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November 2018 Student Success Updates
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Introducing Block Tuition
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Late last spring, the MSU Board of Trustees approved a plan to fundamentally alter the way in which undergraduate students are charged tuition starting in Fall 2019. MSU has long operated on a per-credit tuition structure. The new tuition model - called block tuition - charges students a fixed price for taking anywhere between 12 and 18 credits each semester. This change is considerable, and its careful implementation essential.
The work dozens of offices and units are doing, working through policies, procedures, and structures, is critical to our students' success, and the manner in which they are working is a model of shared governance for MSU.
Read more about Block Tuition here. |
Help us prepare the institution to implement block tuition in ways that best support student learning and success.
Join us for the Block Tuition Summit on
December 7, 2018. During this interactive summit, the three block tuition workgroups will present data and research they have conducted, propose changes to policies, discuss the programs, norms, and structures that should be reformed or revised, and create a space to discuss the implementation of block tuition across the institution. We need your support and insights.
Block Tuition Summit Details:
Friday, December 7, 2018
11:00 am-2:00 pm
Kedzie S107
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Digital Learning: What exactly do you mean?
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Brendan Guenther was recently named MSU's first Chief Academic Digital Officer. In this forward-thinking position, he is tasked with setting the digital learning design strategy for the institution. Read his thoughts about digital learning on the blog of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology.
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| MSU Dialogues CrowdPower Campaign |
A big thank you to everyone who supported MSU Dialogues on Giving Tuesday or #GiveGreenDay this year. Over the past year, MSU Dialogues has played an important part in encouraging faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students
to have civil dialogue across difference. Thanks to the generous support of donors, they reached 57% of their goal on Giving Tuesday! They are still raising funds through CrowdPower up until December 26, 2018.
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MSU Graduation Rate Rises To Record Level
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Michigan State University's broad-based student success initiatives have helped students complete degrees and helped propel the graduation rate to a new record:
80 percent of first-time, full-time students who entered MSU in 2012 graduated by 2018. Of the 8,214 who entered, 6,567 graduated within six years, which is the standard time frame for measuring graduation rates.
Read more here.
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In the summer of 2017, MSU launched the first Science Gallery International location in the Americas: Science Gallery Lab Detroit. Its first exhibition, HUSTLE, engaged
15-25 year olds in experiences that are connective, participative, surprising, and that blend art, science and technology. Mediators played an important part of visitors' experiences at the Lab. Manna Chowdry, a high school student at the time, became a mediator and recounts her story on the MSU Hub blog.
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MSU senior Eric Glass Jr. has made the most of his time as a student. He has studied abroad five times, conducted research on biostatistics and epidemiology and co-founded a nonprofit organization with his best friend.
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To better support the work and work lives of the university's postdoctoral fellows and its
Postdoctoral Association, Michigan State University has established the
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
Antonio Nunez, the Graduate School's associate dean for academic affairs and postdoctoral education, will serve as the office's faculty advisor and interim director while MSU conducts a search for a director next year. Nunez's appointment will be effective Jan. 1.
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Lindsay Tigue, who earned her B.A. in English at Michigan State University in 2007, is being recognized for her outstanding post-graduate work at the University of Georgia. She is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
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The #ITeachMSU Commons is a forthcoming platform for educators, by educators, with a nearly five year history of development. Building from the Graduate School's Inside Teaching MSU website and graduate student educator workshops, the efforts expanded to the hashtag #ITeachMSU on social media and faculty-facing channels, to continue conversations around teaching and learning at MSU without barriers of time and physical space.
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ICYMI: More Spartan Success Stories
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A number of additional MSU student success stories that may interest you this month include:
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Sincerely,
Mark Largent
MSU Interim Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies
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