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Kalamazoo College values a dynamic and engaged campus, with faculty, administration, staff and students working together to explore new ideas in dialogue with the tradition of the liberal arts. Strong connections among members of our community underlie the ability of students to develop increasing independence as they engage in intellectual and aesthetic inquiry, discriminate among moral and ethical values, and develop a human knowledge of the self in the context of history, society, and the natural world.
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1. Connections enriching active and engaged teaching and learning.
Strategies for the next five years:
- Support the development of faculty, staff, and students by providing resources for faculty/ student research, curricular innovation, and other initiatives consistent with the K-Plan.
- Integrate study abroad, career development, and other experiential programs with courses and co-curricular programs, and expand initiatives that connect theory with practice and academia with community.
- Attract and retain excellent faculty and staff by investing in salaries and benefits, faculty and staff development, library and computing resources, and by nurturing faculty scholarly life.
- Align the faculty reward structure with College expectations about teaching and advising, scholarship, and service while meeting the requirements of the mission.
- Encourage more multicultural/intercultural/international components in courses and take advantage of the strengths of service-learning as a pedagogical tool to help students to think more deeply about issues of race, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity.
- Reexamine and coordinate the activities and requirements of the senior year.
- Support visits of nationally renowned scholars to campus.
Descriptors of the College that will be annually reviewed to assess progress in reaching strategic goals.
- Mean SAT and ACT scores for the entering class
- Percentage of full-time faculty
- Percentage of faculty with terminal degrees
- Student graduation rate
- Number of faculty development requests and percentage funded
- Spending on new initiatives supporting the K-Plan
- Number of service-learning courses offered and enrollments in those courses
- Faculty and staff compensation
- Student-faculty ratio
- Percentage of classes with enrollments less than twenty
- Per student spending
- Net tuition revenues per student
- Annual spending on faculty and student research
- Spending on library resources, both text and electronic
- Number of nationally-renowned scholars brought to campus
- National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) benchmarks 1-4: Level of academic challenge; Active and collaborative learning; Student-faculty interactions; Enriching educational experiences
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