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The Umbrella Project helps students, faculty, and staff weather barriers to success.
MultiFaceted SolutionS that integrate Multiple StakeHolders
MultiFaceted SolutionS that integrate Multiple StakeHolders
(Students, Faculty, and Staff)
(Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Our multifaceted solution is comprised of short- and long-term goals.
Short-term goals:
Pilot test 'un-grading' in five general education classes during Fall 2021
Work with ITS to develop a customizable, integrated calendar, Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Work with Department Chairs to create more professional development opportunities for Faculty.
Long-term goals:
Increase educational and development opportunities through Re-Orientation, and create activities that benefit students, parents, faculty, and staff, Spring 2022-Fall 2022.
Have program specific to African American/Black/LatinX student needs that were uncovered during the ideation phase and through future surveys.
Umbrella protection covers multiple stakeholders including students, faculty, and staff, but it also helps other constituents like parents, university neighbors, and local, state, and national partners find information about the university.
As a result of our solutions, stakeholders can have access to each of our proposed solutions so that they can learn more about what Old Dominion University is doing to help prepare our constituents for success.
Our solutions are overarching and affect students, faculty, and staff, and provide ways to help increase Black and Brown student success.
As each prototype is implemented, we will pilot them with various stakeholders and make improvements from their feedback.
What is unique about The Umbrella Project is that it encompasses success measures for Black and Brown students, but also features ways students, faculty, and staff can work together to increase academic success.
This is a multi-pronged approach to a complex problem - each prong is designed to address a variety of solutions through short- and long-term goals. These solutions require partnerships with a variety of stakeholders from faculty, students, and administration.
This is a multi-pronged approach to a complex problem - each prong is designed to address a variety of solutions through short- and long-term goals. These solutions require partnerships with a variety of stakeholders from faculty, students, and administration.
Creating Peer-to-Peer Mentorship programs for all incoming faculty and staff. This will be integrated into New Employee Orientation and throughout the academic year
Faculty, administrators, and staff need to be prepared to be more than just instructors. We propose a multi-step approach to provide training on effective and innovative methodologies, continuous professional development, and training to be great mentors.
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Students need to be prepared on how to successfully navigate the transition to college, and one-day orientations do not provide enough information and structure to prepare students for success. We propose adding team members to the Student Transition and Family Programs office as well as expanding orientation to semester long workshops geared toward increasing student success.
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Let's shift the focus from the "traditional" grading schema (A, B, C, D, F) to an "un-graded" model, where students and professors access their learning throughout the semester in tandem.
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A Customizable University Calendar
We need one place to find information about things that are happening on campus. Separate calendars that do not integrate with each other require people to look in different places and it takes more time to get information that should be readily accessible.
Tradition needs to mesh with innovation; it's time to move away from restrictive practices and work to become more student-ready.
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