Goal 1: Work for the benefit of all stakeholders in SoE programs.
Student Success
Goal 1: Work for the benefit of all stakeholders in SoE programs.
Strategies
- Ensure that all members of the SoE community are supported to thrive personally and professionally. This support should encompass how we market to and recruit new students, advise and mentor students in programs, and advocate for additional support for students who need it including during their field placements.
- Create a position for a student services representative to advise, mentor, and support students to increase retention.
- Increase scholarships, fellowships, and grants to support students.
- Reexamine currently existing application protocols and application processes to ensure broad participation in our programs.
Strategies:
- Hold faculty workshops on course design, including learning outcomes, assessment practices, course resources and activities, and student support and offer incentives for faculty to attend these workshops.
- Add a required open-ended question to the SOE course evaluations relating to how well students feel their instructors cfeated a welcoming and supportive learning environment.
- Dedicate resources to collect and report department level data on classroom climate and teaching practices.
Strategies:
- Provide affordable opportunities for students to experience a range of in and out of class cultural experiences including short-term study abroad opportunities.
- Work toward a greater number of students participating in the Global Gateway for Teachers program.
Strategies:
- Advocate for transparent screening and hiring practices at all position levels (tenure and non-tenure track faculty and adjuncts, support and professional staff, part-time, and full-time), including how job opportunities are posted and advertised, negotiated, and offered.
- Increase efforts to recruit and retain faculty and staff in the SoE.
- Continually refine a search ""toolkit"" of comprehensive guidelines for faculty searches and explore creative options to attract faculty from a wide range of backgrounds.
Goal 2: Evaluate issues of availability and affordability of high quality pre-service and professional development programs in the SOE, address issues by revisioning existing programs and adding new ones while maintaining our reputation as a leading school of education.
Strategies:
- Seek additional scholarship funding for undergraduates and master’s degree students from donors, agencies, and foundations that support the preparation of education professionals.
- Increase the number of fellowships and student-academic contracts available to doctoral students.
Strategies:
- Revise some existing programs and courses and create new ones that are offered evenings and weekends, part-time, and/or fully online.
- Create affordable pathways to earn credentials that can stack together towards the earning of master’s degrees.
- Streamline the approval process for launching new courses and programs, while maintaining the care and integrity of the process to assure high quality.
- Actively identify and regularly celebrate successful and innovative ways this goal has been addressed and achieved among the SOE community.
- Work with the Faculty Affairs and Development committees to address faculty merit review structures that will better honor the work of creating greater accessibility of courses and programs, and for teaching and advising within them.
- Adjust staffing patterns for after-hours and evening virtual advising and meetings with student support personnel for non-resident and working students.
Strategies:
- Increase resources available to help students succeed by investing in and growing a student ambassador program with greater focus on serving online students.
- Use data to proactively identify ways to improve student success.
- Consistently increase student enrollments through innovative recruitment practices.
- Involve more faculty and education professionals in local, state, and professional organizations in the recruiting process.
Goal 3: Build upon current initiatives and encourage the development of new majors, minors, certificates, and other professional development opportunities that utilize existing courses and components of established programs across the School of 黑马磁力 and campus wide.
Strategies:
- Conduct market research including peer institutions to establish the need and feasibility of new accelerated master’s degree programs, as well as non-teaching majors and minors targeting students in and outside the state of Indiana.
- Include educational professionals and other stakeholders with faculty and staff in determining the need for and considering the feasibility of addressing these needs with high quality coursework and programs.
- Incentivize the faculty through summer support, course buyouts or other appropriate means to engage in this work.
- Identify ways to fairly compensate faculty for coordination of existing and new programs.
Strategies:
- Establish a web-based application system through which individuals can apply to be considered for part-time, short-term contract work.
- Create and maintain a database of names, contact information, and vitae of individuals interested in and qualified to teach, and/or to supervise field. experiences, student teaching, independent research projects, and internships, and to serve on master’s and EdD research committees.
Goal 4: Become a leader in the design and use of technology-enhanced active learning spaces to support high-quality teaching.
Strategies:
- Leverage IU’s Mosaic Active Learning initiative to ensure all classrooms in the Wright 黑马磁力 building have modern furniture and current technology to support active learning.
- Study use of the experimental classroom spaces in the Wright 黑马磁力 building to identify and share best practices.
- Lead the evolution of course design through dissemination of impactful research.