Criteria for Review 4.7

The institution with significant faculty involvement, engages in ongoing inquiry into the processes of teaching and learning, as well as into the conditions and practices that promote the kinds and levels of learning intended by the institution.  The outcomes of such inquiries are applied to the design of curricula, the design and practice of pedagogy, and to the improvement of evaluation means and methodology.

Links to Evidence and Related Topics

Goals to Achieve the Mission

• Academic Honesty: EM 04-36
• Academic Integrity Survey:
  • Student Results, spring 2004
  • Faculty Results, spring 2004
  • Undergraduate results comparison with national norms, spring 2004
• Academic Rigor:
  • College of Agriculture
• Academic Senate Academic Integrity Committee
• All University Responsibility for Assessment Committee (AURA)
• Alumni Association
• Environmental Health and Safety
• Foundation Support of University, 1997-2006
• FPPP guidelines on teaching effectiveness: Tenure Track (section 8.5) and Part-time Lecturers (Section 8.2)
• Freshman Year Experience
• New faculty are given reduced teaching loads during their first year to allow them to get experience teaching in a less pressured environment.
• NSSE
• Policy on Outstanding Faculty recognition and Support Committee: EM 05-06
• Policy and Procedures for Faculty Merit Increases (FMIs) linked to teaching excellence: EM 00-99
• Report to the Provost prepared by the Provost's Task Force on Student-Centered Learning
• Research Foundation
• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
• Student Judicial Affairs Academic Integrity
• Student Judicial Affairs catalog link
• Students employed in research
• Teaching portfolios
• Teaching Excellence and Technology
• University Support:
  • Accountability Report, 2002
  • From the President's Desk, 8/30/01 Inside Chico article
• University Writing Center