At its May 2011 meeting, the Board of Trustees adopted a statement of Mission, Vision, and Values for to guide the Strategic Planning process at Trinity University. The vision for Trinity is to “define the new liberal arts experience.” The first step in moving us towards that vision is to “create a leading edge liberal arts and sciences curriculum to define the new liberal arts, integrating professional and pre-professional programs, striving for excellence in faculty research, and enabling productive collisions among different disciplines” (objective 1 of the strategic plan).
In March 2012, the participants in the Curricular Design Lab. Feedback on the model will be solicited through the end of the Spring 2012 semester. A faculty committee continued to develop this draft - in light of received feedback and continued research - in the Summer of 2012. The committee will share their draft with the faculty in September 2012 and continue to collect feedback and impressions on the direction of th proposed curricular revisions throughout the fall 2012 semester. As the table on the process of Curricular Review and
Development indicates, the comments from the retreat will serve as the basis
for several curricular models, which will be refined after the opportunity for
comments, and the revised models will then voted on by the faculty at a special
faculty meeting. Subcommittees, appointed by the Strategic Planning Committee,
will be examining the opportunities presented by the objectives of the
strategic planning process, and will work in tandem with the curricular review
process to consider the role of those objectives in the education of a Trinity
student. |