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A Great Connection

A Great Connection. Service Learning and the First-Year Experience Carolyn Brown Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Jonathan Franz Provost and Academic Vice President 2005 International Conference on the First-Year Experience. Mission Statement.

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A Great Connection

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  1. A Great Connection Service Learning and the First-Year Experience Carolyn Brown Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Jonathan Franz Provost and Academic Vice President 2005 International Conference on the First-Year Experience

  2. Mission Statement Tusculum College remains true to its origins as a church-related institution of higher learning in the civic republican tradition by developing educated citizens distinguished by academic excellence, public service, and qualities of Judeo-Christian character.

  3. Tusculum in Brief • Founded in 1794 • Presbyterian Heritage • 900 Traditional Students learning on a focused one-course-at-a-time calendar 1500 Working Adult Students Accelerated cohort schedule Multiple sites in E. Tennessee

  4. The Residential College • Over 900 students in more than 30 majors • Civic Arts – Education for Citizenship • Commons Core Curriculum • Block Schedule

  5. Commons Program Mission Tusculum seeks to graduate individuals who will become engaged in their communities in various ways and who will know how to most effectively achieve the common good and justice in a global context.

  6. OLIC - Our Lives in Community An examination of public and private roles of citizens in immediate communities. Course Emphases: • Community – Issues of Interdependence • Civic Arts – A Different Type of Education • Skills – Analytical Reading • Service – Making Contributions

  7. Nettie McCormick Service Day • Motivational speaker kicks off the day • Entire campus mobilizes in service to local communities • Campus picnic wraps up Nettie Day events

  8. Why drop OLIC? • Insufficient integration with Orientation Weekend organized by Student Affairs • Inconsistent expectations • Decreased faculty buy-in over time • Shift in emphasis over time • Heavy emphasis on testing reading skills • Lessening emphasis on adjustment issues

  9. New Commons Curriculum • The Tusculum Experience – Extended Freshman Orientation • Foundational Skills Courses - English, Math, Computer Science • Studies in the Liberal Arts and Sciences - Arts/Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Wellness • Western Civic and Religious Traditions • Engaged Citizenship: Issues and Action

  10. Why Change Nettie Day? • Increased enrollment presented insurmountable logistical challenges • Connection to Block 1 courses highly tenuous, esp. after dropping OLIC • Cost for travel became prohibitive

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