The researcher, noting the administrator’s immediate reference to key institutional
documents, followed-up with a question about a phrase from the vision statement:
integrative learning. It was at this point that Edmonds noted the terminology integrative
learning was changing to experiential learning. He then offered an interpretation of what
that term meant:
And there we mean a whole variety of experiences outside the formal curriculum,
outside classroom that we believe will advance both the freedom and purpose
objectives. So it includes internships, study abroad, service-learning,
undergraduate research. Those are the four experiences that certainly are the focus
within the academic program.
When asked about the change in terminology, Edmonds stated that the term integrative