Lethbridge College Academic Transformation Strategy

Academic Transformation Strategy
We will collaboratively create innovative and creative learning experiences that meet the diverse and integrated needs of learners, the economy and society.

• Strategic Enrollment Management: The right students in the right learning experiences for the right purpose as the integrated needs of learners, the economy, and society shift and change.
• Applied Research: Industry-driven research to address real-world issues
• Teaching and Learning: Innovative teaching processes and practices for innovative learning experiences.
• Product Development: Responsiveness, flexibility and speed of products and services to market.
• Service Excellence for Students: Student-focused service to meet needs.

Collaborative Partnerships Strategy
We will be model collaborators focused on achieving unprecedented levels of collaboration in education.

• Collaborative Relationship Management: Understanding, anticipating and acting on emerging synergies for collective success
• Service Excellence for Those We Serve Internally and Externally: Client-focused service to meet needs.

Resource Innovation Strategy
We will create entrepreneurial business models and expand revenue sources.

Entrepreneurial Business Model: Transforming new ways of business into reality.

People Development Strategy
We will develop our people to realize their highest potential.

Very interesting article in Ken Steele's Eduvation blog yesterday.   He discusses six converging demographic, economic, technological and political trends affecting post-secondary institutions.   This includes the need for flexible learning (as student choose not to be physically on campus) and the move to grant credit for students completing MOOC's.

Here's an excerpt . . .

Lecture capture, hybrid delivery, online courses, smart textbooks, virtual libraries, game-based learning, and more: students and faculty may resist some of these new technologies for a while, but escalating public demands for efficiency and access make the overall trend inescapable. Over the next decade or two, these emerging technologies will transform undergraduate education for many students, and the campus will become steadily more virtualized.

Worth a read:  http://eduvation.ca/2013/09/peak-campus/

Tentative Agenda for EET Meeting on Friday, September 20

Hi Everyone

Here's a tentative agenda for our meeting on Friday from 9 to 10:30 in CE1305.   We'll supply beverages, so bring your "go" cups and a snack to share (if you'd like to :)

1.   Introductions / Purpose of Meeting

2.  Things to Celebrate

3.  Information Sharing

• Staffing Updates
• CTLI Centre meeting on Sept 27 - Purpose
• LC Strategic Planning 
• Academic Transformation Strategy
• Professional Growth Plans
• Can we make these available for EET staff?
• Thank you for the work you put into these! 
• Follow through . . .
• EET Newsletter

4.  EET Goals
Your EET leaders have developed a spreadsheet that includes EET goals, along with more specific department goals.  We'll be discussing this information first in small groups, and then as a department.   Have we captured everything?   Anything missing?   Anything to add?

5.  EET Work Spaces

• Configuration
• Reflection of "EET"? 
• Kitchen

6.  EET Staff Photo