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The proposed CUE projects address multiple University
goals:
- The Kingsborough Center for Teaching and Learning
(KCTL), The Kingsborough Center for Advanced Technology Training
(KCATT), Breeze Through, Learning Communities, WAC, Teacher Cohort
Pilot, and Information Literacy Pilot promote and strengthen general
education principles and characteristics of excellence by emphasizing
integrative learning and the teaching strategies that promote
it.
- Power Up Mentoring Program (PUMP), Learning
Communities, Breeze Through, Health Careers Summer Initiative,
and Information Literacy Support and Enhancement help students
realize they can succeed at CUNY if they dedicate themselves to
their studies.
- Through Learning Communities, Breeze Through,
Health Careers Summer Initiative, and Teacher Cohort Pilot, we
strive to have all incoming students in the appropriate developmental
sequence upon admission and enrolled continuously until they successfully
complete it.
- Learning Communities will expand with the
strategic planning goal of 80% of incoming freshmen enrolled in
them by 2010. A learning community model for transfer students
will be developed. Based on the success of the first evening learning
community, a second one will be offered.
- Effective teaching techniques are identified
and disseminated through WAC, Learning Communities, KCTL, KCATT,
Teacher Cohort Pilot, the Information Literacy Pilot, and Breeze
Through.
- Early completion of math course work is encouraged
through Opening Doors Learning Communities which for the first
time this year will pair mathematics with English this Fall, Breeze
Through, Health Careers Summer Initiative, and PUMP.
- Early, accurate identification of and effective
interventions for students who experience academic difficulty
are emphasized in Learning Communities, Breeze Through, Freshman
Year, Bilingual and CD, Academic Advisement Center, Health Careers
Advisement Center, and Teacher Cohort Pilot.
- Academic Advisement linked with career and
personal counseling is enhanced through Opening Doors and ESL
Intensive Learning Communities, PUMP, Freshman Year, Academic
Advisement Center, and Health Career Advisement Center.
- Through KCTL, KCATT, WAC and Learning Communities,
increased numbers of faculty will now be engaged in a discussion
of effective teaching practices especially in mathematics, writing,
and gateway courses.
- KCTL, KCATT, Learning Communities, Information
Literacy Pilot, Teacher Cohort Pilot, and Breeze Through provide
professional development activities for adjunct faculty and enhance
student learning through training in the use of technology.
- Through PUMP, peer counseling by our best
students will be expanded.
- Freshmen Year, Learning Communities, Breeze
Through, Academic Advisement Center, and the Health Careers Advisement
Center will use Degree Works to develop students' academic plans
early, coordinate advisement services, encourage faculty to spend
more time advising students, and provide opportunities for students
to utilize weekends and evenings, on-line access to courses, and
other options to increase their success.
- PUMP, Honors Program, Phi Theta Kappa, Student
World Assembly, and other co-curricular enrichment activities
are raising students' awareness of the globalization of commerce,
politics and cultures. Through these activities outside of the
classroom and coursework, students practice citizenship and learn
to appreciate it lifelong . These extracurricular activities strengthen
their ties to the campus community and enhance their retention
in college.
The Middle States review of Kingsborough, just
concluded, declared that the College is meeting all fourteen MSCHE
Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education. Building upon
this affirmation of our efforts on behalf of our students' success,
the College is using CUE as a vehicle to further strengthen curriculum,
improve teaching effectiveness, deepen student learning, and broaden
students' experience through a rich menu of on- and off-campus co-curricular
activities. This year's CUE proposal is designed to promote the
integration of existing communities of practice into one comprehensive
learning-centered and student-centered college determinedly focused
on student success.
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