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Global Leadership Initiative

Explore UM's distinctive learning experience aligning with the 2020 plan, incorporating best practices like seminars, experiential learning, and capstone projects to increase student retention. Learn about the program's impact, challenges, and statistics.

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Global Leadership Initiative

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  1. Global Leadership Initiative A distinctive learning experience for UM students

  2. History • Enrichment program that aligns with UM 2020 • 4-year cumulative plan that incorporates multiple educational ‘best practices’: freshman seminars, experiential learning, capstone projects • One goal is to increase retention of ‘average’ student  program is NOT selective • Current curricular components are treated as experimental courses • ‘Experimental’ phase now in 3rd year, supported by private philanthropy

  3. Statistics • Demographics • 67% female • 52% in-state • 25% honors students • 89% Caucasian

  4. Campus impact • Faculty involvement: 36 freshman seminars taught by 35 faculty across 24 units • Fiscal impact: no general-funds budget are being spent; departments and faculty have received a total of $285,000 to develop and teach freshman seminars, which works out to ~$490/student. Expected cost of capstone seminar is ~$500/student. • Retention: students in GLI are retained at 10-16 percentage points higher rate than comparable ‘average’ UM students.

  5. Challenges • Suboptimal retention in the GLI program of entering students during freshman year = 66%. Once past the freshman year, they tend to stay (e.g., 81% in sophomore year). Can we devise ways to better engage or support students to encourage staying in program? • Slow start to junior class involvement in experiential learning and esp. study abroad. How can we facilitate/encourage/prepare them to make this leap?

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