So How's That Open Curriculum going

interesteddad
Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:24:22 +0000

Corbett:

The longer list I posted is from the IPEDs database which uses the “industry standard” list of departments or fields. Science is either “Biological and Health Sciences” or “Physical Sciences”, so I strongly suspect that it captures all the hyrbrids like Bio Chem and so forth in one category or another. Swarthmore has a significant number of graduates in those majors and the IPEDS appears to have captured it quite well.

I did not include the Environmental category in the custom report, so I probably shortchanged Middlebury. I didn’t incude it because the category includes fisheries, wildlife management, forestry, etc. I was trying to stay consistent with the data Corbett had already put together. I just checked. Adding in the “Natural Resources and Conservation” field bumps Middlebury up to 16%.