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FOR ACADEMIC INNOVATION Team Proposals Due March 9, 2009! Give your vital academic change
projects the focused attention, expert consulting, and fresh perspective they
need for maximum results, while saving precious institutional resources. Bringing about real educational advancement is
tough. Whatever your current priorities—raising student retention and
achievement, using assessment data to promote student learning outcomes,
strengthening general education or an academic major, building support for
first-generation students, revitalizing mid-career faculty, or another
project—finding the time and resources to put a collaborative effort on the fast
track is challenging, ensuring that the plan is solid and securing broad campus
support even more so. Since 1990, however, numerous campus teams have built
valuable momentum and success for their educational change projects at The
Collaboration’s Institute for Academic Innovation. For more information on this event, please download a pdf version of the full brochure. Examples of Previous Team Projects Asuza Pacific University Designed
mentoring system linking members of the university’s assessment committee with
department chairs Refined
plans for the Learning Communities Program, including a vision, communications,
and leadership coalition of academic and student affairs Revised
the Ethnic America class to reflect ethnic and immigrant populations,
incorporate active learning, and align education programs Developed
outcomes and assessment strategies for writing, technology, and information
literacy “across the curriculum” programs Created
plan to engage faculty in clarifying general education learning outcomes and
implementing demonstration projects in assessment Planned a
multi-faceted, flexible program of civic learning experiences to Developed
a comprehensive strategy to increase student retention focused on the first-year
experience Planned a
strategy for transforming institutional culture through Formulated a plan to increase the retention, graduation rates, and success of underrepresented students through K-16 partnerships |