Learning Collaborative

Learning Collaborative members lead departments in assessing and making modifications as necessary to existing and emerging activities to ensure optimum student learning and development of essential skills.

Updates and Next Steps

May 7, 2021

Essential Skills Mapping
Members finished categorizing all experience types, which allowed us to begin an initial review of essential skills mapped across the division. This information will be added to the FY22 Planning Tool. Over the summer, the LC will do a deeper dive into experiences to understand to what extent essential skills are being learned intentionally.

FY22 Planning Tool
We reviewed the planning tool shared with Leadership Team on May 4. There are three goals for this tool:

  1. Help departments intentionally plan experiences that will occur in FY22
  2. Collect needed information on behalf of SA 2025
  3. Allow us to see the whole programmatic picture of UGA Student Affairs

Several updates were made to this tool since it was first created last year, including the removal of several columns and replacing others with questions that will provide more meaningful data. LC members were asked to work with their directors and other teammates to help complete the tool by July 16.

Plans for Summer
Over the summer, the LC will not be meeting regularly. Instead, 5 workshops were identified as continued learning opportunities for the LC. These workshops will also be open to anyone in the division. Topics include: the improvement cycle, assessment tools, how to write SLOs, curriculum mapping, and how to tell your story using data. In addition to attending these workshops, LC members (and colleagues as needed) will be meeting individually with Annie to work on the planning tool, departmental curriculum mapping, updates to Xitracs, and updates to job descriptions to incorporate work with the LC.

Other Discussion Topics

  • Update on the data lead position - currently in the approval process through USG
  • Final review of SkillSurvey - LC members provided feedback on their departments' use of the tool, pros/cons, and hopes for the future of measuring skills acquisition among our students


April 2, 2021

Leadership Transition
Welcomed Annie Carlson Welch, the new Assistant to the VP - Learning and Engagement. Annie will take over leadership of the collaborative and thanked Matt Waller for his guidance of the group over the past semester. To assist with the leadership transition, members shared what they've enjoyed about being part of the LC and what they hope to get from the experience as well. To assist with communication, all LC documentation was moved to a Google folder.

Essential Skills Mapping
Over the past month, LC members have been aligning Essential Skills to the experiences their departments oversee. This work was combined into one shared spreadsheet for the LC to review. The next step of the alignment process is to categorize each experience by type. This information will then be re-incorporated into a planning document which will be shared with all directors to update this summer. LC members were asked to complete this work by the next meeting.


October 2020

  • SkillSurvey will be launched at the end of the month for the nearly 1,000 student employees and EL participants in the division. This will help students understand the skills they are utilizing and gaining through Student Affairs experiences.
  • Essential Skills have been drafted and are approved by the Student Affairs administrative team. Upcoming meetings include Experiential Learning and the Career Center to ensure alignment across the institution. Once complete, the LC will review for final edits and submit to VP Wilson for approval.

August 11, 2020

The Learning Collaborative met for the first time on August 11, 2020. Learning Collaborative members learned about their responsibilities and work plan for 2020-2021. View the Learning Collaborative responsibilities and work plan here.

View the Learning Collaborative Responsibilities and Work Plan

Members

Annie Carlson Welch
Annie Carlson Welch

Office of the VP (Chair)

Trisha Barefield
Trisha Barefield

University Testing Services

Erin Benson
Erin Benson

Disability Resource Center

Mason Black
Mason Black

Greek Life

Mandy Levi
Mandy Levi

Student Veterans Resource Center

Becki Bury
Becki Bury

University Housing

Whitney Cain
Whitney Cain

Tate Student Center

Ben Cecil
Ben Cecil

International Student Life

Shari Crandall
Shari Crandall

University Housing

Lori Crawford
Lori Crawford

Engagement, Leadership, and Service

Lance Haynie
Lance Haynie

Recreational Sports

Erin Hill
Erin Hill

LGBT Resource Center

Jamel Hodges
Jamel Hodges

Multicultural Services and Programs

Rebecca Scarbro
Rebecca Scarbro

Student Conduct

Kaitlyn Shepard
Kaitlyn Shepard

Student Transitions

Kelly Truesdell
Kelly Truesdell

University Health Center