Transformational Student Experience
This pillar aligns with VSCS Strategic Priorities 1, 2, 3, 4
Priorities & Strategies
INNOVATIVE APPROACH
- Initiate new delivery models including:
- Cooperative education
- Competency-based education
- Distance education
- Online education
- Increase and improve co-curricular offerings including internships, research, community engagement, clubs and organizations, and recreational opportunities.
- Provide outstanding teaching and learning technical support and a robust, secure, and reliable technical infrastructure.
RIGOROUS ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Adopt “explore career options in this field” as a learning objective in all programs.
- Offer courses that prepare students to pursue a career in their field, prepare for graduate entrance and/or professional tests, self-promotion in the job market, and financial literacy
NEW PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
- Implement faculty task forces to research and develop new programs and review current programs for cost-effectiveness, relevance, and sustainability.
- Align all current and future programs with market demand and employment statistics so as to expand successful programs, phase out costly/irrelevant offerings, and successfully fund new program launches.
BALANCED APPROACH TO FACULTY EXPECTATIONS, DEVELOPMENT & RPT
- Launch an online faculty training center that orients new faculty to our community and provides ongoing assistance with pedagogy, advising, and professional development.
- Provide faculty with a realistic understanding and balance in the “three-legged stool” of teaching, scholarship, and service.