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Dr. Dennis Pruitt addressed the staff at the first division meeting of the fall 2014 semester.
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Division MeetingSeptember 5, 2014
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?
A learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights.
-Garvin (1993)
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?
Today’s Agenda
o Welcome new employeeso A quick look backo A focus on the universityo A focus on the divisiono Is college doomed?o Thoughts for reflection
Welcome !
to New Employees –
and Students!
Celebrating our Past Year…and preparing for the year to come
A sampling of: Major accomplishments Individuals making significant
contributions Contingency management for the year
and future
Our Commitment to the University’s Mission
On Your Time (OYT) USC Connect and GWLD OneCarolina Student Success Collaborative and
BTCMTM
Secure Carolina
Our Commitment to the University’s Mission
Addressing the Campus Rape Culture
Campus Safety Recruitment, Retention, and
Delivering on the Promise Calendaring Value added student experiences
Our Division’s Focus
• Strategic planning, assessment, and innovation
• Websites• First-year study• Division master facilities plan• OneCarolina
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
“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)
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
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)
Changes
• Is college doomed?• Are we expected to cure “all of
societies ills?”• Freedom to travel, phone fixes,
cameras and transparency• Creating the magic
8 Simple Rules1. 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.
8 Simple Rules5. 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)
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?
A learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights.
- Garvin (1993)
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?
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.