How we'll accomplish our goal
Objectives and Strategies
Enhance support, incentives, and structures that facilitate teaching excellence and student learning.
- Provide departmental and program level resources and ensure accountability for the implementation of sustained course and curriculum innovation.
- Promote an institutional culture that elevates the value of teaching excellence by expanding comprehensive support and professional development for teaching.
- Identify opportunities to expand instructor support for course and curriculum development and teaching approaches that strive to better address the needs of all students.
- Evaluate current educational spaces, such as classrooms and online offerings, and recommend improvements that support student learning.
- Expand cohesive, evidence-based academic support for students and strengthen collaboration across support units.
Expand structured guidance and support for student curricular and co-curricular learning and career planning and networking.
- Promote a comprehensive academic advising network and campuswide philosophy using approaches based on national best practices.
- Evaluate stages of the student experience to identify and address institutional barriers to student progress to degree.
- Provide integrated resources that help facilitate student planning of curricular, co-curricular, and career pathways.
- Promote pipelines for undergraduate to graduate and professional programs that align with student and/or workforce needs.
Elevate the diverse mentoring networks that connect students with faculty, staff, peer leaders, and alumni.
- Provide support and incentives for those who serve as mentors and more formally recognize the value of mentoring.
- More clearly define existing areas of strength and opportunities to increase student access to and participation in diverse mentor relationships with faculty, staff, peers, and alumni.
- Strengthen mentoring networks by making available a central hub of tools and resources to support best practices that can be tailored to various mentoring opportunities.
Improve equitable access to distinctive, high-impact educational opportunities for students.
- Identify and address challenges in student access to and participation in high-impact activities
- Create an infrastructure to promote shared high-impact practices such as research, scholarship, and creative activities; internships; study abroad and other international experiences; civic and community engagement; and mentored student employment.
The University of Iowa is committed to providing every undergraduate, graduate, and professional student with transformative educational experiences through connections with world-class scholars, unique opportunities for experiential learning, and holistic support at every stage.
Iowa prepares future innovators and leaders, researchers and artists, and change-makers and pacesetters who will contribute to the betterment of communities throughout the state and beyond.
Key to transformative student experiences is promoting student learning across experiences; establishing meaningful relationships with peers, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners, and industry leaders; and providing welcoming, inclusive, and supportive spaces to every member of the Hawkeye family.