Addendum - Benedict College

STUDENT SERVICES 47BENEDICT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF ACADEMICSThe Freshman Institute is analogous to the Division in sports through the Benedict College Associationof Academics. The School is analogous to the conference. That is, the School of Business andEconomics, the School of Education, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and theSchool of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The Departmental programs are analogousto the teams and organized at the capacity of forty students per academic team.Each team competes within its conference to get to the playoffs. Teams compete for the first, secondand third place each week in terms of their overall and component effort scores. There will be twogames for each team each week, namely the Academic Behaviors Effort Game and the Non-Academic Behaviors Effort Game. The Academic Success Coaches will work with each student teameach week to provide feedback on the previous week’s results and to encourage, motivate, and helpthem improve their performance. There will be a regular season championship. Then all teams withina conference will have the opportunity to compete for the conference championship in the playoffsregardless of their regular season standing. The conference championship winners will compete forthe Benedict College Association of Academic Division Championship. There will also be opportunitiesfor individual recognitions during the regular season and during the playoffs, e.g. most valuableplayer, most improved player, etc. Incentives and rewards will be designed by the Freshman Instituteto recognize and encourage student effort. There may by an academic effort banquet analogous tothe athletic banquet at the end of the year.QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PLANThe Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for Benedict College represents a strategic approach toreforming the first-year experience across the curriculum that incorporates innovative, didacticmethods designed to: Increase or maximize first year student effort as a key component of the student learningprocess, Improve the design and delivery of academic resources and support services, Maximize participation by first year students, Enhance the teaching and learning environment through the use of an improved and reliabletechnology infrastructure.Further, the plan explicitly expresses that “The primary notion of our QEP is based on the premisethat all students can maximize their learning if they maximize the required effort to learn andengage in college appropriate behaviors”. Moreover, the plan states that, “If the QEP is successful,freshman students will engage in more of the “college-appropriate behavior or efforts necessary to besuccessful in their first-year college experience resulting in an increase in their college achievements.Students will display greater efforts or “college-appropriate” behavior by positive changes instudying, class attendance and punctuality, class participation, assignment completion, a sense ofself-pride and respect for the community.”