Logic Model: University of South Alabama Level UP Quality Enhancement Plan
Overall Outcome/Goal: Students will explain how their experiences at South prepared them for what comes next-- further studies or their careers.
INPUTS
Existing:
- Broad Academic and Student Support
- First Year Experience
- Second Year Experience
- Career Development
- Innovation in Learning Center/Faculty Development
- Culminating experiences
Needed:
- Explicit connections between academic courses and readiness competencies
- Shared characteristics across diverse, program-specific culminating experiences
- Defined pathway for students to develop skills most valued by employers
ACTIVITIES
Ready:
- Embed evidence-based values affirmation activity in the first year
- Introduce portfolio tool to first-year students
Set: Utilize "reflect and project" learning experience near the program mid-point
Go: Connect learning experiences and activities to readiness in the final year
Faculty & Staff Development:
- Recruit and train LevelUP Fellows
- Develop faculty & staff training programs
- Implement faculty & staff training programs
Readiness Toolkit
- Develop tools, strategies, and interventions for faculty/staff use
- Create menu of portfolio assignment prompts linked to readiness competencies
- Develop mini-modules to support student readiness
Program Level
- Create and implement
professional development for program coordinators and department heads on aligning planning and assessment with QEP aims.
OUTPUTS
- Values affirmation activity in student portfolio
- Reflect and project activity in student portfolio
- Reflection on readiness development in student portfolio
- Trained fellows across academic and student support units to promote and support faculty use of readiness toolkit
- Trained faculty and staff who share a common language about readiness competencies & use strategies/tools in their courses
- Learning objects, examples, and templates available in Canvas
- Portfolio prompts linked to readiness competencies
- Assessment rubrics linked to readiness competencies
- Mini-modules to support student readiness
- Trained institutional leaders equipped to develop departmental goals, implementation plans, and assessments that are aligned with QEP aims.
OUTCOMES
Students will explain the importance of their self-identified personal values.
Students will evaluate their level of competence to engage in three readiness behaviors.
Students will articulate how their program and experiences relate to their readiness for their next steps.
Students will evaluate their level of competence to engage in three readiness behaviors.
Students will articulate how their program and experiences relate to their readiness for their next steps.
Faculty and staff will adopt tools and strategies from the LevelUP toolkit in Canvas
to support students in connecting learning and development experiences to readiness
behaviors.
Academic programs and student support services will identify and assess at least one
intended outcome related to the QEP.
Impact: Students graduate from South Alabama confidently and uniquely prepared to take their next step.
To learn more, contact Dr. Julie Estis, Executive Director of Academic Enhancement with any suggestions or questions.