> accreditation at the undergraduate level? >> >> Jane >> >> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM, malcolm McCallum >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The problem with biology education today is that there are: >> > 1) no standards for what the major is >> > 2) no accreditation governing what a department should comprise >> > >> > Europe now has accreditation for the discipline and if the US does not >> > follow suit you can watch rapidly as we not only fall behind in >> > biology, but basically fall like a rock in stature. >> > >> > Too many departments just wing it at the whim of the administrations' >> fol= >> ly. >> > Accreditation provides the departments with significant support and >> > legitimacy in the face of those administrations that generally care a >> > lot about money and little about quality or students. >> > >> > There are more of those than we care to admit. >> > >> > Look, we can't even agree whether biodiversity concepts belong in an >> > intro to bio class. >> > I find this not only disheartening but also frightening. Where else >> > they going to learn it, English? >> > Most schools don't have an EVS course, and many never will. >> > >> > Malcolm >> > >> >> >
