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Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management |
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Helping Students Learn examines how an organization designs the teaching and other processes that promote student learning, and how effectively these processes perform their functions. |
1A |
Create, over five years, a more balanced mix of first-time students that reflects the national ACT distribution. |
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1E |
Develop a strategy to match available course offerings and student course needs when establishing target numbers for entering students. |
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2A |
Increase involvement of academic departments and other college units in recruitment activities for high ability and honor students. |
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3E |
Enhance programs that provide opportunities for joint faculty/student projects, student internships, travel/study, international and cross-cultural experiences, and use of technology-based programs. |
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3F |
Develop programs that continue to provide support in excellence in teaching and learning. |
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4E |
Develop programs such as Exploration and Discovery, to increase retention of students. |
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Applied Learning and Student Development |
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1A |
Expand opportunity for students to participate in credit-bearing internships, practica, or faculty/student projects. |
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1B |
Increase to 75%, over 5 years, the total number of Western graduates who have participated in credit bearing internships, practica, or faculty/student projects. |
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2A |
Seek, over five years, to raise the number of international students at Western to five percent of the student population. |
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2B |
Double the number of students involved in Study Away programs. |
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3A |
Encourage and support increased applied learning techniques and pedagogy through a verity of means. |
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O |
SD1A |
Expand student activities through effective co-curricular programs and extracurricular activities that encourage involvement on campus and volunteer service to the larger community. |
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SD1E |
Develop credit and co-curricular leadership development programs. |
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Information Technology |
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1B |
Offer support services during extended hours of University operation for academics, library, and events that require technology. |
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Community Service, Community Partnerships, and Workforce Development |
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1B |
Continue to develop an internal environment where community participation and leadership is encouraged and supported. |
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3A |
Establish a process that encourages all students to participate in at least one service activity prior to graduation. |
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WD1B |
Expand applied learning experiences for students so that all graduates will have the opportunity to participate prior to graduation. |
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*(Progress) Key |
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Start-up initial actions undertaken; concept work completed; early organization efforts underway; 25% to goal. |
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Process underway and on track; steady progress being made; funding may be secured; 50% to goal, but no results yet. |
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Deeply deployed; substantial elements of a project may be nearly or fully completed; 75% to goal and beginning to have results. |
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Fully deployed; 100% success on results. |
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On-going planning, program, or funding process. Annual report on results. |
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Implementation to be undertaken in another year. |
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