Enhancing Student Success through the Second Year Experience at L.O.U.I.S.VI.L.L.E.ED.U
Explore the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) implemented at L.O.U.I.S.VI.L.L.E.ED.U to support second-year students in finding their fit through inquiry, exploration, and discovery. Learn about the development process, challenges faced in the sophomore year, and strategies to engage and support students effectively.
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Introduction to the 2017 Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Find Your Fit in the Second Year: Inquire, Explore, Discover Staff Senate Meeting December 12, 2016 Patty Payette, Ph.D. Executive Director, Ideas to Action Senior Associate Director, Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
What is a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)? Why does it matter? L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
Where did we begin? Institutional data & student learning data L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
Our QEP development process used by the QEP Development Committee Best Key campus partners practices and scholarship Institutional priorities and programs Our data about students & student learning QEP Input from campus constituents & partnership with key campus offices L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
LIFE WAS SO SIMPLE WHEN I WAS A FIRST-YEAR STUDENT L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
What changes in the second-year? (aka the sophomore slump ) Identity Crisis L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
What can we do to support second-year Students? 1. Actively engage students in the second year & normalize the common challenges 2. Create opportunities for exploration 3. Support them finding ways to connect 4. Invite discovery L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
Our proposed QEP: Find Your Fit in the Second Year: Inquire, Explore, Discover Features include: 1. 3-credit hour course (elective hours) 2. Taught by faculty with a coordinated integrative advising component 3. Small seminar format 4. Independent, inquiry-guided intellectual activities focused around an academically-rich theme or topic 5. Recruitment of second year students who are undecided, pre-unit or are in transition L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
What about i2a? Our first QEP, 10 year launch 2014-2016 Assessment Plan with all undergraduate programs Critical thinking integration across curriculum Culminating Undergraduate Experience (CUE) courses in place Ongoing support for integration from the QEP/i2a staff team in the Delphi Center L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
QEP Faculty Work Group, Fall 2016 Brian Barnes, Philosophy, A&S Justin Cooper, Special Education, CEHD Rob Detmering, Information Literacy Coordinator, University Libraries Paul Himes, Biology, A&S J.C. McNeil (Jaqi), Dept. of Engineering Fundamentals, Speed School Dwain Pruitt, Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Governance, A&S Kate Snyder, Department of Counseling and Human Development, CEHD L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
Whats next? Outreach & feedback forums wrapping up Faculty Work Group develops curriculum Student survey data & Student Advisory Team Refinement/development of the QEP project & seminar Course approval in ECPY: March-April 2017 QEP Proposal due to SACS Preparing for SACS visit First offering of QEP seminar, Spring 2018 L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
How you can support us Identify faculty & staff in your unit who will have interest/expertise to support the QEP. Help us spread the word about the QEP process & project to your unit and encourage participation in the all-campus QEP info sessions: L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
How to get engaged: Talk to us! uofl.me/QEP2017 QEP2017@louisville.edu L O U I SVI L L E.ED U
