1st Edition

Radical Reimagining for Student Success in Higher Education

Edited By Jo Arney, Timothy Dale, Glenn Davis, Jillian Kinzie Copyright 2023
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Co-published with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), which sponsored the project from which the book emerged.This book answers the question “What would your institution look like if students really mattered?” The authors argue that really putting student success at the center of attention will require a radical reimagining of higher education. Much of what is... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Reimagining Institutions

1. Reimagining Institutional Change: Toward an Aspirational Campus Culture

Lunden MacDonald and Glenn Davis

2. Reimagining University Policies: Becoming a Student-First Campus

Linda Vaden-Goad

3. Reimagining Data and Analytic Strategies: Decision-making to Drive Student and Institutional Success

Brian Hinote

Part 2: Reimagining the Student Experience

4. Reimagining Student Learning: Transformative Pedagogies

Mark Canada and Jeffrey Gayton

5. Reimagining Student Support Structures: Identifying Your Problems and Building Teams to Solve Them

Mark Gumble and Vincent Windrow

6. Reimagining Personnel Processes: Supporting Instructors Committed to Student Success

Timothy Dale and Joseph Foy

Part 3: Reimagining Higher Education

7 What to Reimagine: the Future of Higher Education

George L. Mehaffy

8. How to Reimagine: Being Hard on Problems but Easy on People

Jo Arney

9. Why We Must Reimagine: A Student’s Perspective

Mark Moralez

Conclusion. Reimagining the Culture of Higher Education: Institutional Transformation for Radical Student Success

Jillian Kinzie

Editors and Contributors

Index

Biography

Jo Arney was an Associate Professor and the Director of Student Success at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Prior to that she served four years as the Program Director for AASCU’s Re-Imagining the First Year project.

Timothy Dale is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is the director of the first-year seminar program and co-chaired the Re-Imagining the First Year project at UW-La Crosse.

Glenn Davis is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Bowling Green State University. He was formerly a faculty member at St. Cloud State University, where he later served as Interim Dean of University College. He also served as a campus lead for the Re-Imagining the First Year project at SCSU.

Jillian Kinzie is Associate Director of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute. She is also a senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) project.