Academic excellence and research


Better Prepared Students

  • partnership with K-14
  • mentorship programs
  • outreach programs involving all stake holder groups

Better Prepared Students Incoming/Outgoing

  • SDSU students as tutors in schools (K-14)
  • community involvement with curriculum development
  • inservice for K-14 advisors
  • make programs like University Seminar/Freshman Success
  • work study programs

Curriculum - How we teach

  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • community involvement
  • student evaluation

Academic Excellence

  • better prepared students/citizens
  • enhances research and scholarship
  • link needs of the community to meet economic/social/business
  • recruit and encourage teaching scholars
  • develop and implement cutting edge curriculum
  • support K-14 reform

Preparedness

  • SDSU must create strong program partnerships with feeder constituencies to ensure adequate preparation of incoming students
  • SDSU must take a strong stand in insisting on demonstrable competencies of all of its graduates
  • SDSU must ensure that its graduates possess career directions, life skills and significant service learning experiences

Flexible criteria rewarding faculty/staff

  • individual contracts with faculty/staff - job performance, e.g. links to community, international, distance education

Appropriate Research and Graduate Programs - Leading to Research

  • Teacher prep/Charter schools K-12
  • supportive of both research and practice
  • room for research, teaching and service
  • eliminate 1 size fits all
  • global perspective

Flexible, Responsive, Curriculum

  • can't shape if you can't prune
  • collaborative curriculum design
  • use technology to manage, create and coordinate

Delivery of Education

  • accessibility
  • effective allocation of financial resources
  • delivery to more schools, business, international, community, community centers
  • effective use of educational technology
  • new professional model
  • education for the whole person, social consciousness, service, ethics, citizens of the world
  • interdisciplinary programs, certificates, internships, community service >
  • technology

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