Concordia College

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• Concordia College
• Academic Affairs

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Issues

• The New Core
• New Initiatives 08-09
• Trends Issues

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Mission
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Mission
GLL
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Student Learning
Mission
GLL
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Student Learning
Core
Mission
GLL
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Student Learning
Major Core
Mission
GLL
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Student Learning
Major Core Electives
Mission
GLL
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Student Learning
Major Core Electives Student Life
Mission
GLL
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Student Learning
Major Core Electives Student Life
Mission
GLL
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Result
Student Learning
Major Core Electives Student Life
Mission
GLL
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Result
Student Learning
Major Core Electives Student Life
Responsibly Engaged in the World
Mission
GLL
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• Goal 1 Love of Learning
• Engaging
• Challenging
• Changing

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• Goal 2 Foundational skills and transferable
  intellectual capacities.
• From high school student to scholar
• Learning for life

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• Goal 2 Foundational skills and transferable
  intellectual capacities.
• Result Students prepared for upper-level classes
  and prepared for career and life

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• Goal 3 Understanding and integration of
  multiple perspectives.
• Interdisciplinary thinking
• Perspectives of others

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• Goal 4 Examined Cultural, ethical and spiritual
  self-understanding
• Self perspective
• Personal growth
• Faith Learning
• Vocation

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• Goal 5 Responsible participation in local,
  national global communities.
• Responsible engagement
• Study abroad, service learning, internships,
  research
• From Theory to Practice

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Becoming ResponsiblyEngaged in the World

• Person who can think globally and act locally
  while living vocation
• Person who is more confident with their ideas,
  beliefs creativity

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New initiatives 08-09
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• Learning spaces
• Career Preparation
• Campus Globalization
• Advising for Vocation
• Vocation and Christian Leadership

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• Classroom focus on Becoming Responsibly Engaged
  in the World

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Trends Issues
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Issues in AcademicAffairs

• Changing Faculty
• Accountability Assessment
• Higher Education Growth

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Issue The changing faculty

• Fewer from Lutheran undergraduate institutions
• Need to recruit sustain a diverse faculty
• Scholarship demands in graduate school
• Financing - salary support
• Baby boomers

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Issue Accountability Assessment

• Assessment beyond the facts
• Higher order learning
• Lutheran advantage
• Make our case

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Issue Growth

• Trivium grammar, logic rhetoric
• Quadrivium arithmetic, geometry, music
  astronomy
• philosophy or theology Ph.D.

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Issue Growth

• Concordia 78 majors and 12 Pre-professional
  programs
• Growth industry
• Great new ideas - limited new resources
• I want faculty to ask for more money
• How many times can I say no?
• Difficulty in Reallocation

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