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Global Leadership Initiative. A distinctive learning experience for UM students. History. Enrichment program that aligns with UM 2020 4-year cumulative plan that incorporates multiple educational ‘best practices’: freshman seminars, experiential learning, capstone projects
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Global Leadership Initiative A distinctive learning experience for UM students
History • Enrichment program that aligns with UM 2020 • 4-year cumulative plan that incorporates multiple educational ‘best practices’: freshman seminars, experiential learning, capstone projects • One goal is to increase retention of ‘average’ student program is NOT selective • Current curricular components are treated as experimental courses • ‘Experimental’ phase now in 3rd year, supported by private philanthropy
Statistics • Demographics • 67% female • 52% in-state • 25% honors students • 89% Caucasian
Campus impact • Faculty involvement: 36 freshman seminars taught by 35 faculty across 24 units • Fiscal impact: no general-funds budget are being spent; departments and faculty have received a total of $285,000 to develop and teach freshman seminars, which works out to ~$490/student. Expected cost of capstone seminar is ~$500/student. • Retention: students in GLI are retained at 10-16 percentage points higher rate than comparable ‘average’ UM students.
Challenges • Suboptimal retention in the GLI program of entering students during freshman year = 66%. Once past the freshman year, they tend to stay (e.g., 81% in sophomore year). Can we devise ways to better engage or support students to encourage staying in program? • Slow start to junior class involvement in experiential learning and esp. study abroad. How can we facilitate/encourage/prepare them to make this leap?