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Road Map Propels Continuous Improvement

NMU’s Road Map to 2015 and Beyond academic and university strategic plan, which President Les Wong unveiled in March, has become the impetus to another level of continuous improvement. The plan identifies NMU’s strengths with goals to build upon them and makes working on some of the universities weakness the priority for the foreseeable future. Road Map to 2015 Web site

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Outcomes Assessment	Benchmark Roadmap	Mission Statement

News and Features

	Outcomes Assessment Expert Coming to Campus Susan Hatfield, a nationally recognized outcomes assessment expert and Winona State professor, will visit NMU on January 21-22. Hatfield will give two presentations to faculty and staff, as well as meet with various AQIP committee leaders and members. Details will be announced in December.
	Community Engagement Designation NMU is expected to hear the outcome in December of its application for the Carnegie Foundation’s “community engagement” elective classification. The classification is awarded to universities that demonstrate a high rate of collaboration between the school and its larger communities. Enhanced community engagement is a Road Map to 2015 goal.
	New Nursing Program Helps Teaching Shortage The NMU School of Nursing has a new 12-credit post master's certificate program for nurses wishing to become nurse educators. NMU received a $360,000 grant from the State of Michigan for the program as a means to help the critical nursing faculty shortage in the state, including in the Upper Peninsula. Learn more Helping to meet the needs of the Upper Peninsula is a Road Map to 2015 goal.

HCL Site Visit
As part of NMU’s re-accreditation process, representatives of the Higher Learning Commission’s Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) will visit campus on March 25-27. During this visit, the accreditation team will meet with various groups and individuals to discuss NMU’s work on continuous improvement. Watch for more information about their visit.

Systems Portfolio
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AQIP Coordinator
Cindy Prosen, associate provost and dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Research and Continuing Education, is NMU’s AQIP coordinator. During 2008-09 she is being assisted by Sandi Poindexter, professor of computer information systems in the College of Business. Dr. Prosen and Professor Poindexter can be reached on AQIP and accreditation matters at aqip@nmu.edu.

Committee Leaders
Maybe the motto for continuous improvement should be “It doesn’t take a village, it takes an entire campus.” The AQIP committee leadership and membership demonstrate this fact. If you have ideas about our current or ongoing continuous improvement projects or ideas about improvement at NMU in general, these committee chairs and members can assist in getting the idea evaluated for implementation consideration. AQIP committees and members

Committee Leaders

Maybe the motto for continuous improvement should be “It doesn’t take a village, it takes an entire campus.” The AQIP committee leadership and membership demonstrate this fact. If you have ideas about our current or ongoing continuous improvement projects or ideas about improvement at NMU in general, these committee chairs and members can assist in getting the idea evaluated for implementation consideration.

AQIP committees and members

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