西南大学打破障碍
学校独特的hybri新墨西哥d teaching and learning model grows enrollment and showcases the need for a robust digital library.
By Alison Roth
When campuses and libraries shuttered last year, students and faculty at theUniversity of the Southwest(USW) were better prepared than many.
在总部位于新墨西哥州的机构中，混合学习至少五年已经成为规范。该学校的2500名学生（从本科到博士学位）已经在参加校园内课程，虚拟课程，按需课程以及介于两者之间的所有内容之间都在切换。
“When COVID hit last spring, it took us only about 48 hours to pivot,” said Dr. Ryan Tipton, USW’s provost and chief academic officer.
蒂普顿（Tipton）于11年前加入USW担任教练，他说，基于信仰的非宗派学校的愿景长期以来一直是消除界限并赋予学生首选的力量。有些人选择传统的大学经验，包括宿舍生活和田径运动。其他人获得学位，而无需踏上校园。一些学生选择面对面和虚拟教育的组合。
In March 2020, said Tipton, “our students were heading home for spring break, so we just told them to prepare to finish the term online. Not much changed for us, and our students’ education continued uninterrupted.”
One key factor that helped with this smooth transition was the USW library, a crucial pillar of teaching and learning at USW. Already set up for fully virtual access, the library brings a broad range of content to faculty and students at all levels. Before the pandemic, they began subscribing toProQuest One Academic这是世界上最大的多学科内容集合，包括期刊，新闻，电子书，流视频和论文。
蒂普顿说：“ Proquest One学者确实使我们能够获得图书馆的虚拟。”“这是对完整库资源的独立，一站式订阅。我们在大学里有三所大学：商业，教育，艺术和科学。Proquest One学者非常适合。它提供资源 - 期刊，电子书，视频，论文 - 满足这三者的需求。它立即为我们带来一切 - 并将一切都放在我们的学生的一个地方。”
Corina Madrid, USW’s Library and Student Learning Resources Director, said that aggregated databases like ProQuest One Academic are especially valuable when they touch every discipline at a university. “We’re helping our students gain information literacy in such a noisy world,” she said. “They’re able to get on our library website and research whatever they want whenever it is convenient for them.”
USW最初是一所学生教师的通勤学院，自2010年以来的规模已经增加了两倍，并继续打破了身体和虚拟的教育界限。他们的入学人数在2020年增长了13％，主要是研究生和博士课程。
蒂普顿说：“在整个新墨西哥州，只有大约700名学生攻读博士学位，其中20％去了USW。”“我们已经从当地的通勤学院到成为各个年龄段和各个层面的学习者的全球机构。”