Board of Trustees Agenda 2020

6. Belonging and Growth Mindsets: Research indicates that electronic messaging around belonging and growth mindsets can attract students to the institution and prepare them for success once enrolled. Prof. Tonya Buchanan, Department of Psychology, has been appointed to lead a special project on belonging and growth mindsets. Thus far, she has met with the staff advisors who teach UNIV 101 (required of all students) and presented her findings to the Psychology Department. The project also will engage Enrollment Management and the Dept. of Public Affairs. 7. Re-envisioning the Residential Experience: Student Life has revised its residential programming to more closely align with student needs and expectations and redeployed staff advisors to optimize interaction with students. The following initiatives have been on our agenda but have progressed more slowly. 1. Advising: The primary advising structures under discussion are staff advisors for all students; faculty advisors for all students; and hybrid models by choice of the colleges or of departments within colleges. We are aware of the need to hire additional staff advisors, probably two for Exploratory students and two for the College of Arts and Humanities. All advisors in the College of Business are staff; the college is pleased with the system and the results it delivers. The College of the Sciences embeds staff advisors with faculty advisors, utilizing a hybrid and co-located advising team, most conspicuously in the Biology Department. 2. High Expectations/High Effort/High Support: Minimal progress has been made on this concept into the next major iteration of CWU identity and marketing. Meanwhile, Transformational Teaching and Learning occupies concept space in the ASL Strategic Plan revision. New and Emerging Initiatives 1. Open Educational Resources : Opportunities to decrease the cost of textbooks for students include access to open source electronic materials, library-based lending systems, site-printed course packs, and other options. Rebecca Lubas, Dean of the Libraries, is leading an ad hoc inquiry to determine what will work best for CWU. Gregg Heinselman, Dean of Student Success, has experience with a successful rent-for-a-semester model. There is some faculty concern focused on the quality/currency of free electronic materials. 2. Two-quarter Registration: Discussion is underway to move to a two-quarter registration model. This change would shift students to an opt-out mode in terms of persistence and encourage longer-term planning. To accommodate this registration plan, course scheduling would need to be completed at least annually and preferably biennially.

Submitted:

Approved for Submittal to the Board:

Lynn Franken Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Life

James L. Gaudino President

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