2024 Institute on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment

Forming a Team and Creating a Strong Application

The application period is now closed.

Insitute Campus Teams

We recommend that a team consist of a team leader and four team members. We encourage you to select a senior academic as your team lead; however, this is not a requirement for participation in this institute. Teams should include a diverse set of colleagues from a variety of areas on your campus. They may include a senior academic officer, faculty members, assessment/institutional research professionals, key members from your institution’s center for teaching and learning (faculty/educational developers, instructional designers), career services professionals, advisors, student affairs professionals for co-curricular initiatives/high-impact educational practices, and/or others with logical and active roles in advancing general education, teaching, learning, and assessment on campus. Although not restricted, a typical team size would consist of five individuals.

Application

The online application consists of an information section and responses to the following prompts:

    • What led your institution to apply to the Institute? If your institution has attended the Institute in the past, how does the work you want to accomplish this year relate to past participation? (100 words)
    • Please summarize your institution’s most recent efforts to improve general education, pedagogy, and/or assessment, including which individuals/groups were involved. (100 words)
    • Which of the following best describes the stage of your current reform efforts related to general education, pedagogy, and/or assessment (Select One)?
      • Initial campus conversations
      • Evaluating existing curricula and/or outcomes
      • Agreement on a unified vision and/or plan for reform(s)
      • Initial implementation of reform(s)
      • Scaling up reform(s)/change(s)
      • Assessing the results of reform(s)/change(s)
      • Using assessment results to inform future directions/improvement
    • What are some of the resource and/or political issues at play in the reform process? (100 words)
    • How does participation in the Institute align with your institution’s current strategic priorities? (75 words)

  • In the space provided below, please describe how the work of your institution will focus on each of the following design principles:

    • Proficiency - Clear institutional statements of desired learning outcomes
    • Equity - Advancing equitable learning outcomes across student populations
    • Agency and Self-Direction - Students as active participants in the educational process
    • Integrative Learning/Problem-Based Inquiry - Integration of all learning at the institution including curricular, co-curricular, and community-based learning
    • Transparency and Assessment - Evidence-based demonstrations of student proficiency

    • What are your goal(s) for the Institute? (75 words)
    • What data will you use to evaluate attainment of these goals? (75 words)

    • What are your Top Three Needs/Concerns vis-à-vis General Education, Pedagogy and/or Assessment reform?
      • Active learning/pedagogical strategies
      • Communication strategies
      • Course-embedded assessment
      • Developing learning outcomes
      • Embedding high-impact educational practices in general education
      • Equity-minded policies and practices
      • Integration of curricular and co-curricular learning
      • Making excellence inclusive
      • Navigating campus politics/cultural issues
      • Navigating governance/campus policies
      • Overall assessment/evaluation plan and/or process
      • Rubric selection/use
      • Student learning outcomes
      • Supporting historically underserved students’ success
      • Other (please specify)
    • Please elaborate on your selections (300 words)

    • What is your rationale for choosing the members of your campus team? What roles do you envision each person playing in your reform efforts? How will your team structure influence the work done after the Institute? (300 words)
    • What do you believe your team can contribute to the Institute? Please choose your Top Three.
      • Active learning/pedagogical strategies
      • Communication strategies
      • Course-embedded assessment
      • Developing learning outcomes
      • Embedding high-impact educational practices in general education
      • Equity-minded policies and practices
      • Integration of curricular and co-curricular learning
      • Making excellence inclusive
      • Navigating campus politics/cultural issues
      • Navigating governance/campus policies
      • Overall assessment/evaluation plan and/or process
      • Prior experiences and work (whether successfully implemented, still in progress, or currently being revisited)
      • Rubric selection/use
      • Successful development of student learning outcomes
      • Supporting historically underserved students’ success
      • Unique qualities of your institution
      • Other (please specify)
    • Please elaborate on your selections (300 words)

Questions?

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