Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE)

路易斯安那州泽维尔大学的卓越模范机构奖将支持大学系统变革的启动和实施，这将导致（非健康）科学、工程和数学（SEM）学生成绩的显著改善，具体如下：o泽维尔大学在SEM学科毕业的学生人数增加98%（从43人增加到85人），预计保留率为75%；•每年在研究生院和专业学院就读的泽维尔管理学院毕业生人数翻了两番（从16人增至64人）；o在大学行政当局的全力支持下，发展能维持学生新预期成绩水平的学术及基建设施；建立和记录一个成功的和可复制的模式，为SEM本科生准备研究生/专业学校或专业安置。为了实现这些目标，将在设施、课程、学生服务和学生奖学金援助方面发生重大变化。大学承诺拨款约七百万兴建新设施（一九九七年底前），以配合上述改变，并为之提供补充。新设施将可满足教职员及学生在管理学院感兴趣的学术领域现有及预计的需要。在这个项目中特别感兴趣的SEM学科将包括生物学（非医学预科）、化学（非预科）、计算机科学、数学、物理和双学位工程项目。该项目的发展是通过大学大多数高级行政官员的广泛和公开讨论完成的，包括校长、执行副校长、学术事务副校长、发展副校长、文理学院院长、学术系主任、特别项目主任和其他选定的教职员工。这种沟通与合作的过程将继续下去，并将扩大，以包括企业和公共部门以及其他大学的代表作为咨询委员会的一部分的投入。该项目的评估将是一项持续的活动，建立在现有学生成果的基线数据基础上，并根据项目描述中规定的具体愿景、目标和目的进行评估。评估过程将在国家科学基金会确定的技术助理的密切合作下进行。项目从规划阶段到实施，将被仔细记录，以提供最佳机会，以制定一个可在全国可比学术环境中复制的模型过程和计划。2路易斯安那州泽维尔大学

9550507 Garibaldi The Model Institutions for Excellence award to Xavier University od Louisiana will support the initiation and implementation of systemic changes in the University that will result in significant improvements in (non-health) Science, Engineering and Mathematics (SEM) student outcomes as follows: o a 98% increase (from 43 to 85) in the number of Xavier students graduating in SEM disciplines based on a projected 75% rate of retention; o a quadrupling of the number (from 16 to 64) of Xavier SEM graduates enrolling, annually, in graduate and professional schools; o the development of an academic and physical infrastructure that will sustain, with the full commitment of the University's administration, the new projected level of student outcomes; and o the establishment and documentation of a successful and replicable model for SEM undergraduate student preparation for graduate/professional school or professional placement. To attain these goals, major changes will occur in the areas of facilities, curricula, student services, and student scholarship assistance. These changes will be coincident with and complemented by the commitment of the University to secure funding of approximately $7 million to construct a new facility (by the end of 1997) to accommodate existing and projected needs of faculty and students in the SEM academic areas of interest. The SEM disciplines of particular interest in this project will include Biology (non-premed), Chemistry (non-ppemed), Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and the Dual Degree Engineering Program. The development of this project has been accomplished through a process that involved extensive and open discussions among most of the senior administrative officers of the University including the President, Executive Vice President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Development, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Academic Department Chairs, special Program Directors, and other selected faculty and staff. Thi s process of communication and cooperation will continue and will be expanded to include the input of the corporate and public sectors and representatives from other Universities as part of an Advisory Council/Committee. Evaluation of this project will be an on-going activity built on the establishment of baseline data on existing student outcomes and assessed against the specific visions, Goals and Objectives set forth in the program description. The evaluation process will be performed in close collaboration with Technical Assistants identified by the National Science Foundation The project, from the planning stage and through its implementation, will be carefully documented to provide the optimum opportunity for the formulation of a Model Process and Program that is replicable in comparable academic environments around the country. 2 Xavier University of Louisiana