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1 | Goal 1: Promote integrated curricular, co-curricular, and living-learning undergraduate experiences that achieve UMD’s learning goals and prepare students for lifelong learning, globally engaged citizenship, and success in their academic, personal, and professional lives. | |||
2 | (Please write to umdplan@d.umn.edu to report additional activities related to an action step below) | |||
3 | Action Step | General Description of Activities | Person/ Group Responsible | Next steps |
4 | 1. Initiate campus-wide discussions to develop UMD’s philosophy of teaching and learning, which supports student achievement of UMD’s learning goals (October 2011). | Create, revise, and finalize statement with input from campus community | EVCAA (Jackie Millslagle; vision group 1); Lisa Erwin; Sync 1, 5, 7 | After being reviewed and revised by Goal 1 Discussion Groups and ISAT, philosophy was sent to Campus Assembly Committees for review and comment |
5 | 2. Establish undergraduate enrollment targets based on capacity to deliver quality programs, student and societal demands, academic preparation of incoming students, and tuition revenue needs (December 2011). | Establish enrollment management plan for ugrads, grads, CITS, etc.; Sync Goal 1 Steps 2 & 3, Goal 2 Step 2, and Goal 3 Step 5 | Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Council (Mary Keenan & Praveen Aggarwal, co-chairs) | Please see UMD SEM website for additional information and related reports (www.d.umn.edu/vcaa/sem/) |
6 | a. Conduct review of SEM best practices and research; | SEM Council (September 2011-ongoing) | ||
7 | b. Develop a set of guiding principles, assumptions, and questions to serve as a framework for sustainable enrollment outcomes for the campus; | SEM Council (completed November 2011) | ||
8 | c. Collect and review internal data pertaining to enrollment trends, student demographics, admission inquiry activity, student flows into and out of academic programs, and attrition and persistence rates; | SEM Council (September 2011-ongoing) | ||
9 | d. Collection and review of external data including projected number and makeup of MN high school graduates, available postsecondary educational options, and future occupation trends; | SEM Council (September 2011-ongoing) | ||
10 | e. Conduct undergraduate competitor analysis in order to identify UMD's strengths and weaknesses in comparison to our primary competitors for student enrollment; | SEM Council (completed January 2012) | ||
11 | f. Conduct meetings with administrative and department representatives of the five undergraduate collegiate unit to capture program-level perspectives on current and future enrollment trends; | SEM Council (Completed December 2011) | ||
12 | g. Conduct meetings with staff serving subpopulations, e.g. students of color, international students and nontraditional students, to identify enrollment opportunities; | SEM Council (Completed March 2012) | ||
13 | h. Integrate data, stakeholder perspectives, and strategic priorities to recommend campus-level undergraduate enrollment goals; | SEM Council (recommendations submitted May 2012) | ||
14 | i. Recommend priority strategies for achieving enrollment goals. | SEM Council (recommendations submitted May 2012) | ||
15 | 3. Identify, prioritize and assess activities, using tools such as the Student Success Strategy Map, that support student achievement of UMD’s learning goals, student success, satisfaction, and graduation rates (May 2012). | Student Affairs and SEM Council will review the Strategy map and data and make recommendations | SEM Council; Lisa Erwin | |
16 | In addition to items listed under Goal 1, Step 2: Administer the Undergraduate Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) to identify priorities for improving the student experience. | SEM Council (Completed December 2011) | ||
17 | 4. Develop and begin to implement a plan, including benchmarks, to create an integrated globally engaged campus (May, 2012). | Initiate activities in 2012-13 | ||
18 | 5. Encourage and support course redesign projects to include active learning strategies, best practices and alternate modes of delivery (December 2011). | Request proposals and offer workshops on course redesign | EVCAA (Andrea Schokker) Sync 1, 5, 7 | Seven grants awarded (see d.umn.edu/chancellor/ planning/grants.html) |
19 | 6. Implement the new liberal education program that meets liberal education goals and contributes to UMD’s learning goals (August 2012). | Liberal Education Implementation Committee completed work; Liberal Education faculty met three times to discuss issues | EVCAA (Molly Harney, Jerry Pepper) | Implement Liberal Education Program In September, 2012 |
20 | 7. Establish a comprehensive plan for learning and teaching support that includes initiatives such as a center of teaching and learning, a writing center, tutoring services, and a library commons area (August 2012). | Develop comprehensive plan | EVCAA (Andrea Schokker) Sync 1, 5, 7 | charge group to develop plan |
21 | 8. Refine and begin to implement a plan to provide effective, individualized academic and co-curricular advising for all students (December 2012). | Initiate activities in fall 2012 | ||