Key milestones and notable action items for the project include:
Fall 2020 - Preliminary Project Planning
Quality Initiative (QI) proposal drafted and submitted to HLC.
Spring 2021 - Project Approval
Proposal approved by HLC.
Steering Group convened and initial planning commences.
Introductory meeting with academic affairs leadership to introduce QI and to highlight currently available student success data in Tableau, APS, as well as CITL's existing course transformation support resources.
Summer 2021 - Preliminary Data Analysis
Criteria established and target courses identified.
Data from 2018-2019 and 2020-2021 provided to colleges.
Colleges asked to initiate conversations within their academic programs on needed interventions and support for potential course redesign.
Fall 2021 - Project Startup
Introductory meeting with those who have taught in the past or are scheduled to teach sections of target courses during fall 2021 to introduce QI.
Survey of those who taught target courses to better understand why students might struggle in such courses and to seek recommendations from those faculty, analyze results, and share with Steering Group.