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Board of Governors
October 16, 2008
The Region
The Region
Proximity:
• Western North
Carolina is more
naturally linked to
Atlanta, Knoxville,
and GreenvilleSpartanburg than to
Raleigh
• It takes as long to
drive from Raleigh to
Cullowhee as from
Raleigh to
Washington
Southern Piedmont Megalopolis (SPM)
Southern Piedmont Megalopolis (SPM)
Importance of Atlanta & GSP
Business Locations Related to GSP
Asheville-Hendersonville
Aging Population in SPM
Clusters of Innovation
ARC
AdvantageWest
AdvantageWest (cont,)
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• Environment-related
• Advanced manufacturing
advanced materials and composites
chemicals and plastics
• IT software
• Communications including multimedia,
film, TV, internet-related
• Food-related including:
hospitality
horticulture
packaging
• Life sciences and agribusiness
biotechnology
nutraceuticals
native plant commercialization
bio-manufacturing
non-toxic pest control
• Retirement
construction
retirement communities
gerontology and geriatrics
adaptive technologies
• Arts crafts and design
home-based entrepreneurs
graphic arts
architects
set design and arts performance
historical preservation
• Environment-related
renewable energy
minerals
environmental reclamation
• Health care
health delivery systems
medical equipment manufacturing
• Recreation and tourism
eco-tourism
heritage tourism
hospitality
recreation facilities and services
recreation product manufacture
• Security-related
forensic science
homeland security technologies
criminal justice
Industrial machinery
Electronic equipment
Chemical production
Lumber/wood products
Automobiles and related
High-end furniture
Specialty textiles
Environmental
technologies
Biotech Center
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Bio-tech applications
Bio-manufacturing
Environmental quality
Clinical trials
Health-related
biotechnology
A Unified
Response: Linked
Strategies
University Strategies Focused on the
Region’s Future: Core Concept
Underlying all of our strategies (education, scholarship and
service) is the concept of ENGAGEMENT:
Engagement is the process by which the University links its
programs and resources to the needs of the people of the
broader community
Unified Approach to Addressing Regional
Need: The Millennium Initiative
Core Strategies:
• Implement UNC-Tomorrow
– Grow high quality enrollment, especially in key fields
– Implement the WCU QEP: 21st Century Education for ALL students
– Support high quality, regionally-relevant graduate programs
– Implement Boyer Model-based faculty reward system
– Implement the “Stewards of Place Model”
– Develop the Millennium Campus
Grow High Quality Enrollment in Programs
with Regional Importance
WCU is focusing on increasing academic
standards and improving student quality as
part of an integrated strategy to develop
“intellectual capital” for the region
Summer Transition Programming
• Second summer session integrated program
• Southwestern Community College partnership; SCC provided
excellent collegiate skills testing support
• Students take beginning English (English 190) and college reading
(EDRD 150) or a second general education course
• Classes enrolled an average of 18 students
• Each student assigned a faculty mentor to assist student in exploring
his/her academic and life goals
• Co-curriculum and curriculum closely linked:
– Students visit Museum of Cherokee People
– Group hike in mountains
– Service learning project
Summer Transition Programming
• Student’s mentor developed understanding of student’s academic
weaknesses or personal issues that could interfere with academic
performance
• Individual follow-up plan developed and implemented for each
student
• Students lived in a learning community. RAs received special
training and worked closely with the faculty mentor to assist in
helping student develop
• Strong activity-based group building activities throughout
program
• Each week, students required to attend a program focused on
linking them to personal development opportunities
Summer Transition Programming
Program continues into the fall and spring semesters:
• Each student assigned a peer mentor
• Each student assigned an academic advisor who works
proactively with the student for the first year
• Strong academic progress reporting system used to track
student performance and to flag need for intervention
• Students strongly encouraged to enroll in career and major
development seminar in spring term
Summer Transition Programming
Outcomes (2008)
• 152 students started the program
• 4 students were dismissed from the program—three for
behavioral problems
• All but 4 students eligible to enroll in Fall term (97.3 percent)
• Average GPA for summer: 3.40
• 50 percent of students received a 3.5 or higher
For 2007 class, fall/spring retention was same as for
regularly admitted student
UNC-Tomorrow
UNC-Tomorrow Flag Statements
A. Our Global Readiness (4.1)
– WCU will continue to realign its academic programs and services consistent with its
unique and nationally significant philosophy of integrative education.
B. Our Citizens and Their Future Access to Higher Education (4.2)
– To address the projected demand for higher education among North Carolinians, WCU
will utilize an educational extension model to provide programming and services to
non-traditional, underserved, and place-bound students; and increase the main campus
capacity.
C. Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education (4.3)
– Through its partnerships with the region’s schools and its applied research, WCU will
influence public policy and practice with regard to teacher preparation and retention,
administrative quality, and school performance.
D. Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation (4.4)
– WCU will apply the Stewards of Place model to effect regional economic
transformation.
UNC-Tomorrow Flag Statements
E. Our Health (4.5)
– WCU will expand its role as the major provider of allied health and nursing education,
applied research, and service in the Western North Carolina region.
F. Our Environment (4.6)
– WCU will expand its focus on education and research tied to environmental
sustainability with particular emphasis on biodiversity and land use.
G. Our University’s Outreach & Engagement (4.7)
– WCU will use the Boyer Model of Scholarship and the SACS-approved integrative,
intentional learning model to encourage the application of research to regional issues.
Quality Enhancement Plan:
The QEP
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
“Synthesis: A Pathway to Intentional Learning”
Purpose: Provide an educational experience
where students integrate knowledge, skills and
co-curricular activities that result in deeper
learning, meaningful career choices, and
developing an understanding of one’s role in
society
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Reflection
Content, theory &
methods
Practice
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Keys to the QEP:
Coordination of advising, service learning, international
programs, undergraduate research, and career education
Development of the “Education Briefcase. The “Education
Briefcase” is a longitudinal portfolio available for assessment
of student learning and program quality.
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Students are required to be involved in experiential
education such as service learning, internships, cooperative education, international travel, or mentored
research
Students are required to reflect on the meaning of their
education as related to their goals—their world
Focus is on meaning, application, and integration
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Engaged Learning
Recreation therapy students work with Webster Enterprises
to develop exercise programs for adults with disabilities
Engineering technology students and faculty give up a
winter break to develop an injection mold for Watauga
Industries
Eleven students do “alternative fall break” to work with
homeless in Atlanta
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Engaged Learning
Theater and education students develop a performance,
“School House Rock Live!” and perform for hundreds of
the region’s elementary students
Entrepreneurship students work with the Town of Canton
to rebuild economy after recession and flood
Future Physical Therapists perform workplace ergonomics
assessments, helping to reduce musculoskeletal or
repetitive stress injuries
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Engaged Learning
During the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007,
7,300 students at WCU completed 38,500 hours of
community service, and 2,500 of those students
participated as part of their academic courses
Implement QEP with Specific Examples
Engineering
Recreation Therapy
Boyer Model
Boyer model is critical to implementing the QEP and
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Assures that faculty reward system has the flexibility
needed to support other programs
Focuses on “meaningful” scholarship rather than
“publications”
Boyer Model: A Few Examples
Natural Resource Management faculty member spins out
not-for-profit focused on sustainable forestry
Faculty member and students in engineering technology
develop device to allow disabled artist to paint again
Faculty member in education creates web-based material for
K-12 schools
Chemistry faculty member creates material used in “nonpoisonous pesticide”
Boyer Model
“Faculty members should demonstrate that they are current
and scholarly in their disciplines as reflected in the ways they
teach and serve. They are also expected to demonstrate
regular activity in one or more types of scholarship outlined
below”:
The four types of scholarship from Ernest Boyer’s model
include:
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Scholarship of
Scholarship of
Scholarship of
Scholarship of
discovery
integration
application
teaching and learning
Graduate Education
• Increasingly develop strong programs that
reflect the needs of the region
• Increasingly focus on distance education to
address regional and state needs for an
educated workforce
Stewards of Place Model
Framework for
Regional
Stewardship
Innovative Economy
Preparing people and places
to succeed
Social Inclusion
Livable
Community
Ensuring that
everyone
participates and
shares
responsibility
Preserving and
creating places to
live and work
Collaborative
Government
Finding creative ways to
govern
Overall Millennium Initiative and Campus
Town Center
Branding Initiative
Branding Initiative - Athletics
Branding Initiative - Campus
“WCU offers opportunities for
those who aspire to make a
difference in their world.”
Branding Initiative - Campus
Core Components of the Brand:
Climb
Pride of the Mountains
Engage
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