INSTITUTIONAL PORTFOLIO.

• Sections
• Milestones
• Fostering Student Engagement
• Creating a Supportive Environment
• Planning and Assessing for Learning
• Examples
• Initiatives
• Performance Indicators

The past decade at IUPUI has been marked by a series of initiatives that have mobilized the campus to address the challenges of effectively educating our "New Majority" students. These efforts have targeted enhanced learning and retention among all students, with a strong focus on improving the persistence of first-time, full-time freshmen-a cohort that makes up only about a third of new students entering IUPUI, but that is emphasized by most measures of educational effectiveness. Accordingly, the campus has worked to develop and implement strategies for encouraging deeper student engagement with learning and with the campus, improving the facilities and resources that comprise the physical environment for learning, and improving approaches to academic planning and assessment to ensure that all students develop the higher-order skills expected of college graduates.

Our efforts to enhance undergraduate student learning and success can be seen as falling into three broad "themes" or categories:

• Fostering Student Engagement for Effective Learning
• Creating a Supportive Environment for Effective Learning
• Planning and Assessing for Effective Learning

Our discussion of undergraduate student learning is organized around these themes.

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