Leading Learning for Institutional Change
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the Martin Institute are pleased to host the Leading Learning for Institutional Change presented by Professor George D. Kuh, Indiana University, USA.
Symposium focus
Documenting what students learn, know and can do is of growing interest to universities, quality assurance agencies, policy makers, students and employers. For leaders, the capacity to monitor and enhance learning is playing an increasingly vital role in shaping effective institutional change.
The data available to decision makers is proliferating, requiring advanced approaches to strategic data analysis. This symposium for senior leaders develops practical strategies for leading evidence-based change. It explores ideas being led in the USA by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA).
Professor George Kuh, Director of NILOA, Founding Director of NSSE and Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, will guide you through:
- contemporary perspectives on educational quality and success
- strategies for evaluating information needs and sources
- processes for interpreting evidence of student learning, and
- how to structure evidence-based institutional change.
You will develop your capacity to use data to manage uncertainty, and to shape and support complex decisions. The symposium will help you discover ways for using assessment data internally to inform and strengthen undergraduate education as well as externally to communicate with key agencies and the public.
Who should attend?
This symposium is for senior leaders responsible for designing and managing change.
Presenter
George D. Kuh is Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education at Indiana University Bloomington where he directs the Center for Postsecondary Research. Founding director of the widely-used National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), George has written extensively about student engagement, assessment, institutional improvement, and college and university cultures, and consulted with more than 200 colleges and universities in the USA and abroad. At Indiana University, he has served as chairperson of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (1982-84), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Education (1985-88) and Associate Dean of the Faculties for the Bloomington campus (1997-2000).
George has more than 300 publications and made several hundred presentations on topics related to institutional improvement, college student engagement, assessment strategies, and campus cultures. His two most recent books are Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter (2005) and Piecing Together the Student Success Puzzle: Research, Propositions, and Recommendations (2007). In 2001, he received Indiana University’s prestigious Tracy Sonneborn Award for distinguished career of teaching and research. George received his BA from Luther College, MS from St. Cloud State University and PhD from the University of Iowa.
Location and date
Friday 3 July, 9:30am to 1:00pm
Graduate House, 220 Leicester St, Carlton, Melbourne
Registration
$450 (incl GST) by Thursday 30 April
Limited to 20 senior leaders to enable discussion
Includes coffee, morning tea.
For more information please contact Anna Steer via email asteer@unimelb.edu.au.
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