Client Information

Project Information

  • Two documents
    • Poster-sized .pdfs
  • Audiences
    • Faculty (primary)
    • Potential new hires (secondary)
    • Administrators (secondary)
    • Internal personnel (secondary)
  • Context
    • File on website
    • Printed in office
      • Any other locations?
  • Key things to do
    • Clarify differences between organizations
      • CTE
        • Focus on teaching support
          • Training?
          • Grant funding?
      • CFL
        • Focus on internal leadership training
          • Department chairs
          • Other administrative levels
    • Clarify own internal structure
    • Highlight important elements
      • New faculty orientation (CTE)
      • Leadership fellows (CFL)
      • Diversity fellows (CFL)
    • Places to find information/content

New client information from Nov. 18

The client has forwarded some information about projects the organization has offered. It likely would be effective to highlight some or all of this information in our materials (likely in a condensed format).

  1. Engaging Conversations is a large, diversity-focused program that we have taken on in concert with Randall Library and HR’s Inclusion and Diversity Officer. We brought Debby Irving here this week (author of Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race) after five weeks of a facilitated, 30-person discussion group around the book. The discussion group included faculty, staff, and community members. We also had two CTE discussion groups around the book and Student Affairs had a 45-member group of their own. We’ll do something else under the Engaging Conversations theme next fall, also intended to spark important conversations about diversity, inclusion, and equity.

  2. The Diversity and Inclusion Teaching Fellows, all 12 of them, have begun in earnest to tackle individual projects aimed at improving the inclusiveness of UNCW teaching practices. They are also coming up with a whole-group project to complete before the end of the spring semester. This is a strong program we'd like to showcase.

  3. CTE & Undergraduate Studies recently received a CAA IN/CO grant to work with Drexel and the College of Charleston on a huge applied learning research project that aims at the creation of an instrument to measure the impact of applied learning experiences. This is a large project with huge quantities of data—there are a lot of STEM people and a lot of teaching people in a room together, so it’s a study in communication, too.

  4. The High-Impact Practices research group is a new, hard-core research team that includes a dean, the Quality Enhancement Plan director, Undergraduate Studies director, directors of assessment for the College of Arts and Sciences and Academic Affairs, CTE/CFL personnel, and a handful of Social Science and Education Researchers. We are trying to tackle our campus’s applied learning practices and find out what varieties of high-impact practices (as defined by the Association of American Colleges and Universities) are happening where and in what forms.

As we sort through this and previous information, we'll want to think about how to organize it into comprehensible sections so that our documents communicate effectively. Think about the narrative you want your documents to tell and then consider what information should be presented and omitted, and how the former should be structured and sequenced.