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Sept. 5, 2014 Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support meeting
This document summarizes the agenda and topics discussed at a division meeting at the University of Carolina in September 2014. The meeting included welcoming new employees, reflecting on accomplishments in the past year, and discussing the university's mission and strategic priorities. It also addressed ensuring student success through retention, graduation rates, employment outcomes and developing lifelong learners. Concerns were raised about whether higher education is facing a "crumbling paradigm" and the meeting discussed strategies for adapting to changing performance criteria and student needs through learning organizations and understanding student perspectives.
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- 1. Division Meeting September5, 2014
- 3. Thoughts for Reflection • What will a future graduate of Carolina look like? • What am I doing in my work area to contribute to achieving our university’s mission? • What am I doing to learn more about and understand our students and their college environment? • How am I participating in “learning organizations” to learn about and utilize best educational and business practices?
- 4. A learning organizationis an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. -Garvin (1993)
- 5. Thoughts for Reflection • In what ways am I engaged in my own professional and personal development that adds value to my contributions to my work, my family, and my community? • In what ways do I model behavior for our students?
- 6. Today’s Agenda oWelcome new employees o A quick look back o A focus on the university o A focus on the division o Is college doomed? o Thoughts for reflection
- 7. Welcome ! toNew Employees – and Students!
- 8. Celebrating our PastYear …and preparing for the year to come A sampling of: Major accomplishments Individuals making significant contributions Contingency management for the year and future
- 9. Our Commitment tothe University’s Mission On Your Time (OYT) USC Connect and GWLD OneCarolina Student Success Collaborative and BTCMTM Secure Carolina
- 10. Our Commitment tothe University’s Mission Addressing the Campus Rape Culture Campus Safety Recruitment, Retention, and Delivering on the Promise Calendaring Value added student experiences
- 11. Our Division’s Focus • Strategic planning, assessment, and innovation • Websites • First-year study • Division master facilities plan • OneCarolina
- 12. Our Division’s Focus • BIG DATA: high tech-higher TOUCH • The cost of high risk student behavior • Student populations and programs to scale • Student employability • Personal and professional development • Graduate student services
- 13. “A ‘crumbling paradigm’is a condition in which an institution or industry has outlasted its operating assumptions. The condition is detected when the business or the mission results of an industry or a company within an industry are flat or declining while more and more resources are consumed. When this happens, the institution or industry goes into an irreversible decline until a new operating model takes its place.” - Lopez (2013)
- 14. New Performance Criteria • Freshman to sophomore retention rates • Sophomore to senior persistence rates • Graduation rates • Length of time to degree • Placement • Gainful employment • Manageable debt • Institutional default rates • Value added • Life-long learner • # of Pell Grant recipients NEXT: Transferability
- 15. Astin’s Input -Environment - Outcomes Model INPUT ENVIRONMENT OUTCOMES • Undergraduate enrollment • Average SAT • Persistence • Graduation • Employability WTC – Degree Programs, Courses BTC Matters - Involvement • Student Affairs & Academic Support • Undergraduate Research • International Programs o Internships o Service o Leadership • 24,000+ undergraduates • 5,046 new freshmen • Average SAT score: 1207 - Astin (1993)
- 17. Changes • Iscollege doomed? • Are we expected to cure “all of societies ills?” • Freedom to travel, phone fixes, cameras and transparency • Creating the magic
- 18. 8 Simple Rules 1. Teach the students you have, not the ones you think you should have. 2. The university can make you the instructor of record for a given course, but it cannot make you any student’s teacher. Only the student can make you her teacher, by accepting you in that role. 3. Never say you teach the subject matter, not the students. The subject matter has nothing to learn from you. 4. The work you do for a course is less important than the work your students do. They learn less from it.
- 19. 8 Simple Rules 5. It is essential to challenge your students, but it isn’t enough. You must also believe in them, encourage them, and guide their efforts. 6. We all want to believe we have some share in our students’ successes. Their failures we tend to regard as their own. Rethink this. 7. Do not defend yourself against students’ responses to your teaching. Seek out their perceptions and work to comprehend them. Boredom, anger, silence, helplessness, apathy, rudeness, and resentment are all messages waiting to be decoded. 8. Make learning fun. - Miller (2014)
- 20. Thoughts for Reflection • What will a future graduate of Carolina look like? • What am I doing in my work area to contribute to achieving our university’s mission? • What am I doing to learn more about and understand our students and their college environment? • How am I participating in “learning organizations” to learn about and utilize best educational and business practices?
- 21. A learning organizationis an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. - Garvin (1993)
- 22. Thoughts for Reflection • In what ways am I engaged in my own professional and personal development that adds value to my contributions to my work, my family, and my community? • In what ways do I model behavior for our students?
- 23. References • Astin,A. (1993). Assessment for excellence: The philosophy and practice of assessment and evaluation in higher education. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press. • Garvin, David. “Building a Learning Organization.” Harvard Business Review July 1993: 78-92. • Lopez, Jorge. “How to Create Competitive Advantage by Evaluating Crumbling Paradigms.” Gartner.com, 29 Mar. 2013. Web. • Miller, David. University of South Carolina Center for Digital Humanities and English Professor.