Rules of Engagement

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Rules of Engagement

• Alan Harrison
• Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
• May 29, 2007

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Outline

• Plans, principles and goals
• Engagement
• students
• research and scholarship

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What the plans say

• The core principles of Raising our Sights
• Learning-centred university
• Research university
• Multidisciplinary inquiry
• Return to community

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What the plans say (contd)

• The goals of the 2006 2010 Business Plan
• A high-quality learning environment built on
  integrated teaching, research and creative
  activities
• Return to our communities
• Responsible and responsive institution
• A positive work environment

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What the plans say A distillation

• A high-quality student learning environment
• High-quality research and scholarship
• Return to community

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What the plans say A distillation

• A high-quality student learning environment
• Teaching
• High-quality research and scholarship
• Research
• Return to community
• Service

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Return to community

• The student learning environment should
• promote student success
• Our research and scholarship should
• address issues that exercise our community

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Return to community

• The student learning environment should
• promote student success
• engaged students
• Our research and scholarship should
• address issues that exercise our community
• engaged scholarship

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Engaged students

• The best predictors of a students learning and
  personal development are the time and energy the
  student devotes to educationally purposeful
  activities
• Chickering and Gamson (1987) identified a set of
  engagement indicators (i.e., characteristics of
  the educationally purposeful activities that
  engage students)

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Engaged students

• Evidence demonstrates that when a universitys
  learning environment offers opportunities and
  support that score well on these engagement
  indicators, students
• try harder, and
• are more likely to enjoy success (i.e., graduate)

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Engaged students

• The National Survey on Student Engagement (NSSE,
  pronounced NESSIE) has been designed to provide
  information on how well a universitys learning
  opportunities and learning support score on
  various engagement indicators
• First-year and graduating students are surveyed
• Questions focus on both in-class and out-of-class
  experiences

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Engaged scholarship

• the academy must become a more vigorous partner
  in the search for answers to our most pressing
  social, civic, economic and moral problems, and
  must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I
  call the scholarship of engagement.
• Boyer, E.L. (1996). The Scholarship of
  Engagement.
• Journal of Public Service Outreach 1(1),
  9-20.

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Engaged scholarship

• This type of scholarship engages faculty in
  academically relevant work that simultaneously
  fulfills the campus mission and goals as well as
  community needs.
• National Review Board for the Scholarship of
  Engagement, 2000

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Engaged scholarship

Major Knowledge Gaps
Priority Research Areas
Issues
With thanks to Ed McCauley