Academic Affairs Retreat Monday, August 1, 2011

Thank you Rummy Pandit and the entire Seaview staff!

Division Planning

Opportunities and challenges

Think “institutionally” – beyond individual programs, schools, departments, divisions

Enthusiastic and thorough response

Division Planning

15 Divisional Goals to President

Shaped in large part from last year’s Academic Affairs Retreat

Supported by 230 goals and tasks from schools, offices, departments

Division Planning

Fall Faculty Conference

Three goals directly from last year’s retreat

Your opinions count; your ideas will be heard

Today’s Retreat

Division of Academic Affairs

Division of Student Affairs

Prepare students to assume their roles as productive members of society

Essential Learning Outcomes

“From a broad, conceptual

viewpoint, what do we want

our students to learn?”

Essential Learning Outcomes

All-inclusive, non-disciplinary, holistic perspective

Prepare students to meet 21st Century challenges

Explain Stockton’s specialness to everyone we serve

Fall Faculty Conference Goal

“We will focus on ensuring that all graduates acquire a set of essential learning outcomes critical for 21st Century success. These outcomes will combine a robust and flexible liberal arts education with adaptive, marketable skills.”

Today’s Goal

Begin formulating a set of Essential Learning Outcomes

First step along a path that will continue beyond today’s retreat

Essential Learning Outcomes

1. Essential Learning Outcomes

involve imperative skills that

enable and empower our

students.

Essential Learning Outcomes

ELOs serve as the link between internal thoughts and external actions

Provide resonance to “The Stockton Idea”

Make the implicit, explicitMake the invisible, visibleMake the intangible, tangible

Essential Learning Outcomes

2. This manifestation will not only

aid the campus community;

it will serve as a primer to

external stakeholders as well.

Essential Learning Outcomes

“Life skills” is shorthand for the very intellectual talents we cherish as academic professionals

ELOs will serve as the “touch point”

Essential Learning Outcomes

3. Essential Learning Outcomes

provide us with a starting

point for transparency and

intentionality.

Essential Learning Outcomes

Integrity, not just compliance

Are we doing what we say we are doing?

Are we doing it with quality?

Essential Learning Outcomes

4. Essential Learning Outcomes

will help us strengthen the

connection between strategic

planning and resource

allocation.

Essential Learning Outcomes

Will not reduce faculty autonomy

Will not impinge upon academic freedom

Will not add more work

Essential Learning Outcomes

Will not impose academic regulations

Will not dictate teaching methods

Will not police performance at the course, program, or school level

Essential Learning Outcomes

ELOs will not change Stockton’s education

They will help articulate and clarify the value of Stockton’s education

Getting Started

2011 Dean’s Retreat (June): 47 ELOs prioritized down to 19

Our goal today: “Top 10” list

This does not eliminate the use of any ELO deemed important by any faculty member

Getting Started

From AACU’s LEAP initiative:

What skills, capacities, and knowledge will prepare our students – whatever their educational goals – for the complex, diverse, and interdependent world of the 21st Century?

What steps can we take to make sure these outcomes are widely known and owned by the entire campus community?