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A Strategic Funding Process: Emphasizing Shared Governance And Transparency, Lynn D. Akey
A Strategic Funding Process: Emphasizing Shared Governance And Transparency, Lynn D. Akey
Lynn D. Akey, Ph.D.
The Purpose
Provide an opportunity and seed funding for innovative ideas to emerge from the campus community in support of the Institution’s strategic priorities.
The Process
The Strategic Priority Funding process that exists at Minnesota State University, Mankato today has roots extending back to pre-2004 as an innovation fund.
- Pre 2004 – An Innovation Fund
- 2004 – Strategic Priority Funding – Administrative
- 2006 – Strategic Priority Funding – Administrative/Planning Sub-Meet
- 2011 – Strategic Priority Funding – Joint Open Process
The process has primarily changed in ways that reflect greater shared governance, transparency, and assessment of results.
The Results
During the …
Exploring Teacher’S Attitudes And Behaviors In Implementing Instructional Technology Into Curriculum, Letitia Walters
Exploring Teacher’S Attitudes And Behaviors In Implementing Instructional Technology Into Curriculum, Letitia Walters
Dissertations
This program evaluation explored how effective integration of technology resources and systems with teacher training and curriculum development can occur despite teachers limited technology competencies. Theses competencies increase when teachers have desire and opportunities to become better acquainted with utilizing digital tools. Perceived technology integration skills of teachers solely, cannot predict the effective integration of technology in student products to address new learning (Ertmer, 2005). Technology integrated lesson plans, the relationship between teachers' beliefs and their use of various strategies to integrate technology and a model that teachers can use to guide them through the necessary changes they will need …
The Student Role In Catalyzing An Innovation Movement In Higher Education, Christopher D. Ashley
The Student Role In Catalyzing An Innovation Movement In Higher Education, Christopher D. Ashley
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the significance of the student role in enhancing the innovative and entrepreneurial landscape of higher education. Furthermore, the paper presents methods in which students can go about catalyzing a movement of change, and discusses examples of how these methods have been effectively applied. It is important to note that the methods and examples included in this paper are by no means the only ways students can go about creating change at their institutions. They are simply some of the methods that have been taught by Stanford University’s University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Program …