Education By Design:

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Education By Design Building The Winthrop
Experience Presented to The Winthrop
University Campus Community April 2005
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The Vision for Winthrop

• Winthrop University will be
• and will be recognized as
• one of the best universities
• of its kind.

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National Recognitions Earned

• Among our national recognitions

Best Value
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National Recognitions EarnedWhat They Say About
Winthrop

• The Princeton Review
• Students at Winthrop achieve academic bliss in
  disciplines both quantitative and qualitative.
  This vibrancy extends to the student body, making
  Winthrop a great choice for students looking to
  plug into a constantly humming energy level."

Top Ten Masters Universities In Southeast for
more than a decade

• Classes are small, the school is well run,
  diverse
• students interact, intercollegiate sports are
  popular
• and students get along with the local community.
  Students
• say that faculty and staff love what they are
  doing
• and that really rubs off on students.

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National Recognitions EarnedWhat They Say About
Winthrop
Top 50 Best Values Among Public
Colleges and Universities In the U.S.

Best Value
Named Winthrop as a University Where the
Educational Dollar Goes Further
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New national recognitions earnedin the past few
weeks

• Collegesofdistinction.com has named Winthrop as
  one of
• Americas best bets in higher education
  known
• for engaged students, great teaching, a
  vibrant
• campus community and successful outcomes.
• Education Trust singled out Winthrop as a leader
  in making
• the promise of college success a reality for
  all students,
• not just for some by having minority
  graduation rates
• that match or exceed overall graduation
  rates.
• Winthrop will be one of only eight institutions
  competing for
• national School of the Year honors from the
  National
• Association of College and University Residence
  Halls,
• after having won South Atlantic regional
  School of the Year
• honors.

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New national recognitions earnedin the past few
weeks

• A team from Winthrop University was chosen as a
  regional
• winner of the Students in Free Enterprise
  (SIFE) competition
• and will compete in the National Championship
  in Kansas
• City in May the winner there will advance to
  the SIFE World
• Cup in Toronto, Canada, in October.
• Two Winthrop Visual and Performing Arts students
  were
• chosen as finalists in the Photographers Forum
  competition
• that annually draws 30,000 entries. A Winthrop
  student has
• been asked to submit a portfolio of her work
  for possible
• inclusion in the Forums magazine an honor
  restricted
• to less than 20 students per year.
• Winthrop was one of only 64 institutions
  represented in the
• NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament after
  compiling the
• nations longest winning streak in 2005.

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New national recognitions earnedin the past few
months

• Winthrop was chosen to host NCATE national
  training for
• examiners at the College of Education in
  November 2004.
• With its selection by readers of Campus
  Activities Magazine
• as the 2004 Best Campus Program in the U.S.,
• Dinkins Student Union Program Board sustained
  Winthrops
• standing as the ONLY institution to be on the
  ballot every year
• since this award was inaugurated in 1995. (Award
  won
• previously in 1995 and 2002.)

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• Key to designing and defining
• The Winthrop Experience
• Campus community contributions to
• The Vision of Distinction
• The Report of the Task Force
• on the Nature and Character of the University
• A New Approach to General Education
• The Creation of University College

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Defining The Winthrop ExperienceWhat We
Promise Students and Families

• As a predominantly residential learning
  university, Winthrop focuses on fully engaging
  students in developing the capacity to become
  leaders in their professions and leaders in their
  communities. Over their years of undergraduate
  study, Winthrop students have the opportunity to
  participate in a highly personalized, engaging
  and progressively developmental series of
  experiences that will build within them the
  capacity to read, write and think about
  themselves and the world around them in ever more
  meaningful and purpose-driven ways, both
  personally and professionally.

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Defining The Winthrop ExperienceWhat We
Promise Students and Families

• At Winthrop, a high-achieving, diverse student
  body interacts with talented, national-caliber
  faculty and staff in ways intentionally designed
  to prompt thought, reflection and a life-long
  quest for knowledge and understanding.
  Conversations that begin in classrooms extend
  across the campus community, complemented by an
  extraordinary range of cultural events,
  service-learning activities, guided research and
  other transformational opportunities.
• That is The Winthrop
  Experience.

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Winthrops Promise A new paradigm for planning
The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
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Key Elements of the Winthrop Experience Key
Elements of the Winthrop Promise

• Predominantly residential setting
  LIVING
• Focus on fully engaging students
  LIVING and LEARNING
• Highly personalized, engaging and
• progressively developmental series
• of experiences
  LIVING and LEARNING
• The capacity to read, write and think
• about themselves and the world
• around them
  LIVING and LEARNING
• Developing the capacity to become
• leaders in their professions and leaders
• in their communities
  LEADING

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn.
Lead. _____ Living at Winthrop ______
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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• The Winthrop Living Community
• 2004-2005 Update
• The first phase of a plan to make the
• residential campus learning communities
• more personal, engaging and
• intentionally developmental was implemented.
• Two freshman honors and four ACAD 101 Learning
  for
• Life floors were established in Wofford and
  Richardson, with the following special
  programming
• Thursday Evening Study Session
• Bi-weekly Meal Meetings
• Writing Center Outreach
• Special Study Lounges

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• 2004-2005 Updates continued
• A comprehensive housing study was done by
  consultants to
• identify service and program enhancements that
  will encourage retention of freshmen as
  on-campus residents as sophomores.
• The first year of The Winthrop Experience was
  declared to be residential by definition
  beginning Fall 2005 unless a student is married
  or lives with parents within 50 miles of campus.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Ahead in 2005-2006
• Implement plan to define the Winthrop
  Experience as residential by definition for
  virtually all first-year students beginning in
  Fall 2005, while creating options for continued
  living/learning experiences through subsequent
  years of study.
• Increase number of academic success communities
  from 6 to 16.
• Enhance residential amenities
• Establish new student parking categories
  resident, commuter, and Courtyard parking lots,
  with core student parking reserved for residents
  and commuters to use periphery lots.
• Free laundry to be offered all residents.
• A free movie channel will offer 16 new DVD
  released movies per month on a dedicated closed
  circuit TV channel, along with educational
  programming that will commence Fall 05.
• More flexible new meal plan options.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
In 2005-2006 continued

• Consider implementation of recommendations for a
  new tobacco use policy that will limit exposure
  to second-hand smoke. Proposed language
  Smoking is permitted on campus grounds provided
  that it occurs beyond 50 feet of any building
  entrance or in the external designated smoking
  areas.
• Design and complete initial construction of two
  dedicated fields for general student
  recreational sports at the Farm will be
  completed.
• Complete physical programming plans for the new
  Campus Center.
• Develop a student portal to transform how and
  where students find information on the web site,
  including campus calendars and events
  information, so that upcoming programming/activit
  ies will be available at a glance to the campus
  community.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
Next Horizons

• All campus residential settings will be
  recognized as active, supportive, and exciting
  places to live and learn through community
  development, formal and informal programs and
  activities, and Academic Success Communities.
• Academic Success Communities will be designed
  by full time professional residential learning
  coordinators that provide a logical student
  development progression starting from first year
  transitions to sustaining directions culminating
  in capstone experiences.
• Theme floors options for students of like majors
  or interests will increase residents interaction
  with their faculty, encourage peer interactions
  and community development, and provide residents
  with academic assistance on a house call basis
  -- all leading to academic success.

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Implications of The Winthrop Experience For Other
Areas

• Academic Success Communities as future
• affinity groups
• Other activities that encourage engaged alumni
• through The Winthrop Experience

Alumni-building
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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn.
Lead. _____ Learning at Winthrop ______
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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Enhancing the Winthrop Academic Community
• 2004-2005 Updates
• Trained 51 persons to teach Gen Ed 102. During
  Fall Semester 2004 there were 11 sections taught
  and for Spring 2005 there are 45 sections.
• Incorporated a common book
• into ACAD 101 (Into the Wild,
• by Jon Krakauer.)
• The English Department
• continues to prepare to
• offer the full complement of CRTW
• (Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing)
• courses needed in the 2005-06 academic year.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• 2004-2005 Updates continued
• Increased minimum academic standing grade point
  averages for
• freshmen, sophomores, and juniors were put
  into place December
• 2004. Freshmen are now required to earn at
  least a cumulative 1.75, sophomores 1.85, and
  juniors 2.0. Seniors continue to be required to
  maintain a 2.0.
• Took steps toward implementing the new
  commencement
• participation policy, where only those that
  complete all degree requirements will be allowed
  to participate, December 2005.
• Increased emphasis on and support for research
  with students
• as co-investigators by
• establishing a 10,000 annual account for travel
• in support of student
  research presentations and
• performances. During
  Fall 2004 18 awards were made.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• 2004-2005 Updates continued
• Used Academic Endowment Incentive funds (47,000
  in state funds granted on basis of support to
  Winthrop Foundation) to
• supplement university allocations to
  Research Council grant program
• For 2004-2005 research projects with students as
  co-investigators
• For 2004-2005 curriculum improvement research
• Created the Social and Behavioral Science
  Research Lab offering students opportunities to
  do survey research in a fully automated survey
  research center with CATI (computer aided
  telephone interviewing) capability, such as
  election exit polling local governmental and
  agency surveys.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.
2004-2005 Updates

• Added the ARTStore database containing 600,000
  on-line images
• to Dacus Library, allowing researchers to
  access work embraces
• architecture, painting, sculpture,
  photography, decorative arts,
• and design from cultures and eras.
• Added an Executive in Residence program in the
  College of
• Business Administration and a student
  professional development
• activity as a culminating event for majors.
• Completed basic installation of wetlands
  classroom and construction
• of outdoor classroom.
• Gained approval by the American Chemical Society
  for the
• Chemistry program, and initial accreditation
  for the Athletic
• Training and Sport Management programs, with
  Computer Sciences
• re-accreditation in process and on track for
  finalization in Summer 05.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• 2004-2005 Updates continued
• Enhanced initiatives to take Winthrop to the
  world and bring the world to Winthrop
• A Winthrop team traveled to China in Fall 2004
  to expand exchange opportunities with Shanghai
  International Studies University. Exchange
  agreements have been updated and renewed and new
  ones created in broaden opportunities for all
  majors Winthrop offers.
• The Teaching Fellows summer service trip was to
  the Dominican Republic, keying on preparing
  students to understand native culture of ESL
  students often in todays K-12 classrooms.
• Increased enrollment of international students
  despite national trend of decline.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Ahead in 2005-2006
• Offer the full complement of CRTW (Critical
  Reading, Thinking and Writing) courses needed in
  the 2005-06 academic year. (NOTE The 2004-05
  freshmen class will be the initial student cohort
  to experience the entire new general education
  program.)
• Discuss and develop recommendations on how to
  communicate to students and the public the
  foundational importance of and rigorous
  expectations embedded in Winthrops approach to
  general education requirements.
• Offer the newly approved Master of Social Work
  degree beginning Fall 2006.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Ahead in 2005-2006
• Continue design and planning for a new Winthrop
  library and development of a case statement for
  external support.
• Continue to promote access to the resources of
  PASCAL, the statewide digital library, internally
  while making case for
• continued state investment in the statewide
  library project.
• Introduce the 2005 Common Book, A Hope in the
  Unseen, tied to an array of events, speakers and
  outreach activities that provide opportunities to
  the regions public to be involved with Winthrop.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Next
  Horizons
• Winthrop will be recognized and set apart
  from its public peer institutions for its
  distinctive first-year program and distinctive
  honors program as evidenced by
• Continuous improvement in ACAD 101
• Continuous improvement and growth in the Honors
  Program
• Increased participation in study abroad and other
  programs of the International Center
• Increased opportunities for meaningful civic
  engagement and leadership development

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Next
  Horizons
• Winthrop will be recognized and set apart
  from its public peer institutions for offering
  the highest level of academic challenge available
  with concomitant student success as evidenced by
  the following outcomes
• Increased level of academic challenge and higher
  order cognitive tasks across the curriculum
• Increased year-to-year retention and improved
  
• four- and five-year graduation rates
• Improved performance of students on various
  indicators including exit exams, GRE,
  professional school admissions tests, etc.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn.
Lead. _____ Leading at Winthrop ____
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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• 2004-2005 Update on Leadership Curricular
  Activities
• Developed an offering to undergraduates in
  Spring
• 05 the first dedicated 3-credit leadership
  studies
• course titled Introduction to Peer
  Leadership for
• undergraduates.
• Expanded The Peer Mentoring Program 100 so
• each section of ACAD 101, Principles of the
• Learning Academy, had a peer mentor in
  addition
• to the regular instructor.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• Ahead in 2005-2006 Curricular continued
• Task force will be created to enhance the
  quality and value of the Winthrop Experience by
  integrating and expanding student opportunities
  for civic engagement, leadership studies, and
  service learning as graduating students prepare
  for careers or further study.
• An outline will be created to guide development
  of a
• full-fledged signature leadership program to
  include academic perspectives and experiential
  elements drawn from the disciplines of business,
  education, science, philosophy, and ethics.

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The Winthrop Experience Live. Learn. Lead.

• NEXT HORIZONS
• The Winthrop Experience will be nationally
  recognized as providing a wide array of
  integrated student opportunities for civic
  engagement, leadership studies, and service
  learning through credit-bearing courses and
  experiences that prepare students to become
  leaders in their careers or in advanced study and
  leaders of their respective communities.
• An opportunity for receiving a Winthrop
  University undergraduate degree with a formal
  distinction in leadership studies will be in
  place.

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Implications of The Winthrop Experience For Other
Areas

• Recruitment
• Recruiting faculty and staff who want to join
  a distinctive, national-caliber learning
  community
• Recruiting students who want to join a
  distinctive, national caliber learning community

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Recruiting Faculty and Staff Building the
Winthrop Learning Community
Winthrop is seeking faculty who want student
learning and development to be their primary
professional responsibility and who would like
to be part of a community committed to learning
as our central activity, with student learning
at its heart.
-- Web site statement from Tom Moore, Vice
President For Academic Affairs

• Implemented salary component of Quality
  Enhancement Initiative resulting
• in improved leadership position among SC
  institutions
• Developed and implemented a new summer salary
  policy in Summer 2004.
• Established staff orientation and broadened
  professional development
• opportunities to enhance knowledge base and
  retention

2004-2005 Updates
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Recruiting students Building the Winthrop
academic community

• Winthrop is now telling the story of The
  Winthrop Experience to a larger group of
  prospective students than ever before. Our goals
  include
• Increasing the applicant pool.
• Increasing the academic profile and selectivity
  rating of applicants.
• Allowing increased flexibility in determining the
  size of the freshman class.
• Ensuring that Winthrop remains an inclusive
  community.
• Expanding the presence of international students.
• Maintaining an in-state percentage of no less
  than 75 of the undergraduate student body.
• Increasing rates of retention and timely degree
  attainment.

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The Vision for Winthrop

• Winthrop University will be
• and will be recognized as
• one of the best universities
• of its kind.

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