Semester-Calendar System - California State University, Los Angeles

Goals and Strategies for Achieving the ICL Vision
• Design a comprehensive approach to the undergraduate curriculum that involves all
aspects of a student’s undergraduate experience:
o Individualized student learning plan
o Fully developed and integrated first year experience program
� A common readings program
o Well thought out major curricula
o Integrated General Education
o Mid-collegiate programming that includes experiential learning, student
writing, methodology, and reflection
o Experiential and interdisciplinary capstone courses and experiences
• Continue on-going assessment and faculty input
o Fully utilize existing data sources such as the NSSE and General Education
capstone rubrics
o Assess and plan for ICL through annual college meetings
o Partner with the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
o Communicate broadly
� Student success web-site
� ICL and General Education website
� Faculty newsletter?
• Partner with Student Affairs and Services to
o Offer joint advising strategies and leadership training
o Emphasize and incorporate co-curricular programming as part of student
learning plans
o Engage students in academically themed residences that include: language,
community engagement, music, international programs, and Communication
houses where they create community and have the opportunity to participate
in interdisciplinary courses and events
• Extend UC’s long-standing emphasis on experiential learning
o Intentionally connect experience-based learning to each of the university’s
degree programs.
o Document all forms of experiential learning at UC (study abroad, internship,
cooperative education, clinical placements, performance, undergraduate
research, innovation collaboratives, service-learning, etc.)
o Refine student reflection to assure maximum benefit from experiential
learning
o Study the impact of experiential learning and disseminate national best
practices
• Utilize learning portfolios as a mechanism for creating and reinforcing student
reflection on educational achievements and to document student learning from the
first year through graduation
o Continue on-going electronic portfolio pilots on different platforms
o Focus portfolio discussion around student-learning
o Consider the potential contribution to the Voluntary System of Accountability
of learning portfolios
• Highlight students’ accomplishments at strategic points throughout the curriculum,
especially in the first year, at mid-point, and through capstone projects
o Consider “expo-events” to showcase student accomplishments