3/29/2011

What Signature Experience is about…

What we have been doing…

• Aligning the University• Removing Barriers to Student

Success• Making our Spaces Count

Where we are today…

Enhancing Transfer Student Engagement

Scope

Develop an intentional community driven process by which transfer students become engaged and successful members of the Wesleyan community.

This process begins at the students time of acceptance and continues through the time at which the student identifies sufficient campus resources and engenders a sense of shared belonging to the Wesleyan campus.

Project Steward: Pati Alexander

Enhancing Transfer Student Engagement

• Deliverables Using existing student engagement related data,

identify what attracts and engages transfer students to the Wesleyan campus

Understand the current process for engaging transfer students and identify lessons learned from the current Freshman engagement process

Benchmark process from a select number of similarly positioned universities; coordinate potential targets and activities with other streams of work

Enhancing Transfer Student Engagement

Recommend opportunities for improvement … identify both “quick hits” and long term needs for program or process developments

Integrate insights and recommendations with on-going work in the career services and facilities areas

Organizing to Deliver on the Career Promise Scope

Develop an integrated approach to career preparation that includes academic programming, career counseling, with opportunities for meaningful career-related experiences and career placement services that support placement in a preferred profession.

Project Steward: Allen Henderson

Organizing to Deliver on the Career Promise Deliverables

Using 3-4 pathfinder undergraduate majors… understand the current process for career preparation from point of admission to professional placement

Benchmark the process from a select number of similarly positioned universities; coordinate potential targets and activities with other streams of work

Organizing to Deliver on the Career Promise

Recommend opportunities for improvement … identify both “quick hits” and long term needs for program, process, and/or structure of services

Integrate insights and recommendations with on-going work on transfer student engagement and facilities areas

Making Our Spaces Count

Scope

Using input from stakeholders, make our physical and virtual spaces positively contribute to the overall student experience.

Project Steward: Bill Bleibdrey

Making Our Spaces Count

May include

Examining the location, layout, and design of physical spaces;

Addressing/improving facilities maintenance, furnishing, fixtures, and displays

Execution of Classroom.Next designs

Development of virtual spaces

Making Our Spaces Count

Deliverables Using survey and usage data, identify what

elements attract and engages students

Benchmark from a select number of similarly positioned universities; coordinate potential targets and activities with other streams of work

Recommend opportunities for improvement … identify both “quick hits” and long term needs

Integrate insights and recommendations with on-going work and Master Plan

Enhancing Campus Communications

ScopeAddress communication in two areas:

Develop process that coordinates and facilitates the scheduling and communication of “events based “ information to the campus community

Communicating about the “Signature Experience” to all constituencies

Project Steward: Joan Canty

Enhancing Campus Communications

Deliverables

With regard to events-based communications:

Using existing student and alumni data, identify what types of information attracts and engages them along with their preferred methods of communication

Understand the current process for scheduling and communicating events based information

Enhancing Campus Communications

Benchmark process from a select number of similarly positioned universities; coordinate potential targets and activities with other streams of work

Recommend opportunities for improvement

Enhancing Campus Communications

With regard to Signature Experience communications: Develop communication strategy and tools that can

be used with all stakeholder groups (students, employees, alumni, board, community partners, and donors)

Make recommendations about content and context for messaging across multiple medium, including advertising, signage, promotions, collateral, and other structured communication

Develop a sustainable model for developing communication materials long term