{"id":1839,"date":"2025-05-07T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/?page_id=1839"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:49:30","slug":"strategic-plan-implementation-update-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/strategic-plan-implementation-update-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Plan Implementation Update: January, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>It was a delight to see so many of you brave the bitter cold last week to join in the half-day retreat in Kagin!&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>This robust session (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1xJkMEWlOpgXTZjBqnHkCtcZ_if4TKa2ZCSpYjvTDzHc\/edit#slide=id.p\">view summary slide deck<\/a>) included:<br>Reflections from Paul Handstedt, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/linker2.worldcat.org\/?jHome=https%3A%2F%2Febookcentral.proquest.com%2Flib%2Fmacal%2Fdetail.action%3FdocID%3D31011547&amp;linktype=best&amp;jHomeSig=f7f8135f1680a5d46e4be0efb8746cf4094d0a4e0fa75b3d9e877800d434c8ff\">General Education Essentials,\u201d<\/a> about approaches to reforming general education curricula<br>Discussing and reworking three <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1kg-igLMtpsjUf93lwCx6kJPo18nOvykVq8BnhST9q0c\/edit?tab=t.9wpt3pfy59od\">DRAFT general education models<\/a> presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/cic\/\">Curriculum Implementation Committee (CIC)<\/a> based on input to date. The CIC is working to iterate potential model(s) based on the whiteboard ideas and summarized by table representatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne slide- three minute\u201d updates from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Louisa Bradtmiller about activities related to advising<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Laurie Adamson and Louisa Bradtmiller on changes towards modifying the First Year Experience (FYE)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Jen Guyer-Wood and Dennis Cao on progress toward refining criteria for high-impact practices (HIPs) at Macalester and preliminary data about student participation in these activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Catie Gardner Smith on alumni engagement activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Kara Zetzman on an employee engagement survey, which will be administered in February<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A brief reminder of the institutional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/key-performance-indicators-2\/\">Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)<\/a> and the ways we each contribute toward achieving these goals.<br><br><br><strong><em>SAVE date for this semester\u2019s SPI sessions in Kagin (11:10 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m.)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>February 27<\/strong>: Advising and FYE update (<strong>RSVP<\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;tmeid=N3Q2aGdpYjUyNjA3YjNhdmt1YmYxbHQxMmcgb3ZlcnZvb3JkZUBtYWNhbGVzdGVyLmVkdQ&amp;tmsrc=overvoorde%40macalester.edu\">GoogleCal<\/a>)<br><br><strong>March 13<\/strong>: HIPs update (<strong>RSVP<\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;tmeid=MzYzc3U3YnFlNTh1dDk1a3U3Mm41NTQwa2Qgb3ZlcnZvb3JkZUBtYWNhbGVzdGVyLmVkdQ&amp;tmsrc=overvoorde%40macalester.edu\">GoogleCal<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>Thank you for your continued investment in advancing the <em>Imagine, Macalester <\/em>strategic plan.<br><br>Wishing you well!<br><br><em>The Strategic Plan Implementation Committee,<\/em><br>Paul Overvoorde, co-chair<br>Jeff Allen, co-chair<br>Laurie Adamson, co-director of First Year Experience<br>Louisa Bradtmiller, co-director of First Year Experience, Associate Dean for Advising<br>Rebecca DeJarlais Ortiz, Communications and Marketing<br>Deb Ekeren, former member of Employee Well-being working group<br>Catie Gardner Smith, Alumni Engagement<br>Jen Guyer-Wood, co-chair High Impact Practice working group<br>Duchess Harris, co-chair Curriculum Implementation Committee<br>Bethany Miller, co-chair Student Learning Committee<br>Sara Suelflow, President\u2019s Office<br>Dan Trudeau, co-chair Curriculum Implementation Committee<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues, It was a delight to see so many of you brave the bitter cold last week to join in the half-day retreat in Kagin!&nbsp;&nbsp; This robust session (view summary slide deck) included:Reflections from Paul Handstedt, author of \u201cGeneral Education Essentials,\u201d about approaches to reforming general education curriculaDiscussing and reworking three DRAFT general education [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1839","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1839\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}