Resources for all Committees

Be sure to read the following documents: posted 11/05/2005

1. President's Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience 1994

2. Summary: Enhancing Student Learning and Report of the Task Force on Enhancing Student Learning: Engaged Learning - Toward Creating a Renewed Culture of Community, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Washington July 2001

3. 1999 A&S Mission Statement

To be read by all committee members: posted 10/2005

1. Univ of North Carolina: Report of the Chancellor's Task Force on Intellectual Climate, 1997.
This is a fairly comprehensive look at UNC's intellectual life -- and how students are engaged. There's much here to inform us. http://www.unc.edu/chan/intclim/toc.htm Note the specific recommendations.

2. The Univ of Georgia task force: http://www.uga.edu/provost/tskfrcrpt05.pdf or, you can link to it from http://www.uga.edu/provost/Initiati.htm

3. Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities.http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf/

Recent news

• Chronicle article Consensus Grows on Basic Skills That Colleges Should Teach, but Gauges of Those Abilities Are Poor, Report Says 11/07/2005
• Article about the committee in the Daily, 10/25/2005
• Article in the Chronicle: The High Cost of College: An Increasingly Hard Sell 10/21/2005
• Article about student customer satisfaction, take a look: http://www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?p=941
  
• Committee mentioned in UWeek, 09/29/05 http://uwnews.org/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=12382
• Article from Inside HigherEd on student success and retention at public colleges 09/27/05.
  Three associations - the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the Education Trust, and the National Association of System Heads released a report on 09/27/05 on student success in state colleges and universities, an effort developed from another study by the same groups that analyzed the Education Trust's College Results Online.

Carnegie links

• New classifications by Carnegie including a classifications based on "undergraduate instructional program" and "undergraduate student profile".
  
  
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning - see the focus on undergraduate learning section.

Associations of interest to all committees

• http://www.aacu.org/ American Association of Colleges and Universities

Student Development Resources and Readings

• When Hope and Fear Collide: A portrait of today's college student. Arthur Levine, Jeanette Cureton (1998); a tiny-bit dated, but great resource and good overview, - not focused on theory.
• Student Development in College: Theory, Research & Practice. Nancy Evans, Deanna Forney, Florence Guido-DiBrito (1998) (Jossey-Bass) * the must read/skim for anything student development related * lots of more contemporary theories are 'in the works', lots of research happening in the field

Resources - a growing list, to be organized

Brandt, Carol B. 2004. A thirst for justice in the arid Southwest: The role of epistemology and place in higher education. In: Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc., Vol. 36, No. 1, Pages 93-107.

An article by Astin et al. that reports on changes in student outcomes as a
result of higher ed transformation (and notes a decline in student commitment
to social justice). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/v025/25.2astin.html

James Banks, Democracy and Diversity: Principles and Concepts for Educating Citizens in a Global Age. Available from the Center for Multicultural Education.

EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 40, Number 5 See especially article by Oblinger on formal/informal learning environments.

Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Initiative http://www.cmu.edu/splan/PlanProc/UGInitiatives/UgInit.html