A center for collaborative teaching at Wayne State, The Department of  Interdisciplinary Studies,  has seen as its role as making college more accessible to many of Detroit’s traditionally underserved, older students who had dropped or stopped out. Nearly all of the roughly 700 undergraduates and 50 graduate students housed in the interdisciplinary program are over 21 — and many are in their 30s and 40s. Most are enrolled part time, roughly two-thirds are black and the majority are female, according to Roslyn Schindler, chair of the department. This department and its programs have been approved for elimination as part of cost-cutting package approved by Wayne State’s Board of Governors. Read more at: www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/31/wayne

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