Active AQIP Projects

Create a Systematic Employee Development Process

Project kickoff: October 2010

Target completion: January 2012

Team Chair: Rebecca Christianson

The goal of  this project is to develop, implement and continuously evaluate a system that supports and encourages professional development and provides all employees with opportunities to improve their knowledge, skills and abilities.

Increase Gender Diversity of Faculty and Students

Project kickoff: September 2010

Target completion: September 2012

Team Chair: Christa Walck

The goal of this project is to develop processes and practices that will increase the gender diversity of faculty and students in order to “prepare students to create the future” (mission) and to “attract, retain, and support a world-class and diverse faculty, staff, and student population” (goal).This project builds on (1) a completed Action Project to increase faculty diversity, (2) the current NSF ADVANCE grant to improve recruiting and mentoring of female faculty, and (3) a current Action Project to enhance academic advising. The project will improve processes for students and faculty and communicate the value of gender diversity to all university stakeholders.

Improving Undergraduate Student Success.

Project Kickoff: September 2011

Target Completion: September 2012

Team Chair: Tim Schulz

This goal of this project is to assess undergraduate student success using metrics for student retention, grade distribution, graduation rate, time to degree, placement and high impact practices, in order to identify systems, processes and practices which have a critical impact on student success.