1. Quality Education Task Force

2. Key Stakeholders: School deans Department chairs Graduate Student Association Student Association “Rice Education of the Future” student task force Key Data: Two years of the Senior Exit Survey Faculty and Student QETF Questionnaire Future of Rice Education Student Survey

3. Core QETF Questions: What does Rice have to do well in order to fulfill its mission of quality education and unsurpassed teaching? What elements are essential to quality education at Rice? What limits the quality of teaching in your dept.? What is your dept. doing to further student’s education outside classrooms? What is your dept. doing right? What are you proud of? What could your department do better? Is your dept. better than “X” peer university’s dept. and how would you know? What metrics are best to assess teaching and education in your program for undergrads and grads?

4. Preliminary Findings A continued commitment to classroom teaching excellence Ensure faculty’s optimal teaching/research portfolio to achieve both missions Individual mentoring Professional development opportunities through research, internships, & leadership development Flexible and well equipped classrooms for innovative teaching Significantly improved teaching laboratories