Institutional Change

Student Development and Learning

Student Leader Fellowship Program, Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University's Student Leader Fellowship Program aims to develop competent, ethical, and community-centered leaders. Over a two-year period, students participate in the following six component areas that focus on self-development and community involvement: Fall Retreat, Mentors, Leadership Theory and Practice Course, Skill Builders! Leadership Workshops, Community Service Internship and Special Occasions.

The Student Learning Imperative: Implications for Student Affairs
This position paper from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) discusses how student affairs professionals can create the conditions that enhance student learning and personal development and describes characteristics of a learning-oriented student affairs division.  The document re-examines the philosophical tenets that guide student affairs practices and talks about how student affairs professional can form partnerships with students, faculty, academic administrators, and others to help all students attain high levels of learning and personal development.

Strengthening Responsibility for Undergraduate Learning
The Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning is an initiative supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts that aims to, 1) encourage and enable colleges and universities to take responsibility for helping their undergraduates attain demonstrable learning outcomes; and 2) strengthen the incentives for doing so by making what colleges contribute to undergraduate learning an important factor in the decisions of the marketplace, the policies of the state and federal governments, and the processes of academic peer review. The PEW Forum is located in Washington, D.C. at the offices of The Education Trust.

AAC&U offers these resources only as possible models of interest and has not submitted each of them to any substantial peer or quality review. If you have questions about any particular resource, please contact the institution sponsoring it directly.