Post on 27-Mar-2015
Using Evidence to Strengthen Stories
New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative
Spring Meeting 2004
Daniel Teraguchi, Assistant Director, NJCDI, AAC&U
Flow of PresentationStorylines:
Portals of Change (Micro) & Institutional Change (Macro)
Institutional Framework of Change
Storylines
George Kuh and Associates, in their article, “Aligning Faculty Activities and Student Behavior: Realizing the Promise of Greater Expectations,” argue that increased levels of student engagement result in higher levels of achievement.
Liberal Education (Fall 2004; available at: www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-fa04/le-fa04feature2.cfm).
Framework for Identifying Data Sources and Documenting Progress
Drawing from Daryl G. Smith’s Work (1997)Educational Coherence
(curricular, co-curricular, & Community
Connections)
Student Access and
Success
Commitment and Capacity
Campus Climate
Student Learning
Draft of Steps in a Comprehensive Communication Plan
•Step 1: Develop communications strategies to generate support from selected constituencies for efforts that use diversity as an educational and societal resource.
•Step 2: Identify data sources to generate campus stories. •Step 3: Place campus stories within a mission-centered framework and
document progress towards the four institutional goals defined above.
•Step 4: Identify the appropriate types of communication products (i.e., brochure, newspaper article, academic article, or Web page) to present and disseminate campus stories
•Step 5: Apply the learning from the evaluation to planning next-level goals and activities.