Strategic Map for Transformative Liberal Arts in the Next Decade
This strategic map outlines a vision for the forthcoming decade aimed at enhancing the transformative power of liberal arts education. It emphasizes the evolution of an innovative curriculum designed to empower students through reflective thinking and experiential learning opportunities. Key initiatives include the launch of a Business in the Liberal Arts major, the establishment of a Diversity Commission, and various internship and study abroad programs. The roadmap seeks to build upon existing strengths, prioritize sustainability, and enhance teaching and research spaces, necessitating focused faculty engagement, adequate facilities, and continuous fundraising efforts.
Strategic Map for Transformative Liberal Arts in the Next Decade
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Strategic Map___ Progress and New Paths
Strategic Map • “A vision for the coming decade to help guide us as we build on our tradition of innovation to deepen and multiply the kinds of critical connections that make the liberal arts so transformative.” • “An institutional agenda … that will evolve as we work and learn from it.”
– I – Advance an innovative and distinctive liberal arts curriculum that will empower students to engage their world by focusing on courses, programs, and teaching that build on the University’s commitment to reflective thinking, scholarship and learning.
Progress • Implemented new curriculum • Increased experiential learning opportunities –NYC Semester, Sustainability Semester, internships • Created Business in the Liberal Arts major • Launched Commission on Diversity • Increased faculty grant training and support
Progress • Built on commitment to sustainability – new semester program, homesteader-in-residence, Nature Up North, STARS, internships • FYP London, new study abroad programs • Digital humanities, coordinator • Classroom renovations • Technology upgrades
New Paths • Diversity Commission recommendations • Experiential learning – continuing and exploring new opportunities: • Semester programs • Internships • Research • Study abroad
New Paths • Improving and adding teaching, research space • Enhancing teaching and learning technology • Creating more named professorships • Growing fellowships • Adding scholarships • New initiatives???
Progress and New Paths • We need to maintain and build on these accomplishments and the academic experience we care about … and that requires faculty, facilities and fundraising.
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