Governance and administration: CASE 6: A CHALLENGE-BASED COURSE ACROSS INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The chapter addresses a particular challenge on the sustainability of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary courses. These initiatives face pervasive challenges because they usually need to be self-sustained to be embedded in an institution and find pathways to be sustainable in the long term. The challenge the case shows is how to make these teaching formats sustainable in the long term while sorting out the administrative hurdles that are present in some universities that still do not fully support inter- or transdisciplinary teaching formats. There is a misalignment between the institutional understanding of these terms and what the incentives are to push them. The challenge has different components, which are also addressed by the authors of the commentaries accompanying this case.