Transdisciplinary Educational News Today

New TEK courses will be offered utilizing the UKC prefix during the Spring 2024 semester and will satisfy UK Core requirements. Courses focus on topics such as climate change, misinformation, creative spaces and well-being. All undergraduate students are encouraged to enroll in the new courses. 

“In my life, I have defined success as choosing a career that I was passionate about, a career where I could make a difference,” DiPaola said.

New courses created as part of the TEK Faculty Fellows program will engage faculty in team-teaching across disciplinary boundaries with a focus on a critical issue or problem alongside workforce experts and community partners. Revised courses will emphasize the skills that transdisciplinary work requires, including collaboration and communication among stakeholders with different perspectives and lived experiences.

A new collaborative initiative at the University of Kentucky is working to better support children and teens struggling with mental health challenges through summer camps.

This year, the program is encouraging proposals that align with one or more of the five guiding principles from the forthcoming Sustainability Strategic Plan (SSP) update and support the university’s renewed focus on Transdisciplinary Educational approaches to advance Kentucky (TEK).  

Every 10 years, we seek reaffirmation from the body that accredits UK – the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). We are announcing our Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) – an important part of reaccreditation process. Our QEP focuses on what we are calling Transdisciplinary Educational approaches to advance Kentucky (TEK).

University of Kentucky Eli Capilouto sent the following message to the campus community on Thursday, March 4, 2022.