1. Academic Affairs Retreat Monday, August 1, 2011

2. Thank you Rummy Pandit and the entire Seaview staff!

3. Division Planning Opportunities and challenges Think “institutionally” – beyond individual programs, schools, departments, divisions Enthusiastic and thorough response

4. Division Planning 15 Divisional Goals to President Shaped in large part from last year’s Academic Affairs Retreat Supported by 230 goals and tasks from schools, offices, departments

5. Division Planning Fall Faculty Conference Three goals directly from last year’s retreat Your opinions count; your ideas will be heard

6. Today’s Retreat Division of Academic Affairs Division of Student Affairs Prepare students to assume their roles as productive members of society

7. Essential Learning Outcomes “From a broad, conceptual viewpoint, what do we want our students to learn?”

8. Essential Learning Outcomes All-inclusive, non-disciplinary, holistic perspective Prepare students to meet 21 st Century challenges Explain Stockton’s specialness to everyone we serve

9. Fall Faculty Conference Goal “We will focus on ensuring that all graduates acquire a set of essential learning outcomes critical for 21 st Century success. These outcomes will combine a robust and flexible liberal arts education with adaptive, marketable skills.”

10. Today’s Goal Begin formulating a set of Essential Learning Outcomes First step along a path that will continue beyond today’s retreat

11. Essential Learning Outcomes 1. Essential Learning Outcomes involve imperative skills that enable and empower our students.

12. Essential Learning Outcomes ELOs serve as the link between internal thoughts and external actions Provide resonance to “The Stockton Idea” Make the implicit, explicit Make the invisible, visible Make the intangible, tangible

13. Essential Learning Outcomes 2. This manifestation will not only aid the campus community; it will serve as a primer to external stakeholders as well.

14. Essential Learning Outcomes “Life skills” is shorthand for the very intellectual talents we cherish as academic professionals ELOs will serve as the “touch point”

15. Essential Learning Outcomes 3. Essential Learning Outcomes provide us with a starting point for transparency and intentionality.

16. Essential Learning Outcomes Integrity, not just compliance Are we doing what we say we are doing? Are we doing it with quality?

17. Essential Learning Outcomes 4. Essential Learning Outcomes will help us strengthen the connection between strategic planning and resource allocation.

18. Essential Learning Outcomes Will not reduce faculty autonomy Will not impinge upon academic freedom Will not add more work

19. Essential Learning Outcomes Will not impose academic regulations Will not dictate teaching methods Will not police performance at the course, program, or school level

20. Essential Learning Outcomes ELOs will not change Stockton’s education They will help articulate and clarify the value of Stockton’s education

21. Getting Started 2011 Dean’s Retreat (June): 47 ELOs prioritized down to 19 Our goal today: “Top 10” list This does not eliminate the use of any ELO deemed important by any faculty member

22. Getting Started From AACU’s LEAP initiative: What skills, capacities, and knowledge will prepare our students – whatever their educational goals – for the complex, diverse, and interdependent world of the 21 st Century? What steps can we take to make sure these outcomes are widely known and owned by the entire campus community?