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Creating A Climate of Continuous Improvement

AQIP Categories:1: Helping Students Learn2: Accomplishing Other Distinctive Objectives3: Students and Other Stakeholder Needs4: Valuing People5: Leading and Communicating6: Supporting Institutional Operations7: Measuring Effectiveness8. Planning Continuous Improvement9: Building Collaborative Relationships

Top Three Areas for Improvement: 1.Helping Students Learn7.Measuring Effectiveness9.Building Collaborative Relationships

Most Critical Category1: Helping Students Learn

The Charge…..Establish a campaign, according to the most critical area that would drive the institution forward over the next three – four years.

This charge, will result in multiple AQIP projects and categories aligned to one single goal related to “Helping Students Learn”.

Visioning the Future we Want to Achieve:1.High % of graduates employed2.Every program has an advisory board3.Program Assessment has consequences4.Every student is exposed to an internship5.Faculty drive program improvement initiative6.Marketing is easier7.Increased graduation and retention rate8.Students appreciate and understand relevance of courses9.Unique features of programs10.Better relationship with communities11.New friends are identified and cultivated12.Higher investment in professional development13.Resources aligned to priority

Visioning our Future

Communication Skills, Writing Skills, Critical Thinking, Content Skilled

Career Ready & Competitive

Strategies for Improvement:1.Create a Model2.Secure Resources3.Faculty Release Time/Professional Development4.Partnership with Business/Industry5.Faculty Drive Initiatives 6.Showcase student work

Action Project Charter:

Campaign:

To better prepare students to be critical thinkers and career ready by implementing Experiential Learning

throughout the curriculum

Experiential LearningExperiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience.[1] Simply put, Experiential Learning is learning from experience. The experience can be staged or left open. Aristotle once said, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."[2] David A. Kolb helped to popularize the idea of experiential learning drawing heavily on the work of John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget. His work on experiential learning has contributed greatly to expanding the philosophy of experiential education. Staged experiential learning is often called a Dynamic Learning Experience (DLE) in certain high hazard industries.[citation needed]

Experiential education is a philosophy of education that describes the process that occurs between a teacher and student that infuses direct experience with the learning environment and content.[1

Wikipedia

Examples:•Competency Based Learning•Service Learning•Project Based Learning (LEAP)•Outside Learning Experiences•Lab Experiences•Internship•Cooperative •Community Based•Research •Mock Activities

Experiential Learning

Benefits:Retention of Student LearningApplication of LearningAnalysis of LearningSynthesis of LearningIncreased OpportunitiesBroader Perspective

Develop Better Prepared Student

More Benefits:Increased Completion Rate (Retention)Enrollment (better reputation)Enhancement of CurriculumSignature Elements of ProgramsDirect Community InvolvementDevelop a Choice University

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