Sept. 5, 2014 Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support meeting

Division MeetingSeptember 5, 2014

Thoughts for Reflection• What will a future graduate of Carolina

look like?• What am I doing in my work area to

contribute to achieving our university’s mission?

• What am I doing to learn more about and understand our students and their college environment?

• How am I participating in “learning organizations” to learn about and utilize best educational and business practices?

A learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. 

-Garvin (1993)

Thoughts for Reflection

• In what ways am I engaged in my own professional and personal development that adds value to my contributions to my work, my family, and my community?

• In what ways do I model behavior for our students?

Today’s Agenda

o Welcome new employeeso A quick look backo A focus on the universityo A focus on the divisiono Is college doomed?o Thoughts for reflection

Welcome !

to New Employees –

and Students!

Celebrating our Past Year…and preparing for the year to come

A sampling of: Major accomplishments Individuals making significant

contributions Contingency management for the year

and future

Our Commitment to the University’s Mission

On Your Time (OYT) USC Connect and GWLD OneCarolina Student Success Collaborative and

BTCMTM

Secure Carolina

Our Commitment to the University’s Mission

Addressing the Campus Rape Culture

Campus Safety Recruitment, Retention, and

Delivering on the Promise Calendaring Value added student experiences

Our Division’s Focus

• Strategic planning, assessment, and innovation

• Websites• First-year study• Division master facilities plan• OneCarolina

Our Division’s Focus

• BIG DATA: high tech-higher TOUCH• The cost of high risk student

behavior• Student populations and programs

to scale• Student employability• Personal and professional

development• Graduate student services

“A ‘crumbling paradigm’ is a condition in which an institution or industry has outlasted its operating assumptions. The condition is detected when the business or the mission results of an industry or a company within an industry are flat or declining while more and more resources are consumed. When this happens, the institution or industry goes into an irreversible decline until a new operating model takes its place.”

- Lopez (2013)

New Performance Criteria

• Freshman to sophomore

retention rates• Sophomore to senior

persistence rates• Graduation rates• Length of time to

degree• Placement• Gainful employment• Manageable debt

• Institutional default rates

• Value added• Life-long learner• # of Pell Grant

recipients

NEXT: Transferability

Astin’s Input - Environment - Outcomes Model

INPUT

ENVIRONMENT

OUTCOMES• Undergraduate enrollment

• Average SAT

• Persistence

• Graduation

• Employability

WTC – Degree Programs, Courses

BTC Matters - Involvement

• Student Affairs & Academic Support

• Undergraduate Research

• International Programs

o Internships

o Service

o Leadership

• 24,000+ undergraduates

• 5,046 new freshmen

• Average SAT score: 1207

- Astin (1993)

Changes

• Is college doomed?• Are we expected to cure “all of

societies ills?”• Freedom to travel, phone fixes,

cameras and transparency• Creating the magic

8 Simple Rules1. Teach the students you have, not the ones you think you should have.2.The university can make you the instructor of record for

a given course, but it cannot make you any student’s teacher. Only the student can make you her teacher, by accepting you in that role.3.Never say you teach the subject matter, not the

students. The subject matter has nothing to learn

from you.4. The work you do for a course is less important than the work your students do. They learn less from it. 

8 Simple Rules5. It is essential to challenge your students, but it isn’t enough. You must also believe in them, encourage them, and guide their efforts. 6. We all want to believe we have some share in our students’ successes. Their failures we tend to regard as their own. Rethink this.7. Do not defend yourself against students’ responses to your teaching. Seek out their perceptions and work to comprehend them. Boredom, anger, silence, helplessness, apathy, rudeness, and resentment are all messages waiting to be decoded.8. Make learning fun.

- Miller (2014)

Thoughts for Reflection• What will a future graduate of Carolina

look like?• What am I doing in my work area to

contribute to achieving our university’s mission?

• What am I doing to learn more about and understand our students and their college environment?

• How am I participating in “learning organizations” to learn about and utilize best educational and business practices?

A learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. 

- Garvin (1993)

Thoughts for Reflection• In what ways am I engaged in my own

professional and personal development that adds value to my contributions to my work, my family, and my community?

• In what ways do I model behavior for our students?

References

• Astin, A. (1993). Assessment for excellence: The philosophy and practice of assessment and evaluation in higher education. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.

• Garvin, David. “Building a Learning Organization.” Harvard Business Review July 1993: 78-92.

• Lopez, Jorge. “How to Create Competitive Advantage by Evaluating Crumbling Paradigms.” Gartner.com, 29 Mar. 2013. Web.

• Miller, David. University of South Carolina Center for Digital Humanities and English Professor.