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The process uses local campus expertise – more than 130 faculty, students, and staff have dedicated their time to this effort. Our community will work together to create an institutional plan for improving student learning and success in the first year that will then influence students’ entire higher-education experience.
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC), UNI's reaccreditation agency, has granted approval to include this special planning process as part of our reaccreditation efforts. This provides a unique opportunity to make the reaccreditation process a more meaningful faculty and staff-driven intellectual activity, resulting in measureable change and real educational improvement.
This will enable UNI to achieve the larger goal of developing benchmarks for student learning in the first year that will guide institutional decisions and actions throughout the college experience. Additionally, the self-study assures that UNI will consider learning outcomes in the broader context of institutional improvement. This process will contribute to the assessment and alignment of our institutional mission, goals, and intended outcomes. |
The University of Northern Iowa has been selected to participate in a national higher-education project known as "Foundations of Excellence® (FoE) in the First College Year" -- a partnership with the Policy Center on the First Year of College (