Impact: Achievement

We are improving achievement and finding ways to communicate our graduates’ knowledge and skills to potential employers more effectively.

Total bachelor’s degrees completed across the USM continues to rise rapidly in spite of flat budgets.
  • Supporting the emergence of a growing, system-wide infrastructure exploring teaching innovation and excellence.
  • Seeking funding to test a “just-in-time” course preparation tool that provides evidence-based instructional resources to address learner needs and scaffolds better pedagogical approaches.
  • Explore digital badging to provide validated recognition of the “career ready” knowledge and skills gained as part of students’ co-curricular experiences (team work, communications, multicultural awareness, critical thinking, collaboration, and the like).