Mark your calendars! The annual Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET) Symposium will take place at 9:15 a.m., January 18, 2013, in the Student Union, Room 401C. The event’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Daryl Smith, Professor of Education and Psychology at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. You can read about Dr. [...]
The University of Missouri-Kansas City will open a new center this fall to help students who arrive without a major decide what to study and reduce their dropout rate. About 350 students come to the Kansas City campus every year without a major, and nearly four out of five of them don’t graduate. UMKC’s overall [...]
In the fall of 2012, the University College, designated to help incoming undeclared or exploratory students, will launch! Located in the Student Success Center, the University College will connect students with key support services and ultimately enable them to have more interactions with faculty and staff from the various colleges throughout UMKC. Faculty and staff [...]
On April 17, 2012, the UMKC Faculty Senate voted to approve the following motion: That the Faculty Senate endorse and adopt the model proposed by the General Education Oversight Committee, which incorporates a 30-hour block of classes and various details as outlined in the documents “General Education Model 2” and addendum. [For more information, see [...]
Why create a University College at UMKC? The persistence rates of undeclared first-time, full-time students averages 55%, as compared to 74% for all UMKC first-time, full-time freshmen, and falls significantly below the 80-85% UMKC goal for first-time, full-time freshmen (Fall 2008, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010). Similarly, the persistence rates of undecided-transfer students average 63% [...]
Remember to use the UFirst Early Alert tool! Over the course of the current semester if you have concerns for students who may be experiencing academic or personal difficulty as evidenced by attendance, participation or performance problems, you can use the UFirst Early Alert tool to notify Academic Advisers, Life Coaches, and Support Services Staff. [...]
Below are suggested syllabus statements related to that new policy. You are strongly urged to use one of these to update your course syllabus for the Spring 2012 semester and to include in your syllabus and in your communications with students in the future. For more information see theExecutive Order #38 concerning Academic Inquiry, Course [...]
