Academic Affairs Retreat
April 11, 2007
1:00-4:00
Provost Mark Workman – Welcome
Academic Affairs initiatives 2006-07
Annual Report Guidelines
Demonstration of Strategic Planning Software (to be posted)
Introduction of Dr. Ted Marchese, Senior Consultant, Academic Search
and former Vice President, AAHE
Biography: http://www.academic-search.com/bmarchese.html
Dr. Ted Marchese
National conversations on Assessment, Accreditation and
Accountability - The Spellings Commission Report
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/final-
report.pdf
Information or references to literature:
College Opportunities Online Locator (COOL):
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/
IPEDS College Opportunities Online Locator is your direct link to
nearly 7,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you
are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a
specialized college, a community college, a career or technical
college or a trade school, you can find information on all of them
all here.
National Academies Press: “How People Learn”
In December 1998, the National Research Council released How
People Learn, a report that synthesizes research on human
learning. The research put forward in the report has important
implications for how our society educates: for the design of
curricula, instruction, assessments, and learning environments.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational
Research and Improvement (OERI), which funded How People
Learn, has posed the next question: What research and
development could help incorporate the insights from the report
into classroom practice? Responding to that question is the focus
of this report.
“How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice” (1999)
Read free online:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309065364
“How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School” (2000)
Read free online:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309070368
“How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom” (2005)
Read free online:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309089492
Attention to Completion Rates
What should be taught? Harvard’s debate on curriculum
reform
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/08/harvard
Carnegie Conversations: “Whatever Happened to
Undergraduate Reform?” Ted Marchese
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/sub.asp?key=245
&subkey=1736
Question and Answers – general
Social Hour