Tuning news published in GOOD Magazine

An article about Tuning USA appeared in GOOD Magazine on February 3, 2012: In Seven States, Higher Education Is Getting a Tuneup

Tuning Educational Structures: A Guide to the Process now Available

A guide to the Tuning process is now available from IEBC’s Tuning USA. A product of studying the three pilot projects and observing current initiatives........

Kentucky Tuning Examines Next Steps

IEBC’s first Tuning work, a project in Kentucky that developed competencies and outcomes for five disciplines, wound to a close in Fall 2011. IEBC will rejoin the groups as they meet in March, 2012 to consider next steps.

Three-state project in Midwest underway

The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)’s Tuning project kicked off on November 4, 2011. Faculty in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri are now meeting on a monthly basis to tune the disciplines of Marketing and Psychology.

Tuning is a faculty-driven process that identifies what a student should know and be able to do in a chosen discipline when a degree has been earned - an associate’s, bachelor’s or master’s. The process is designed to make higher education outcomes more transparent to all stakeholders, including students, employers, and parents, and to ensure the quality of degrees across institutions. Tuning has been utilized to help students understand expectations and to facilitate transfer and articulation among institutions. In the United States, the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) is facilitating implementation of the Tuning process. Tuning has been funded by Lumina Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.