Project Compass: Events 2008

The Community of Practice is the planning group coordinating the Project Compass Planning Year. This group has been organized into three functional subgroups:
1. Research Subgroup is performing internal and external research on the needs and best practices related to supporting students who will become the first in their family to graduate from college and who come to Lyndon from modest-income backgrounds.
2. Interventions Subgroup is designing interventions to better support the success of first-in-family students from recruitment to graduation.
3. Affecting Culture is focusing on ways to affect the campus culture and put the systems in place to become a college of choice for first-in-family students from modest-income backgrounds.

George Kuh, Ph.D.
February 20-21, 2008

George Kuh, Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University-Bloomington, is an expert on student engagement, assessment, institutional improvement, college cultures, and student affairs administration. He directs the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the College Student Experience Questionnaire Research Program, among other projects and programs.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
5:00-5:30 p.m. – Faculty Wine & Cheese Reception*
5:30-7:00 p.m. – Faculty Dinner & Workshop*

Thursday, February 21, 2008
9:00-11:00 a.m. – Project Compass Community of Practice*
(Session is open to faculty and staff)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Faculty & Staff Lunch Workshop*
*All Sessions in Burke Mountain Room
RSVP for each session with Tracy Sherbrook by Friday, February 8

- Deep Practice Brief - What Faculty Member Can Do
- Change Deep Article
- 2007 CHE How to help Students Achieve

Vincent Tinto, Ph.D.
March 10-11, 2008

Vincent Tinto, Distinguished Professor of Education, studies social inequality in higher education and the character and causes of student attrition in colleges and universities. He has some 50 publications, including books, research reports, and journal articles, to his credit and has lectured across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. From 1990 to 1996 he was associate director of the National Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.

Monday, March 10, 2008
7:00-8:30 p.m. – Faculty Dinner & Workshop, Rita Bole Community Room

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:00-9:00 a.m. – Dean’s Advisory Board*
9:00-11:00 a.m. – Project Compass Community of Practice*
(Session is open to faculty and staff)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch workshop with faculty and staff*
1:00-2:30 p.m. – Closure with Deans Council
*Session in Burke Mountain Room
RSVP for each session with Tracy Sherbrook by Friday, February 8

Learning Better Together: The Impact of Learning Communities on Student Success
Taking Student Retention Seriously: Rethinking the First Year of College

Project Compass Community of Practice Meeting
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Vermont Room
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Student World Café
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Alumni Dining Room
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Recognizing that students have a valuable perspective in relation to how LSC can best promote the success for first-in-family students from modest-income backgrounds, the World Café will provide an opportunity for students to share their experiences and perspectives. The World Café is a facilitated conversation that provides a method for tapping into the collective intelligence of a group. We are most interested in hearing about the experiences, successes, and challenges first-in-family students from modest-income backgrounds have experienced at LSC.

Betsy Barefoot, Ed.D.
Betsy Barefoot holds Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Higher Education from the College of William and Mary. Currently, Dr. Barefoot serves as Co-Director and Senior Scholar for the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, North Carolina. She has engaged in ongoing research on first-year programming in American higher education; has been involved in funding, designing, and implementing a campus-wide program to provide training in methods of college teaching; and has authored and co-authored a number of publications.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
5:00-5:30 p.m. – Wine & Cheese reception with faculty*
5:30-7:00 p.m. – Dinner workshop with faculty*
*Session in Bole Community Room

Thursday, March 27, 2008
9:00-11:00 a.m. – Project Compass Community of Practice*
(Session is open to faculty and staff)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch workshop with faculty and staff*
*Session in Alumni Room

Project Compass Community of Practice Meeting
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Burke Mountain Room
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Peggy Maki, Ph.D.
Higher education consultant, Peggy L. Maki, Ph.D., specializes in assisting institutions integrate assessment of student learning into educational practices, processes, and structures. Her work also focuses on assessment within the context of accreditors' expectations for institutional effectiveness. Dr. Maki’s book Assessing for Learning: Building Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution is designed to assist colleges and universities in their efforts to integrate assessment into their institutional culture.

Monday, April 21, 2008
5:00-5:30 p.m. – Wine & Cheese reception with faculty*
5:30-7:00 p.m. – Dinner workshop with faculty*
*Session in Bole Community Room

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
9:00-11:00 a.m. – Project Compass Community of Practice*
(Session is open to faculty and staff)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch workshop with faculty and staff*
Special invitation to General Education Committee
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. – Individual meetings with academic department chairs*
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. – Meeting with Academic Department Chairs as a group*
*Session in Alumni Dining Room

Faculty and Staff Best Practice Luncheon
Friday, April 25, 2008
Burke Mountain Room
12:00-1:00 p.m.
This luncheon will feature LSC faculty and staff members sharing best practices they are using that can support the needs of first-in-family students from modest-income backgrounds

Project Compass Community of Practice Meeting
Friday, May 16, 2008
Bole Community Room
9:00 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.