Learn how understanding your institution or program’s curricular efficiency can inform decisions that improve overall academic success. During this webinar, you will learn how to:
Challenge some assumptions of student success
Analyze your curricular complexity from structural and instructional perspectives
Align curricula with student support services
Make decisions and discuss curriculum changes with faculty
You will hear three practical case studies that will help illustrate common curricular efficiency problems. Through careful consideration of this important academic data, you can more easily address impediments to student success that you may unknowingly be creating for students.
Who should attend?
If you are involved in curricular committees and student success, this webcast will appeal to you. This webcast will most benefit provosts, deans, and department chairs as you will be able to use simple tools to analyze the efficiency of your curricula, and understand some of the simple curricular patterns that have been applied to improve curricular efficiency.
Agenda
Challenging assumptions: Understanding your local student success environment
Finding the data you need
Analyzing your curricular complexity
The university system and student progress
Understanding student flows
Degree maps
The role of curricula
Aligning curricula with student support services (key considerations and takeaways)
Case study #1 – the math sequence in STEM degrees.
Case study #2 – you say you have a four-year curriculum – I beg to differ!
Case study #3 – two-year to four-year transfer articulation.
Discussing curriculum changes with faculty
Engaging faculty with data
Providing a basis for comparing programs
Summary and wrap-up
Diagnosing inefficiencies
Predicting outcomes – linking curricular efficiency to student success
Simulating the impact of structural or instructional improvements
