Curriculum Planning and Special Programs

Values

Innovation

:: We value innovation in identifying undergraduate teaching and learning needs and in creating ways to meet them.

Collaboration

:: Collaboration is the way to generate the best ideas and create the best programs and processes.

Flexibility

:: We believe that it is important to accept others? views and to allow those views to shape our initial ideas and processes.

Facilitation

:: We value helping others achieve their own ends.

Administrative Efficiency

:: We want to help people and programs move smoothly through the administrative system. To assist in that process, we keep our knowledge of university procedures current and maintain positive relationships with UW faculty and staff.

Data

:: We value the use of data to help us manage the undergraduate curriculum.

Goals

• Work with Educational Outreach, the College of Arts and Sciences, and other University units to better define and implement Early Fall Start Programs.
• Identify an effective way to monitor the curriculum and the demand for courses.
• Complete the process to identify tools and guidelines for more timely graduation for the report to the legislature from the Provost's Task Force on the Academic Progress of Undergraduates.
• Work with Advising, the Center for Career Services, and other relevant UW units to develop strategies that give sophomores the resources they need to make decisions about career interests and choice of major.
• Work with the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity to assess the Bridge program in order to improve it and to consider opening access to the program to other students.

Questions about Curriculum Planning and Special Programs? Contact Ken Etzkorn at etzkorn@u.washington.edu or (206) 543-4672.