SACS

Undergraduate Evening Students

How can we improve The Citadel?
We need your ideas.

As part of the upcoming reaccreditation process, The Citadel will prepare a thorough Quality Enhancement Plan that is intended to improve the environment for student learning. The plan will engage the entire Citadel community and will lead to actions that involve each of its constituencies over a period of several years.

For this reason, the Strategic Planning Committee is inviting everyone connected with The Citadel — cadets, graduate students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the college — to offer ideas on how best to improve student learning. Once the Quality Enhancement Plan has been developed, its completion will be widely publicized, and it will be available to everyone.

You can make three different kinds of suggestions, and as many suggestions as you wish of each type; but remember, every suggestion should address ways to improve the environment for student learning:

If you choose, you may add your name to the comment, but you may also make your suggestions anonymously.

(For more information about reaffirmation — what it is and why we're doing it — please click here.)

Suggestion Type #1: Suggestions for change to specific policies now in effect, or for specific new policies that should be added, that could affect student learning. Examples:

  • add a writing requirement to all undergraduate core curriculum courses,
  • require graduate students to participate in a mentoring program in their field of specialization,
  • reduce the time that cadets are required to perform barracks duties,
  • add more study carrels to the library,
  • designate specified rooms in academic buildings as study halls and equip them with ports for laptop computers.

Suggestion Type #2: Suggestions for general goals to work toward that could affect student learning. (For this kind of suggestion, the specific policies would need to be worked out later.) Examples:
  • Increase the marketability of graduates in the job place,
  • Increase student participation in research in their major fields of study,
  • Increase student participation in the life of the community,
  • Increase the intellectual climate on campus, and
  • Increase the number of students who study abroad.

Suggestion Type #3: Suggestions for a broad, governing theme that indicates a general direction for the plan to increase student learning, and that might incorporate several different goals. Examples:

  • Commitment to State and Nation (used at Texas A & M University),
  • Reducing Barriers to Student Success (used at East Tennessee State University),
  • Retaining Students and Helping Them Persist (used at Richland College, and at Memphis College of Art),
  • Enhancing Life and Learning (used at Transylvania University), and
  • Engaging Students More Effectively Toward the Goals of Improved Learning and Development (used at Morris College, and at Radford University).

When you have completed your suggestions by filling out the boxes, please click on the "submit" button, below.

 

Thank you for your time and for your interest in improving the teaching and learning environment at The Citadel.

The Citadel

If you have questions about this form or The Citadel's Quality Enhancement Plan,
please e-mail or call
Professor Robert A. White
in The Citadel's office for the SACS reaffirmation project
(843-953-2734).