ESL Strategic Priorties
The UVSC ESL Program Strategic Priorities Checklist is a method of planning for its future growth. The faculty of the ESL Program has worked together to identify:
- best practices in the field of ESL
- students' needs and how to meet them, and
- program needs and how to meet them.
These priorities are listed in the checklist and how the priorities themselves will be met.
| GA ESL Program Strategic Priorities Checklist | ||
| Priority | Action Plan and Timeline | Completion Date |
| Short Term Priorities Fall 2003-04 | ||
| Attract and Retain Excellent Students | - Guarantee students advertised benefits, i.e., small classes - Investigate options to mitigate current class-size, i.e., paid ESL tutors - Create ESL Program Web page to post program information, deadlines, the admissions process, and contact information - Create bi-lingual Web page to inform large Spanish-speaking resident population - Use Web page to highlight the benefits of ESL at UVSC - Respond to requests for information about our program, deadlines, and the admissions process in a timely manner - Advertise scholarship and grant information available for resident and international students in a timely manner - Improve student orientation process - Develop and implement alternative placement strategies such as oral interviews and writing samples - Continue accessing academic support services and encouraging students' academic progress |
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| Attract, Retain and Promote Excellent Faculty and Staff | - Continue efforts to achieve salary parity - Increase salaries of current faculty and staff to competitive levels - Offer competitive salaries for new faculty and staff - Support the hiring of work-study students to help Mary - All program members will communicate directly with staff to solve problems |
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| Expect our programs to be nationally competitive and of high quality | - Obtain video cameras and equipment -Obtain software and software licenses - Obtain technological support (machines, media server, digital camera, scanner) necessary for ESL Web page - Continue to revise and update outcomes assessment (Abdou and Jim) - Collaborate with library to increase ESL Program-specific holdings - Continue to support opportunities for professional development -Continue to support an ongoing evaluation process - Encourage involvement in local, regional, and national professional organizations such as Intermountain TESOL and TESOL |
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| Expect Excellence in Scholarship | - Encourage involvement in local, regional, and national professional organizations such as Intermountain TESOL and TESOL - Secure funding for merit on the base - Fund conference/workshop participation and attendance - Increase ESL Program's professional library holdings - Institute professional development seminars and peer observation to enhance faculty collaboration and growth |
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| Expect Excellence in Teaching and Learning | - Encourage involvement in local, regional, and national professional organizations such as Intermountain TESOL and TESOL - Design updated curriculum for ESL Program - Continue building English Conversation Club (ECC) to better integrate ESL students into wider college community and increase student-faculty educational interaction - Access academic resources such as UV Leaders, Black Student Union, Inter-Club Council, and Center for International Understanding to strengthen ECC - Encourage teaching that acknowledges and responds to diverse ways of learning - Develop self-access lab (computer or otherwise) for ESL students - Create ESL Web page to respond to wide range of learning styles - Reduce ESL class-size and assess financial impact and student success - Implement alternative schedules, i.e., MWF and TTH classes - Balance financial realities while working toward teaching load and class-size guidelines - Support professional development for faculty to improve teaching and scholarship - Choose appropriate textbooks for course objectives - Share relevant articles about current best practices - Provide assistance with substitutes, travel arrangements, and financial tracking - Provide needed technology to make workshops and training successful - Establish teaching, research, scholarship, and/or other creative activities as integral parts of the decision to award merit raises, tenure, promotion, and faculty professional development leaves, and promote retention - Maintain commitment to personal attention to our students, while demanding academic rigor and high achievement - Monitor quality and consistency between levels - Maintain standards among contract faculty and adjunct faculty - Track grade inflation - Track attrition - Track retention - Evaluate grading percentages, level advancement criteria, and program exit criteria - Work with Jerald to enhance capabilities of LA 005 for ESL students - Secure consultation space for adjunct faculty - Raise adjunct faculty pay to local, regional, or national standards; - Develop strategies for mentoring adjunct faculty - Develop and maintain pool or quality adjunct faculty - Encourage adjunct faculty participation in faculty meetings - Improve ESL Program "hiring packet" |
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| Expect Excellence in Service | - All ESL Program faculty will actively give service to the department - All ESL Program faculty will actively serve GA by serving on committees - All ESL Program faculty will serve the college and community as asked - Encourage involvement in local, regional, and national professional organizations such as Intermountain TESOL and TESOL |
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| Encourage and Promote Student Success | - Continue developing ESL Graduation and encouraging student participation - Invite members of the community to be guest speakers at ESL Graduation - Continue developing English Conversation Club - Increase student collaboration and communication within the four levels of ESL - Implement certificates of level advancement - Institute student awards on Web page and at ESL Graduation - Utilize tutoring and supplemental instruction resources - All faculty in the ESL Program will attend the commencement graduation ceremony - Continue to facilitate open communication between academic departments and student support services |
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| Enrich the Extracurricular Life of Students | - Continue building English Conversation Club (ECC) to better integrate ESL students into wider college community and increase student-faculty educational interaction - Encourage attendance in on-campus activities such as lectures, guest speakers, athletic events, movies, Outdoor Education, and the International Student Club - Discuss if upcoming campus sessions tie into our curriculum in ESL Program meetings - Utilize extracurricular activities to enhance learning. |
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| Create a Collaborative and Effective Work Environment | - Improve communication between faculty and staff and involve staff in decision-making processes -Institute regular faculty meetings - Include adjunct faculty in regular meetings - Increase e-mail communication - Seek more open dialogue among faculty - Have ESL Program faculty commit to read at least the new Academic Communicator weekly - Respond to department and school e-mail promptly - Respond to student e-mail and voice mail within 24 hours - Maintain good rapport with other departments - Create ESL Web page to increase visibility statewide, nationally, and internationally - Create and circulate ESL Newsletter for local distribution - Seek opportunities for the ESL Program to participate in UVSC Briefs section in the Daily Herald and other newspapers - Develop better relationships with publisher representatives - Provide Dean Henrie with details of faculty accomplishments so that she can forward them to the appropriate sources |
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| Develop a Quality Infrastructure | - Inform the dean on needs for space - Meet with Forrest and Del Shumway to secure drop-in space for ESL students in the language lab - Manage effectively the space within our control - Be aware of correct contact personnel - Use Groupwise to help colleagues to know schedules |
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| Use Technology to Improve Learning and Administrative Processes | - Create ESL Program Web page - Utilize a wide variety of software to accommodate different learning styles - Utilize applications such as Web CT |
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| Midrange priorities (6-12 months) | ||
| Attract and Retain Excellent Students | -Guarantee students advertised benefits, i.e., small classes - Investigate options to mitigate current class-size, i.e., paid ESL tutors - Improve recruiting through new uses of technology - Increase our efforts to recruit students from diverse populations - Develop an on-going publicity process/strategy to attract students - Develop funding and grant possibilities for recruiting trips - Utilize on- and off-campus resources such as Centro Hispano and Center for International Studies to recruit students from diverse populations - Continue to evaluate ESL Compass Test cut-off scores to ensure proper placement |
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| Attract, Retain and Promote Excellent Faculty and Staff | - Develop and implement strategy to maximize use of funding sources to support faculty development - Support Dean Henrie's scholarship committee - Fund faculty who present at conferences - Increase the number of staff dedicated to department support - Support the hiring of more advisors - Foster faculty and staff improvement by supporting training and professional development opportunities as well as grade advancements |
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| Expect our programs to be nationally competitive and of high quality | - Develop and maintain an ESL Open Access Room - Develop and initiate innovative fee-generating special summer programs - Develop ESL evening program - Offer ESL courses in Heber - Continue collaboration with Centro Hispano - Develop and maintain partnerships with other institutions, programs, and organizations - Encourage faculty to set annual, specific research, or scholarship goals with Program Director and DRTP |
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| Expect Excellence in Scholarship | - Increase ESL Program's professional library holdings - Institute professional development institutes available to area school districts and ESL professionals - Develop a policy on research, scholarship, and other creative activities - Develop a sabbatical and non-paid leave policy for faculty development |
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| Expect Excellence in Teaching and Learning | - Design updated curriculum for ESL Program - Design and implement ESL Newsletter to support collaboration among students and foster experiential learning - Develop self-access lab (computer or otherwise) for ESL students - Reduce teaching load to conform to accrediting organizations, discipline-specific professional associations, and the AAUP - Establish teaching, research, scholarship, and/or other creative activities as integral parts of the decision to award merit raises, tenure, promotion, and faculty professional development leaves, and promote retention - Incorporate opportunities to develop independent learning and research skills into updated ESL Program curriculum |
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| Expect Excellence in Service | - Define acceptable community service as discipline-specific expertise offered with compensation - Highlight community service during annual tenure and post-tenure reviews |
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| Encourage and Promote Student Success | - Enhance collaboration between, and participation with, academic departments and student support services, including orientations, assessment processes, etc. - Share our knowledge and experience with academic departments and encourage them to support policies and programs that will enhance students' academic progress - Continue to facilitate open communication between academic departments and student support services |
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| Enrich the Extracurricular Life of Students | - Incorporate on-campus activities such as lectures, guest speakers, athletic events, movies, Outdoor Education, and the International Student Club into the ESL curriculum
- Incorporate extracurricular activities to enhance learning such as field trips to plays or parks into the curriculum |
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| Create a Collaborative and Effective Work Environment | - Improve communication between faculty and staff and involve staff in decision-making processes - Seek staff input when proposing changes in procedures - Institute an exchange ideas about philosophy and techniques - Maintain good rapport with other departments - Create ESL Web page to increase visibility statewide, nationally, and internationally - Create and circulate ESL Newsletter for local distribution - Seek opportunities for the ESL Program to participate in UVSC Briefs section in the Daily Herald and other newspapers - Develop better relationships with publisher representatives |
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| Develop a Quality Infrastructure | -Increase the number and level of grants, contracts, and partnerships with business and industry, foundations, and all levels of government to support research, scholarship, and other creative activities |
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| Use Technology to Improve Learning and Administrative Processese | - Secure high-quality equipment for ESL computer lab - Work with Jerald to secure best hardware |
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| Long Range priorities (12 months onward) | ||
| Attract and Retain Excellent Students | - Develop funding and grant possibilities for recruiting trips - Utilize on- and off-campus resources such as Centro Hispano and Center for International Studies to recruit students from diverse populations |
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| Attract, Retain and Promote Excellent Faculty and Staff | - ESL Program faculty will work together to identify growth that would justify hiring a new ESL contract faculty member. Begin advertising in December of year when new faculty member is justified |
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| Expect our programs to be nationally competitive and of high quality | - Develop and initiate a Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL) certification program - Develop and initiate innovative fee-generating special summer programs - Secure a dedicated ESL computer lab - Obtain an ESL secretary/adviser - Work towards accreditation in professional organizations such as TESOL, NCATE, or the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation |
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| Expect Excellence in Scholarship | - Institute professional development institutes available to area school districts and ESL professionals - Develop a sabbatical and non-paid leave policy for faculty development - Recruit and develop a faculty that is actively engaged in research, scholarship, and/or other creative activities as defined by the Schools, as required for tenure, and as required for accreditation standards |
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| Expect Excellence in Teaching and Learning | - Revise curriculum to reflect innovative approaches and best practices - Incorporate English Conversation Club into future UVSC TESL certification program - Design and implement innovative mini-programs that support frequent student-faculty educational interaction, collaboration among students, and experiential learning - Develop strategy to secure dedicated ESL computer lab Stay informed on new technology which will help enhance learning - Design and implement TESL certification program with student-teachers involved in innovative teaching |
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| Expect Excellence in Service | - Define acceptable community service as discipline-specific expertise offered with compensation - Highlight community service during annual tenure and post-tenure reviews |
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| Encourage and Promote Student Success | - Enhance collaboration between, and participation with, academic departments and student support services, including orientations, assessment processes, etc. - Design and implement TESL certification program with student-teachers involved in innovative teaching |
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| Enrich the Extracurricular Life of Students | ||
| Create a Collaborative and Effective Work Environment | ||
| Develop a Quality Infrastructure | - Increase the number and level of grants, contracts, and partnerships with business and industry, foundations, and all levels of government to support research, scholarship, and other creative activities - Strongly encourage faculty to attend grant-writing workshops - Apply for grants to fund ESL Program priorities - Continue working for ESL computer lab |
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| Use Technology to Improve Learning and Administrative Processes | ||
