Decision Support

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Georgia StateSacramento, Aug 16
UUPP Report
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Report Guidelines

• Writing outcomes assessment
• Six Characteristics in web site
• Audience

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UUPP Goals
Portfolio at GSU
plus

• Improve assessment, especially general education
• Enhance decision support

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Learning OutcomesRevision

• Simplicity
• Utility

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Learning Outcomes

• Communication Students use writing and speaking
  effectively for different audiences and purposes
• Analysis of Information Students analyze and
  synthesize data appropriately in a variety of
  settings
• Critical Thinking Students identify appropriate
  questions and formulate hypotheses and arguments
  to answer them

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CommunicationMeasurable Outcomes

• Students develop their ideas in written and oral
  formats
• Students use appropriate writing conventions and
  formats
• Students use writing as a tool for learning
• Students communicate one-on-one and in group
  settings
• Students demonstrate ability to incorporate
  written and oral feedback

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Communication Outcomes

• What
• Status
• Plans

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Key Characteristics
UUPP meta-site issues

• Access and support
• Student learning in the urban environment
• Diversity and pluralism
• Civic engagement
• Urban relevance of programs and scholarship
• Urban universities as intellectual and cultural
  resources for the city

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Access Support
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• Access would need to be defined in terms other
  than selectivity
• The second sentence of the definition (support)
  is captured in other sections

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Student Learning in the Urban Environment

• GSU 1010, orientation to university and Atlanta
• Freshman composition ethnographic writing
  assignments
• Electronic Viewbook theme learning in a real
  world
• But no faculty consensus for a urban learning
  goal

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Diversity and Pluralism

• Established as learning outcomes III,4 and III,
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• Strategic Plan self definition, goals of
  undergraduate enrollment management, goals of
  faculty demographics
• Evidence in statistical profiles

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Civic Engagement

• In general, the Engagement section of portfolio
• Consortium with Emory, Georgia Tech, and Clark

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Urban Relevance of Programs and Scholarship

• Listing of numerous programs and centers programs
  in Engagement section
• Woven into descriptions in departmental profile
  section
• Urban concentrations in AS history, sociology,
  geography, political science, anthropology
• Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research
  Atlanta, Department of Public Administration and
  Urban Studies

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Intellectual and Cultural Resources for the City

• University Experts listing
• Theater and Music offerings
• Library

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Portfolio Audience and usage issues
Redesign look and feel add pictures Audience di
rectory navigation frame
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New Look Feel

• More like proposed University page image,
  brighter
• Consistent template through 2d and 3d level pages

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Add Photos and Visuals

• Photo bank changes with each refresh
• Virtual tour, web cam
• Increased attention to design

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Layout Design
General
Topics
Audience
General Info Engagement Effectiveness Planning
Decision Support
Gen Audience Students Civic / Political Higher
Education Faculty / Staff
Detail
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Navigation Enhancements

• Header Frame will anchor to portfolio web site
  when using external links
• Add site index by type of user

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