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Title: Education By Design:


1
Education By Design Building The Winthrop
Experience Presented to The Winthrop
University Campus Community April 2005
2
The Vision for Winthrop
  • Winthrop University will be
  • and will be recognized as
  • one of the best universities
  • of its kind.

3
National Recognitions Earned
  • Among our national recognitions

Best Value
4
National Recognitions EarnedWhat They Say About
Winthrop
  • The Princeton Review
  • Students at Winthrop achieve academic bliss in
    disciplines both quantitative and qualitative.
    This vibrancy extends to the student body, making
    Winthrop a great choice for students looking to
    plug into a constantly humming energy level."

Top Ten Masters Universities In Southeast for
more than a decade
  • Classes are small, the school is well run,
    diverse
  • students interact, intercollegiate sports are
    popular
  • and students get along with the local community.
    Students
  • say that faculty and staff love what they are
    doing
  • and that really rubs off on students.

5
National Recognitions EarnedWhat They Say About
Winthrop
Top 50 Best Values Among Public
Colleges and Universities In the U.S.

Best Value
Named Winthrop as a University Where the
Educational Dollar Goes Further
6
New national recognitions earnedin the past few
weeks
  • Collegesofdistinction.com has named Winthrop as
    one of
  • Americas best bets in higher education
    known
  • for engaged students, great teaching, a
    vibrant
  • campus community and successful outcomes.
  • Education Trust singled out Winthrop as a leader
    in making
  • the promise of college success a reality for
    all students,
  • not just for some by having minority
    graduation rates
  • that match or exceed overall graduation
    rates.
  • Winthrop will be one of only eight institutions
    competing for
  • national School of the Year honors from the
    National
  • Association of College and University Residence
    Halls,
  • after having won South Atlantic regional
    School of the Year
  • honors.

7
New national recognitions earnedin the past few
weeks
  • A team from Winthrop University was chosen as a
    regional
  • winner of the Students in Free Enterprise
    (SIFE) competition
  • and will compete in the National Championship
    in Kansas
  • City in May the winner there will advance to
    the SIFE World
  • Cup in Toronto, Canada, in October.
  • Two Winthrop Visual and Performing Arts students
    were
  • chosen as finalists in the Photographers Forum
    competition
  • that annually draws 30,000 entries. A Winthrop
    student has
  • been asked to submit a portfolio of her work
    for possible
  • inclusion in the Forums magazine an honor
    restricted
  • to less than 20 students per year.
  • Winthrop was one of only 64 institutions
    represented in the
  • NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament after
    compiling the
  • nations longest winning streak in 2005.

8
New national recognitions earnedin the past few
months
  • Winthrop was chosen to host NCATE national
    training for
  • examiners at the College of Education in
    November 2004.
  • With its selection by readers of Campus
    Activities Magazine
  • as the 2004 Best Campus Program in the U.S.,
  • Dinkins Student Union Program Board sustained
    Winthrops
  • standing as the ONLY institution to be on the
    ballot every year
  • since this award was inaugurated in 1995. (Award
    won
  • previously in 1995 and 2002.)

9
  • Key to designing and defining
  • The Winthrop Experience
  • Campus community contributions to
  • The Vision of Distinction
  • The Report of the Task Force
  • on the Nature and Character of the University
  • A New Approach to General Education
  • The Creation of University College

10
Defining The Winthrop ExperienceWhat We
Promise Students and Families
  • As a predominantly residential learning
    university, Winthrop focuses on fully engaging
    students in developing the capacity to become
    leaders in their professions and leaders in their
    communities. Over their years of undergraduate
    study, Winthrop students have the opportunity to
    participate in a highly personalized, engaging
    and progressively developmental series of
    experiences that will build within them the
    capacity to read, write and think about
    themselves and the world around them in ever more
    meaningful and purpose-driven ways, both
    personally and professionally.

11
Defining The Winthrop ExperienceWhat We
Promise Students and Families
  • At Winthrop, a high-achieving, diverse student
    body interacts with talented, national-caliber
    faculty and staff in ways intentionally designed
    to prompt thought, reflection and a life-long
    quest for knowledge and understanding.
    Conversations that begin in classrooms extend
    across the campus community, complemented by an
    extraordinary range of cultural events,
    service-learning activities, guided research and
    other transformational opportunities.
  • That is The Winthrop
    Experience.

12
Winthrops Promise A new paradigm for planning
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
13
Key Elements of the Winthrop Experience Key
Elements of the Winthrop Promise
  • Predominantly residential setting
    LIVING
  • Focus on fully engaging students
    LIVING and LEARNING
  • Highly personalized, engaging and
  • progressively developmental series
  • of experiences
    LIVING and LEARNING
  • The capacity to read, write and think
  • about themselves and the world
  • around them
    LIVING and LEARNING
  • Developing the capacity to become
  • leaders in their professions and leaders
  • in their communities
    LEADING

14
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn.
Lead. _____ Living at Winthrop ______
15
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • The Winthrop Living Community
  • 2004-2005 Update
  • The first phase of a plan to make the
  • residential campus learning communities
  • more personal, engaging and
  • intentionally developmental was implemented.
  • Two freshman honors and four ACAD 101 Learning
    for
  • Life floors were established in Wofford and
    Richardson, with the following special
    programming
  • Thursday Evening Study Session
  • Bi-weekly Meal Meetings
  • Writing Center Outreach
  • Special Study Lounges

16
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • 2004-2005 Updates continued
  • A comprehensive housing study was done by
    consultants to
  • identify service and program enhancements that
    will encourage retention of freshmen as
    on-campus residents as sophomores.
  • The first year of The Winthrop Experience was
    declared to be residential by definition
    beginning Fall 2005 unless a student is married
    or lives with parents within 50 miles of campus.

17
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Ahead in 2005-2006
  • Implement plan to define the Winthrop
    Experience as residential by definition for
    virtually all first-year students beginning in
    Fall 2005, while creating options for continued
    living/learning experiences through subsequent
    years of study.
  • Increase number of academic success communities
    from 6 to 16.
  • Enhance residential amenities
  • Establish new student parking categories
    resident, commuter, and Courtyard parking lots,
    with core student parking reserved for residents
    and commuters to use periphery lots.
  • Free laundry to be offered all residents.
  • A free movie channel will offer 16 new DVD
    released movies per month on a dedicated closed
    circuit TV channel, along with educational
    programming that will commence Fall 05.
  • More flexible new meal plan options.

18
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
In 2005-2006 continued
  • Consider implementation of recommendations for a
    new tobacco use policy that will limit exposure
    to second-hand smoke. Proposed language
    Smoking is permitted on campus grounds provided
    that it occurs beyond 50 feet of any building
    entrance or in the external designated smoking
    areas.
  • Design and complete initial construction of two
    dedicated fields for general student
    recreational sports at the Farm will be
    completed.
  • Complete physical programming plans for the new
    Campus Center.
  • Develop a student portal to transform how and
    where students find information on the web site,
    including campus calendars and events
    information, so that upcoming programming/activit
    ies will be available at a glance to the campus
    community.

19
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
Next Horizons
  • All campus residential settings will be
    recognized as active, supportive, and exciting
    places to live and learn through community
    development, formal and informal programs and
    activities, and Academic Success Communities.
  • Academic Success Communities will be designed
    by full time professional residential learning
    coordinators that provide a logical student
    development progression starting from first year
    transitions to sustaining directions culminating
    in capstone experiences.
  • Theme floors options for students of like majors
    or interests will increase residents interaction
    with their faculty, encourage peer interactions
    and community development, and provide residents
    with academic assistance on a house call basis
    -- all leading to academic success.

20
Implications of The Winthrop Experience For Other
Areas
  • Academic Success Communities as future
  • affinity groups
  • Other activities that encourage engaged alumni
  • through The Winthrop Experience

Alumni-building
21
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn.
Lead. _____ Learning at Winthrop ______
22
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Enhancing the Winthrop Academic Community
  • 2004-2005 Updates
  • Trained 51 persons to teach Gen Ed 102. During
    Fall Semester 2004 there were 11 sections taught
    and for Spring 2005 there are 45 sections.
  • Incorporated a common book
  • into ACAD 101 (Into the Wild,
  • by Jon Krakauer.)
  • The English Department
  • continues to prepare to
  • offer the full complement of CRTW
  • (Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing)
  • courses needed in the 2005-06 academic year.

23
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • 2004-2005 Updates continued
  • Increased minimum academic standing grade point
    averages for
  • freshmen, sophomores, and juniors were put
    into place December
  • 2004. Freshmen are now required to earn at
    least a cumulative 1.75, sophomores 1.85, and
    juniors 2.0. Seniors continue to be required to
    maintain a 2.0.
  • Took steps toward implementing the new
    commencement
  • participation policy, where only those that
    complete all degree requirements will be allowed
    to participate, December 2005.
  • Increased emphasis on and support for research
    with students
  • as co-investigators by
  • establishing a 10,000 annual account for travel
  • in support of student
    research presentations and
  • performances. During
    Fall 2004 18 awards were made.

24
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • 2004-2005 Updates continued
  • Used Academic Endowment Incentive funds (47,000
    in state funds granted on basis of support to
    Winthrop Foundation) to
  • supplement university allocations to
    Research Council grant program
  • For 2004-2005 research projects with students as
    co-investigators
  • For 2004-2005 curriculum improvement research
  • Created the Social and Behavioral Science
    Research Lab offering students opportunities to
    do survey research in a fully automated survey
    research center with CATI (computer aided
    telephone interviewing) capability, such as
    election exit polling local governmental and
    agency surveys.

25
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
2004-2005 Updates
  • Added the ARTStore database containing 600,000
    on-line images
  • to Dacus Library, allowing researchers to
    access work embraces
  • architecture, painting, sculpture,
    photography, decorative arts,
  • and design from cultures and eras.
  • Added an Executive in Residence program in the
    College of
  • Business Administration and a student
    professional development
  • activity as a culminating event for majors.
  • Completed basic installation of wetlands
    classroom and construction
  • of outdoor classroom.
  • Gained approval by the American Chemical Society
    for the
  • Chemistry program, and initial accreditation
    for the Athletic
  • Training and Sport Management programs, with
    Computer Sciences
  • re-accreditation in process and on track for
    finalization in Summer 05.

26
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • 2004-2005 Updates continued
  • Enhanced initiatives to take Winthrop to the
    world and bring the world to Winthrop
  • A Winthrop team traveled to China in Fall 2004
    to expand exchange opportunities with Shanghai
    International Studies University. Exchange
    agreements have been updated and renewed and new
    ones created in broaden opportunities for all
    majors Winthrop offers.
  • The Teaching Fellows summer service trip was to
    the Dominican Republic, keying on preparing
    students to understand native culture of ESL
    students often in todays K-12 classrooms.
  • Increased enrollment of international students
    despite national trend of decline.

27
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Ahead in 2005-2006
  • Offer the full complement of CRTW (Critical
    Reading, Thinking and Writing) courses needed in
    the 2005-06 academic year. (NOTE The 2004-05
    freshmen class will be the initial student cohort
    to experience the entire new general education
    program.)
  • Discuss and develop recommendations on how to
    communicate to students and the public the
    foundational importance of and rigorous
    expectations embedded in Winthrops approach to
    general education requirements.
  • Offer the newly approved Master of Social Work
    degree beginning Fall 2006.

28
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Ahead in 2005-2006
  • Continue design and planning for a new Winthrop
    library and development of a case statement for
    external support.
  • Continue to promote access to the resources of
    PASCAL, the statewide digital library, internally
    while making case for
  • continued state investment in the statewide
    library project.
  • Introduce the 2005 Common Book, A Hope in the
    Unseen, tied to an array of events, speakers and
    outreach activities that provide opportunities to
    the regions public to be involved with Winthrop.

29
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Next
    Horizons
  • Winthrop will be recognized and set apart
    from its public peer institutions for its
    distinctive first-year program and distinctive
    honors program as evidenced by
  • Continuous improvement in ACAD 101
  • Continuous improvement and growth in the Honors
    Program
  • Increased participation in study abroad and other
    programs of the International Center
  • Increased opportunities for meaningful civic
    engagement and leadership development

30
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Next
    Horizons
  • Winthrop will be recognized and set apart
    from its public peer institutions for offering
    the highest level of academic challenge available
    with concomitant student success as evidenced by
    the following outcomes
  • Increased level of academic challenge and higher
    order cognitive tasks across the curriculum
  • Increased year-to-year retention and improved
  • four- and five-year graduation rates
  • Improved performance of students on various
    indicators including exit exams, GRE,
    professional school admissions tests, etc.

31
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn.
Lead. _____ Leading at Winthrop ____
32
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • 2004-2005 Update on Leadership Curricular
    Activities
  • Developed an offering to undergraduates in
    Spring
  • 05 the first dedicated 3-credit leadership
    studies
  • course titled Introduction to Peer
    Leadership for
  • undergraduates.
  • Expanded The Peer Mentoring Program 100 so
  • each section of ACAD 101, Principles of the
  • Learning Academy, had a peer mentor in
    addition
  • to the regular instructor.

33
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • Ahead in 2005-2006 Curricular continued
  • Task force will be created to enhance the
    quality and value of the Winthrop Experience by
    integrating and expanding student opportunities
    for civic engagement, leadership studies, and
    service learning as graduating students prepare
    for careers or further study.
  • An outline will be created to guide development
    of a
  • full-fledged signature leadership program to
    include academic perspectives and experiential
    elements drawn from the disciplines of business,
    education, science, philosophy, and ethics.

34
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
  • NEXT HORIZONS
  • The Winthrop Experience will be nationally
    recognized as providing a wide array of
    integrated student opportunities for civic
    engagement, leadership studies, and service
    learning through credit-bearing courses and
    experiences that prepare students to become
    leaders in their careers or in advanced study and
    leaders of their respective communities.
  • An opportunity for receiving a Winthrop
    University undergraduate degree with a formal
    distinction in leadership studies will be in
    place.

35
Implications of The Winthrop Experience For Other
Areas
  • Recruitment
  • Recruiting faculty and staff who want to join
    a distinctive, national-caliber learning
    community
  • Recruiting students who want to join a
    distinctive, national caliber learning community

36
Recruiting Faculty and Staff Building the
Winthrop Learning Community
Winthrop is seeking faculty who want student
learning and development to be their primary
professional responsibility and who would like
to be part of a community committed to learning
as our central activity, with student learning
at its heart.
-- Web site statement from Tom Moore, Vice
President For Academic Affairs
  • Implemented salary component of Quality
    Enhancement Initiative resulting
  • in improved leadership position among SC
    institutions
  • Developed and implemented a new summer salary
    policy in Summer 2004.
  • Established staff orientation and broadened
    professional development
  • opportunities to enhance knowledge base and
    retention

2004-2005 Updates
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Recruiting students Building the Winthrop
academic community
  • Winthrop is now telling the story of The
    Winthrop Experience to a larger group of
    prospective students than ever before. Our goals
    include
  • Increasing the applicant pool.
  • Increasing the academic profile and selectivity
    rating of applicants.
  • Allowing increased flexibility in determining the
    size of the freshman class.
  • Ensuring that Winthrop remains an inclusive
    community.
  • Expanding the presence of international students.
  • Maintaining an in-state percentage of no less
    than 75 of the undergraduate student body.
  • Increasing rates of retention and timely degree
    attainment.

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The Vision for Winthrop
  • Winthrop University will be
  • and will be recognized as
  • one of the best universities
  • of its kind.

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