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June 16, 2010
Accountability Methodology
An accountability report organizes aggregate statistics for undergraduate involvement in a certain activity type. An Activity models a person’s participation in some sort of trackable activity. The primary purpose of the Activity models is to compile and generate accountability statistics for the provost and the legislature. We currently focus on two metrics for undergraduates: public…
April 22, 2010
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, April 2010
Dear UAA Colleagues, Cathy Beyer in the Office of Educational Assessment and I have been meeting with faculty and students as part of an assessment of the Freshman Interest Group program. Last month, I mentioned a little about what faculty hope for students in their first year at the University of Washington. Now it’s students’…
March 18, 2010
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, February-March 2010
Dear UAA Colleagues, Certain changes are afoot for our campus as part of the strategic steps the University will take in response to the ongoing economic climate. Our tuition will increase. We will increase the number of undergraduate students on campus. They will be ever more diverse and we will continue to be an institution…
January 14, 2010
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, January 2010
Dear UAA Colleagues, We recently learned that the University of Washington is a Pac-10 leader for graduation rates of student athletes. According to the NCAA, the UW’s student athlete graduation rate of 84 percent is second-best in the West for a public university. For football student athletes, the UW ranks second only to Stanford in…
December 18, 2009
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, Dec 2009
Dear UAA Colleagues, As a public university, our call to service has deep roots that extend throughout our community and includes alumni and donors. Recently, one of UAA’s good friends, Alyson McGregor, made a multi-year pledge to the Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break. With it, we plan to engage more students in deeper ways in…
November 20, 2009
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, Nov 2009
Dear UAA Colleagues, President Emmert and Provost Wise have asked the University to envision and academic plan for the next two decades. The initiative, named 2 Years to 2 Decades, is underway and some reformations in Undergraduate Academic Affairs are worth mentioning. Janice DeCosmo and Debbie Wiegand are stewarding a conversation with colleagues in the…
October 16, 2009
Message from the Vice Provost and Dean, Oct 2009
Dear UAA Colleagues, In this message are some things I’ll want to draw your attention to that will impact our work in the coming year. You’ll hear a lot of conversation about activity based budgeting as a model we may be moving toward. The primary purpose of this model is to bring more transparency to…
September 15, 2009
Message from the Vice Provost and Dean, Sept 2009
Dear UAA Colleagues, Welcome back to school! While summers on campus bring a different pace, lest you think it’s all ice cream and summer strolls, our work continues. Here are a few things we’ve been up to: Honors students studied abroad in Berlin, Istanbul, Tokyo, Argentina, Kenya, and other global destinations. Before heading to Brazil…
September 1, 2009
Faculty to get practical and imaginative teaching ideas at Collegium on Large Class Instruction
The Collegium on Large Class Instruction happens just in time for fall quarter, September 22-23, at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Designed for faculty who teach classes ranging from 100 to 700 students, the format and locality enable participants to select the sessions that best suit their needs.
January 5, 2009
Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor
Dear Friends and Colleagues, In 2008, 5,500 students joined another 22,000 to make up the University of Washington undergraduate population. UW students are first-generation students from Omak, fourth-generation students from Seattle, engineering students from Taiwan, athletes from Los Angeles. Our students come from around the state, country, and world and each day they remind me…
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