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Analyzing Higher Education Reform Strategies: A Comparison of Systems Portfolio and BRIDGE Designs

Explore the application of rigorous analysis to higher education reform through a comparison of two key designs, Systems Portfolio and BRIDGE, focusing on culture, assumptions, and frameworks. Reflect on the alignment of institutional projects with university culture.

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Analyzing Higher Education Reform Strategies: A Comparison of Systems Portfolio and BRIDGE Designs

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  1. Applying Rigorous Analysis to General Education Reform Eric Ruckh, David Sill, and Michael Palmer

  2. BRIDGE and AQIP are central to SIUE • Simultaneous processes • Culture of rigor in scholarship of teaching and learning

  3. AQIP • Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association • Alternative process for maintaining accreditation

  4. AQIP Process Action Projects

  5. Systems Portfolio • Regularly updated—100 pages • Overview and nine categories, including: • Helping Students Learn • Understanding Students' & Stakeholders' Needs • Valuing People • Leading and Communicating • Systems appraisal every four years

  6. General Education Reform Started with the Objectives Project • 2003—AAC&U’s Greater Expectations Institute • 2004—AAC&U’s General Education Institute • 2005—BRIDGE (Baccalaureate Reform through Integrated Design of General Education)

  7. BRIDGE 2005-2007 • Phase I—Eleven design teams completed proposals by March 15, 2006 • Phase II—Three design teams (May 2006) • Distribution model • Core curriculum • Learning communities • March 29, 2007--All faculty meeting • Fall 2007—Faculty Senate action

  8. Comparison—Systems Portfolio and BRIDGE designs • Do they reflect the same culture? • What are the underlying assumptions and frameworks? • What can we learn from a rigorous analysis? • Can theory and research improve practice?

  9. Systems Portfolio

  10. Theoretical Frame Loosely from Michel Foucault Structure of a text: • Aims/Purpose • Order/Relation • Field/‘Unsaid’ Assumptions

  11. Exercise • Examine Page from Systems Portfolio • What are its aims? What relations does it establish? What are its unsaid assumptions? • Examine Page from a design proposal • What are its aims? What relations does it establish? What are its unsaid assumptions? • Comparison--Alignment • What is important or significant?

  12. Report out • What did you find? • Were there any surprises?

  13. Theoretical FrameIn Application • Aims/Purpose • Order/Relation • Field/‘Unsaid’ Assumptions • Comparison of the two texts

  14. Reflective Questions: • What are the underlying assumptions and frameworks of your institutional culture? • How do you know them? • Do your institutional projects align with your university’s culture?

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