umass lowell vision project performance incentive fund grant
DESCRIPTION
The Vision Project Performance Incentive Fund is designed to support innovative work that will advance the Vision Project goals for Massachusetts' national leadership in certain key educational outcome areas in higher education. How is UMass Lowell spending its $108K grant to advance these goals? Presented at a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education on January 31, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Building Scaffolds to Support Student Success
Building Scaffolds to Support Student Success
Board of Higher EducationVision Project
Performance Improvement Grant
Board of Higher EducationVision Project
Performance Improvement Grant
Our Project
• Building Scaffolds to Support Student Success
• Performance Incentive Fund grant:$108,000
• Vision Project Key Outcome Areas:– College Completion– Workforce Alignment– Elimination of Disparities
Creating scaffolds that support student transitions
• Science Laboratory Workshops – Target audience: transfer students– Focus on laboratory skills, pilots in:
• Biotech,
• Environmental Analysis,
• Chemical Analysis,
• Physics
• Writing & Calculus Bridge Summer Camps– Target audience: incoming freshman and transfers– 2 week intensive workshops address writing & math
knowledge and skill gaps
Creating scaffolds that support student transitions
• Innovative Online Supplemental Instruction– Target Audience: freshman in high risk courses – Focus on problem solving, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Math
• Writing,
• Anatomy &Physiology
• Facilitated Study Groups– Upper class mentors facilitate small study groups in
high risk courses
Project Progress• Science Research Workshops
– Faculty selected & content complete– Reaching out to Community Colleges– First Workshops delivered in May
• 6 Sets of Supplemental Instruction Modules– RFP distributed and faculty selected– will be posted online next month
• Writing and Calculus Bridge Summer Camps– Faculty selected– Outreach to accepted students will begin in April –
Implemented in mid-August• Facilitated Study Groups
– Mentor Tutors trained and meeting with student participants
Anticipated Results• 20 faculty engaged in developing innovative
models that support student success
• 100-200 students will participate
in the workshops
• Materials, workshop content will
all be made public & available for replication
• Assessment of all programs will also be made available
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