FOCUS CAROLINA STRATEGIC PLAN - University of South Carolina

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Focus on Community Engagement 1. Focus on encouraging students and faculty to participate in community engagement through service learning, service scholarship, outreach and service activities n Develop service learning opportunities and classes in which students are learning to serve while serving to learn • Participate in service learning to make learning relevant and real to students —Monitor the number of students participating in service learning compared to the baseline number of fall 2011 —Evaluate the relevance of service learning to students by assessing students’ reflection on relevance and realness of the course content • Develop connections with people in the community, both local and world-wide —Obtain data through Community Service Programs’ database and Community Partner Needs Assessment and Faculty/Community Partner Service-Learning Agreements —Evaluate students’ participation through community partner engagement and assessment • Increase students’ ability to connect with and understand other people and participate in meaningful community service —Measure by evaluating students’ reflection pieces on how the experience enabled them to better connect and understand other people —Measure by using the community partners’ assessment of students’ participation • Establish the foundation for a life-long commitment and involvement of students in the community, working with people to help with their needs —Measure by evaluating students’ reflection piece on how the service-learning experience might impact his/her future commitment to community engagement n Provide logistical support for service learning and service activities • Obtain data regarding need for logistical support through Community Service Programs, Honors College, and Office of Student Engagement to be analyzed by the Coordinating Office for Community Engagement and Service n Provide introductions and knowledge to different sectors in the community • Monitor data from new contacts made by Coordinating Office for Community Engagement and Service, with additional data from Community Service Programs 24
2. Focus on developing educational outreach programs that engage and stimulate learning within the community n Obtain and monitor data from community sources 3. Focus on enriching the community through creative performances, exhibits, lectures, films and other works n Catalogue, assess the interest and monitor the attendance of performances, exhibits and events that are open to the public Measures of Achievement n Establish a comprehensive system of measures to monitor progress on all foci n Evaluate achievement by the University of South Carolina by benchmarking important measures against peer and peer aspirant universities n For our strategic plan, we have identified our peer institutions to be: • University of Georgia • University of Tennessee • University of Kentucky • Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey • University of Connecticut n Our aspirant peer universities include: • The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • University of Virginia • University of Missouri, Columbia • Indiana University • University of Maryland 25
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