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We know that profound solutions to society’s most complex problems often are found through the collaboration of disciplines, or a transdisciplinary approach to education, research and service. 

TEK helps our students today and Kentucky’s workforce tomorrow. To do this, students learn leadership and employability skills, gain experience through team-based approaches, and work with experts from disciplines across the institution and community — in areas such as business, humanities, and math and natural science — to solve Kentucky’s biggest problems while gaining essential employability skills.  

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Provide opportunities for students to learn essential workforce skills in newly created and refreshed undergraduate courses

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Leverage faculty expertise to expand the use of transdisciplinary approaches in undergraduate courses across the University

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Link the transdisciplinary skills students are learning to Kentucky workforce needs

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TEK Faculty Fellow Highlights the Transdisciplinary Nature of Kentucky’s Equine Economy on Freakonomics Radio

Dr. Jill Stowe, University of Kentucky professor and TEK Faculty Fellow, was recently featured on Freakonomics Radio episode 652, “Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex.” In this episode—part of the podcast’s series The Horse Is Us—Stowe explains the economic forces that make Kentucky the global hub for the thoroughbred industry. Drawing on more than 15 years of research in equine markets and behavioral economics, she discusses how Kentucky’s dense network of breeding farms, veterinarians, transporters, farriers, and auction houses forms a powerful “economic cluster” that shapes the modern horse industry and unites multiple fields around one focus: the horse.

CELT and TEK Highlight Innovative Approach to Durable Skill Development at National Summit

At this year’s Student Success US Summit, hosted by Times Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, University of Kentucky leaders from the Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and Transdisciplinary Educational approaches to advance Kentucky (TEK) demonstrated how UK is taking up the challenge to “strengthen the bridge between higher education and the future of work.”