1. CURRICULUM/ CO-CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY January 24, 2013

2. Workshop Goals  Understand variety of frameworks for connecting curricular and co-curricular  Learn about existing curricular/co-curricular connections at KU  Identify new specific opportunities to connect curricular to co-curricular experiences to help reinforce KU’s general education goals

3. Context  UNL land grant institution  24,593 students (total)  19,354 undergrads  Revised gen ed program  10 outcomes adapted from Essential Learning Outcomes (LEAP)

4. Procedure/Methodology  Add your procedure here  Key assumptions  Add your assumptions here https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B2gc5cYmgha- eEJoUzJrM1BMdFU/edit

5. Mission of higher education  Role larger than training students for careers  Original purpose – educate good citizens  Prepare students as citizens in a diverse democracy and interdependent world (Boyer)  Demands from employers (LEAP) Connect our gen ed goals to our higher mission

6.  Goal 1: To cultivate intellectual and practical skills…  Goal 2: To develop an understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world…  Goal 3: To inculcate a sense of personal and social responsibility that is anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real world challenges General Education Goals

7. Gen ed blueprint: Reinforcing the structure  Assumption: Students don’t generally accomplish an outcome by taking one course or having one co-curricular experience.  Goal for building gen ed programs: “Educators [should] make the essential learning outcomes a framework for the entire educational experience, connecting school, college, work and life” – LEAP Principle of Excellence  Organizing question: How can we become architects building toward LEAP’s goal of an integrated education? Reinforcing the foundation?

8. Three models Linking gen ed to big questions throughout educational experience – inside and outside the classroom 1. Curriculum-infused 2. Parallel/distributed experiences 3. Co-curricular credit bearing experiences

9. Model 1: Curriculum-infused  Courses & Service-Learning Courses Environmental Engagement in the Community Building Environmental Technical Systems Communities and Schools in Costa Rica Nebraska Mosaic Cross-cultural Mentoring Art in the Community

14. Model 2: Parallel/distributed experiences  Experiences tied to SLOs that may or may not occur in courses  Leadership  Internships  Learning communities  Alternative service breaks

19. Model 3: Co-curricular credit-bearing experiences  Undergraduate research  Undergraduate research within departments  REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates)  Study abroad  Military service  Certificate in Civic Engagement  University of Nebraska

20. Nebraska’s Experience Certificate in Civic Engagement  Goal: Connect what students learn in and outside their classroom to real-world issues  Solution: Certificate in Civic Engagement  Key Characteristics:  Student Affairs & Academic Affairs collaboration  Builds on existing resources, gen ed  Challenges:  Create processes for approval  Overcome prevailing prejudices

21. Nebraska’s Experience Certificate in Civic Engagement

22. Nebraska’s Experience Study Abroad  Goal: Promote high impact practice  Solution: Clear brush from curricular path  Key Characteristics:  Focused on promoting global, civic outcomes  Part of students’ education, not fun vacation  Counts toward graduation/parental buy-in  Challenges:  Gain buy-in across campus  Keeping process simple

23. What are the challenges at KU?  What are the promising high impact practices (curricular and co-curricular) that could reinforce your gen ed goals?  HIPs: Capstones, Collaborative assignments & projects, common intellectual experiences, diversity and global learning, 1 st -year seminars and experiences, internships, learning communities, service learning, undergraduate research, writing-intensive courses  What challenges do you expect to encounter?  How is this work implemented and sustained?

24. Building co-curricular/curricular collaborations 10:45 a.m.-11:30 a.m.  Visit stations to shop for opportunities to collaborate  Goal: Identify a collaboration that might work to support General Education GOAL 3 11:30 a.m.-noon  Share ideas (Learning outcome and Collaboration)

25. Make it happen 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.  Identify Learning Outcomes  Identify model  Who are the partners?  What challenges do you anticipate?  How will you overcome them?  What resources do you have/need to make this happen?  How will these efforts be sustained?  How will the collaboration be assessed?  What is the timeline?

26. Workshop Wrap Up  Share blueprints  Questions/comments

27.  ©2007 The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved. Nancy Mitchell Director of Undergraduate Education Programs nancy.mitchell@unl.edu