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Mission

Partners in Student Learning. Mission. Re-visioning: The current Committee on Student Learning Mission :.

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Mission

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  1. Partners in Student Learning Mission

  2. Re-visioning:The current Committee on Student Learning Mission: “The primary purpose of the Committee on Student Learning is to promote the integrated use of University resources for the holistic development of students. The Committee will coordinate programs and make recommendations to senior administration, designed to create a “seamless” learning environment at Western Carolina University.”

  3. Charge: Mission & Identity • Continue to facilitate integrated and interdisciplinary collaborations across academic and student affairs among students, faculty, staff, and administrators. • Create a model that is action oriented and grounded in research and best practice. • Ground the mission, objectives, strategies, and assessments to promote and foster successful student learning outcomes.

  4. Mission: Partners in Student Learning The Partners in Student Learning Committee aims to foster the integration of WCU resources and personnel to enhance student success with learning outcomes and their overall educational experiences through holistic and purposeful approaches that address challenges, goals, and opportunities, as informed by research and best practice.

  5. Steering Committee • Oversight • Carol Burton • Jane Dunford • Committee co-chairs • Glenda Hensley • Shawna Young • Task Group • 2-6 member core: to be determined based on projects identified – will determine additional needs and directions • Research and project development • Implementation and assessment

  6. WCU Leadership Steering Committee Co-Chairs Working Group - Research Working Group - Implementation Sustainability WCU Community

  7. Goals • Promote integrated and engaged learning across the campus community, as advocated by the QEP. • Facilitate opportunities to enhance student learning outcomes and educational experiences with significance, relevance, and enrichment. • Promote integrated use of university resources. • Strengthen the collaborative relationship between Academic and Student Affairs through communication and engagement with students in and out of the classroom.

  8. Goal 1 Promote integrated and engaged learning across the campus community, as advocated by the QEP.

  9. Goal 2 Facilitate opportunities to enhance student learning outcomes and educational experiences with significance, relevance, and enrichment.

  10. Goal 3 Promote integrated use of university resources.

  11. Goal 4 Strengthen the collaborative relationship between Academic and Student Affairs through communication and engagement with students in and out of the classroom.

  12. Projects for 2010-11 • Academic Learning Communities [piloting re-introduction] • Coordinator: Glenda Hensley • Pilot cohorts in place for fall semester [2] • Task groups collaborate with the cohorts • Transfer Student Success • Coordinator: Shawna Young • Transfer Advisory Group (TAG)

  13. FAQ’s: Academic Learning Communities An Academic Learning Community (ALC) --- • implements the Student Sense of Place and Integration of Knowledge Fundamental Principles. • fosters integrated learning environments. • provides a significant impact on learning outcomes. • consists of cohorts of students and instructors in a selection of grouped courses.   • provides students the opportunity to develop friendships and experience learning as a dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives. Students who choose to participate in a Learning Community must enroll in each defined linked course.  For example, it is not an option to take only one course of a community pair or trio.

  14. Goals: Academic Learning Communities • Encourage students to discover and appreciate relationships of disciplines and knowledge. • Provide a sense of place within the university community. • Encourage integrated and interdisciplinary teaching and learning designs, allowing connections through a holistic approach. • Provide a framework through which to participate in service learning, civic engagement, and creative scholarship opportunities. • Empower a successful transition into college life by creating strong connections to the new college environment. • Strengthen collaborative practice between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs.

  15. Learning Community Cohorts: F 2010 • LC01: Career Exploration and the Law This learning community will provide students with an overview and foundational understanding of the legal profession, law in the private and public sectors, and related government, corporate and nonprofit careers. • LC02: How Real is Race?: Race as a Psychological and Cultural Concept in Contemporary (post-racial?) America This learning community draws on resources in psychology and contemporary literature and film to construct responses to questions about the psychological and cultural concept of race.

  16. ALC & FLC (Faculty Learning Community) • Summer 2010: Teams from Academic Affairs and Student Affairs participated in a retreat in preparation to launch the ALC pilot and to discuss future strategies. • 2010-11: Established a Faculty Learning Community, hosted by the Coulter Faculty Commons, for this pilot. Those interested, may sign up in the CFC. • The FLC will provide a formal framework in which to build a sustainable program and to document the resulting scholarship. • Fall 2010: With two cohorts in place, we move forward with the commitment of many support units and programs.

  17. History - Transfer Advisory Group • In November 2009, the Retention Steering Committee invited representatives from Admission, Advising, Orientation, Registrar’s Office, and Education Outreach, to share their perspectives on the current status of transfer students • A key recommendation was to create a committee of offices involved with transfer student issues to specifically address the needs of transfer students

  18. Goals – Transfer Advisory Group • Engage stakeholders. • Investigate the state of the transfer student experience at WCU from a wide variety of perspectives. • Investigate best practices in higher education. • Create and implement an action plan to enhance the transfer student experience from admission to graduation.

  19. Representative Action Item – Transfer Advisory Group • The November 2009 meeting found that transfer students, community college counselors, and faculty find the Transfer Students Web site challenging to navigate. • A subgroup of the Transfer Advisory Group will create a site more specific to transfer students’ needs. • The redesign will begin only after the appropriate information and resources are available. • The redesign will be aided by the fall 2010 redesign of the Admission and Student Life websites.

  20. Action Model

  21. Re-visioned…. Student Affairs Partners In Student Learning Research Academic Affairs PSL Assessment Best Practice WCU Community

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