PAGE 5 ANNUAL REPORT 2022–2023 - - - - - CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE ► Decisions offered through edX. This certificate will provide prospective Lehigh master’s students with the skills they need to begin their formal studies while also inviting a global audience of learners to earn this credential. This is a crucial first step as Lehigh expands its presence on the edX platform. Distance Education (DE) continued support of eight fully online graduate degree programs in both syn chronous and asynchronous formats, offering 111 courses to 1,117 registrants. DE also began partnering with the College of Health to offer and support online courses as part of the college’s Master’s of Population Health and Master’s of Public Health degree programs. New TRAC Fellows in the TRAC 100 Seminar presented findings from their group research projects on grading and assessment in a November symposium. SPOTLIGHT ON COURSES Library Instruction and Outreach Librarians expanded their instructional footprint across disci plines, programs, audiences, and all levels of education includ ing curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning, reach ing over 3,000 learners. We re-envisioned our first-year seminar support toward a more interactive and multimodal engagement that taught students research fundamentals while encourag ing curiosity and inquiry; piloted a data literacy seminar series that explored the nuances of data discovery, visualization, and sharing; and supported global experiential learning programs including the Marcon Fellows, Martindale Honors Program, and Global Village: • For Electrical and Computer Engineering students, our Engineering Librarian created an online tutorial and met with upper-level undergraduate students to help students find, access, organize, and evaluate research information to support investigation and analysis of their Senior Lab and design projects on integrated circuitry. • For the Martindale Student Associates Honor Program, our Business Data Librarian presented an in-depth library and research strategy session for twelve students who spent the academic year researching and writing on specific research topics related to Denmark, upon returning from their trip there. Their final papers were published in the College of Business Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise journal, Perspectives on Business and Economics. The journal can be found through the Library's digital repository, Lehigh Preserve. • In support of the Eckardt Scholars Program, our Humanities Librarian collaborated with Special Collections to host a combination library instruction/pop-up exhibition on the topic of banned books. The class learned how to conduct college-level research, and discovered the many resources available to them through Lehigh Libraries including the rare and unique primary sources available from Lehigh Libraries’ Special Collections. After the instruction session, library staff guided students through an exhibition of banned books such as the Limited Editions Club edition of Charles Baudeliare’s Les fleurs du mal, illustrated by Auguste Rodin, and the 1962 Traveller’s Companion Series edition of John Cleland’s Fanny. • For students in Norrin Ripsman’s “The Quest for Peace” (IR 332), our Social Sciences Librarian led an exploration of primary and secondary sources from policy briefs to political science scholarship to think tank digital archives. Students reflected on the value and relevance of different types of resources to their topics, giving them new path ways to and perspectives on the breadth of information possibilities in support of their intensive research projects. -
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