2012 Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments

Faculty Leadership for the 21st Century

July 11-15, 2012
The University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

Resources for 2012 Participants

• Full Program
• Schedule at a Glance
• Brochure
• Faculty biographies - an introduction to the Institute consultants
• Logistics document for participants
• How to make the most of the Institute - information on the resources that will be available
• University of Vermont campus map and Davis Center floorplans - zoomed in with Institute locations highlighted
• Evaluation form

Cross Leadership Institute

• Lee Knefelkamp interviews K. Patricia Cross Video (mp4)

Session presentations and handouts

• Jo Beld
  • Actionable Assessment in Academic Programs: Principles and Practices for Usable Results Presentation
    • Handout
  • Enhancing Faculty Engagement in Assessing Student Learning Presentation
• J. Elizabeth Clark
  • Evolving Departmental Culture from Silos to Connection Presentation
    • Handout
• J. Elizabeth Clark, Kelly Mack, and Kenny Morrell
  • From My Course to Our Course: The Role of Faculty in Linking Outcomes at Course, Department, and Institutional Levels Presentation
  • Taking it Home Presentation
• Susan Elrod
  • Aligning Leadership Efforts to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Learning: From Innovation to Institutionalization Handout
• Susan Elrod and Anny Morrobel-Sosa
  • Undergraduate STEM Education: National Reports and Local Contexts Presentation
    • Handout
• Dee Fink
  • Promoting Integrative Learning Across the Whole Campus Handout
  • Developing Faculty Capabilities to Support Integrative Learning Handouts
• JK Haynes
  • Leading the Sciences in Integrative Learning: The Importance of Institutional Structure and Planning in Achieving Integrative Learning Presentation
• Marilyn Kurata
  • Integrating the Core Curriculum across Disciplines Handout
  • Capstones: The Ultimate Integrative Learning Handout
• Jean Mach
  • Integrative Learning without Borders: Ideas for Tearing Down those Walls Presentation
    • Handout
  • Assignments that Count: Strategies for Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, Civic Learning, and Quantitative Literacy across the Disciplines Presentation
    • Handout
• Carol Geary Schneider
  • Opening Plenary - Remapping Liberal Education: The Integrative Work of the College Major Presentation
    • Handout
  • What is the Degree Qualifications Profile? Presentation
    • Handout
• Hazel Symonette
  • Make Assessment Work for You and Your Student Success Vision: It Works If You Work It! Handouts
    • A Leader's Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone Handout
    • Excerpt from Michael Quinn Patton's book Getting to Maybe, Random House Canada, 2006
• Hazel Symonette and Ashley Finley
  • Using Logic Models to Connect the Dots: Imaging Pathways for Student Sucess
    • Excerpt from Tom Grayson, 2008 NASPA Pre‐Conference Workshop, Using Logic Models for
      Identifying Program Goals and Student Learning Outcomes Handout
    • Teaching Spheres of Influence: Outputs and Outcomes Handout
    • The ABCDs of Writing Instructional Objectives Handout

General readings 

• College Learning for the New Global Century - Executive Summary with business leader survey findings (PDF)
• Peer Review Winter 2010 - Engaging Departments: Assessing Student Learning (PDF).
• Lumina Foundation's The Degree Qualifications Profile (Jan. 2011; PDF)

Track-specific readings 

Track 2: Integrative Learning as a Hallmark of 21st-Century Liberal Education

• PCAST report link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf
• National Academies DBER report link: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13362

Track 3: Building Capacity for Authentic Assessment

• Robert B. Barr and John Tagg, From Teaching to Learning – A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education
  http://ilte.ius.edu/pdf/BarrTagg.pdf
• Thomas Grayson, “Program Evaluation in Higher Education,” forthcoming book chapter shared with permission of the author.
  http://www.aacu.org/meetings/engaging_depts/documents/ProgramEvaluationChapterFinalDraftSubmitted5-15-2011.pdf
• Maurianne Adams et al, “A Multidimensional Approach to Faculty Development: Understanding the Teaching-Learning Process”, http://diversityweb.org/Digest/W99/multidimensional.html
• Teacher-centered vs. Learner-centered paradigms http://assessment.uconn.edu/docs/TeacherCenteredVsLearnerCenteredParadigms.pdf
• Hazel Symonette,  “Cultivating Self As Responsive Instrument for Inclusive Excellence and Success for All” {Excerpt}, https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-46172812_1-t_XqHHcLV9

AAC&U National Initiatives 

This year’s institute will include leaders from the following AAC&U initiatives and projects:

• Bringing Theory to Practice
• Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility
• Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP)
• Making Excellence Inclusive
• Preparing Critical Faculty for the Future
• Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)
• VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education)

Resources on Integrative Learning

Integrative Learning Rubric
As part of AAC&U’s VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) project, teams of faculty and other academic and student affairs professionals engaged in an iterative, 18-month process of developing institutional-level rubrics for 15 learning outcomes, including an Integrative Learning Rubric. All 15 rubrics are available free for downloading here.

Integrative Learning Practices, LEAP Campus Toolkit

Project Kaleidoscope's What Works in Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning in Science and Mathematics Summary Report

Liberal Education issue on Integrative Learning at Home and Abroad (fall 2010) (selected articles available online)

Resources from the October 2009 Network for Academic Renewal Conference, “Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities” (scroll through program for embedded resources)

“Leading Initiatives for Integrative Learning” by Mary Taylor Huber, Pat Hutchings, Richard Gale, Ross Miller, and Molly Breen, Liberal Education (fall 2007)

“Technology and Integrative Learning: Enabling Serendipitous Connectivity Across Courses,” by David E. Shi, Peer Review (fall 2006)

Resources from the October 2005 Network for Academic Renewal Conference, “Integrative Learning: Creating Opportunities to Connect” (scroll through program for embedded resources)

Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain, by Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings (2005)

Peer Review issue on Integrative Learning (summer/fall 2005)

“A Statement on Integrative Learning,” by AAC&U and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2004)