Leveraging Excellence Award Program

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Leveraging Excellence Award Program

• NCCIs Leveraging Excellence Award honors
  institutions and organizations that not only
  achieve excellence,
• but also leverage their best practices
• to help others achieve excellence.
• Sponsored by

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Leveraging Excellence Judges

• Award Selection Panel
• Lee T. Todd, Jr., President, University of
  Kentucky, Chair
• Ronald A. Crutcher, President, Wheaton College
• Mohammad H. Qayoumi, President, Cal State - East
  Bay
• Susan Jurow, Senior Vice President, NACUBO
• Ellen Babby, Vice President, ACE
• This panel was assisted by an NCCI preliminary
  review panel
• Patricia Brady, MIT (Emeritus), Chair
• Ron Coley, UC Berkeley
• Julie Furst-Bowe, University of Wisconsin- Stout
• Larry Gould, Fort Hays University
• Brent Ruben, Rutgers University
• Leveraging Excellence Program Director Maury
  Cotter, University of Wisconsin-Madison

NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award 2009
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Leveraging Excellence Award

Mohammad H. Qayoumi President, California
State University East Bay Award Selection
Panel Member NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award
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Leveraging Excellence Winners

• Codifying Business Processes into a Common
  Software Program
• The Retail Alliance
• The Delta Program in Research, Teaching and
  Learning
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Codifying Business Processes into a Common
Software Program
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Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning

• The Future National STEM Faculty
• Excellent Researchers and Excellent Teachers

Teaching-as-Research
Assessment of student performance with and
without active learning material
Grad-thru-Faculty Participation 2003-2008
Learning Community
Spring 05
Spring 04
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bio Sciences 612
Ain Shams Univ., Cairo
Mastery of Concept
Engineering 266
Phys Sciences Math 360
A B C D E
F Concept
Social Science 219
University of Michigan
Lawrence University
Gillette College
Other 162
Carleton College
Unity College
Learning thru Diversity
Tufts University
From 100 Graduate Schools to 4000 Colleges and
Universities
Contact Robert D. Mathieu www.delta.wisc.edu
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Leveraging ExcellenceHonorable Mention

• National Survey of Student Engagement - NSSE
• Indiana University Center for Postsecondary
  Research

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National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

• Assesses the quality of undergraduate education
  by surveying randomly sampled first-year and
  senior students at 4-year colleges and
  universities
• Focus is on effective educational practices
• Institutions receive detailed results with peer
  comparisons, benchmarks, and a student data
  file
• Results are used for improvement, accreditation,
  and accountability
• More than 1,300 institutions in the U.S. and
  Canada have participated from 2000-2008

nsse.iub.edu
Contact Alexander C. McCormick
nsse_at_indiana.edu
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National Consortium for ContinuousImprovement in
Higher Education

• Leveraging Excellence In Higher Education
• Learn more about these awards
• NCCIs 10th Annual Conference
• June 25-27, 2009
• Boston
• And on our web site
• www.ncci-cu.org

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NCCIs Leveraging Excellence Award Sponsorship
Ron T. Coley Associate Vice Chancellor for
Business Administrative Services University of
California, Berkeley Introducing Mike
McEneany Vice President, Marketing Eastern
Region Follett Higher Education Group