Category: First Two Years
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: March 30, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity College Community, We are looking forward to welcoming Dr. Mahurin back to campus next week. We have arranged a schedule that includes meeting with students, staff, and faculty. Higher education news: The American Council on Education..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: April 7, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Hello Unity! We’ve had another great visit from our F2Y team, and we want to update you on our progress. Things are speeding up a little as we engage more constituencies on campus in the work to..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: April 13, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity College Community, We are continuing our work to develop the morphology of the first two-year experience. Conversations this week have focused on the breadth and depth of student learning outcomes. Our experiences at Unity College..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: April 20, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity, While everything gets very busy on campus in April and leading up to commencement, we continue to work on the First Two Years project and engage the campus in considering what we want Unity graduates..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: April 30, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity College, Our recent conversations have emphasized innovation in academia. Academic innovation can take many forms but most of us agree that it provides high-quality learning experiences that add value to the curriculum, not detract from..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: May 4, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Hello Unity Community! We are excited to be moving forward with some new phases of the First Two Years program this last week. We have submitted a year-end report to the Davis Educational Foundation explaining how we..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: May 14, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty and Dr. Sarah Cunningham To: The Unity College Community Dear Colleagues, Our discussion of college-wide learning outcomes continue to progress as we further refine our expectations for student learning. Of note recently is a common reference to the phrase “backward design” in these conversations. Backward design..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: May 18, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, The bulk of our efforts this week were focused on some of the more detailed elements of effective academic programming, such as pieces that ensure our students are prepared to enter the work force with a relevant skill..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: May 29, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Campus Community, Our current work is predominately focused on college-wide learning outcomes and the online bulletin board as both projects become better defined. President Khoury brought an interesting article to our attention entitled, “It’s Time to End College Majors as..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: June 4, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Campus Community, This week we finalized membership of the F2Y Phase I project team. Members include: · Chief Student Success Officer [CSSO], Brian Doore (Committee Chair) · Chief Academic Officer [CAO], Erika Latty (Committee Vice-chair) · Assistant Director of Financial..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: June 11, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, We had our first meeting of the First Two Year Project Team Phase I ad-hoc committee this week. Our time was spent determining the next steps required to complete our charge of designing a curriculum delivery model with..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : June 18, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, Every year the senior leadership of the college spends dedicated time reflecting on our mission, goals, accomplishments, and future plans. Our deliberations over the past week, reinforced our commitment to reimagining learning experiences for young adults seeking a..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update: June 25, 2018
From: Dr. Brian Doore To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, In the past few weeks, the F2Y Committee members have been hard at work planning for how to take F2Y to the next stage of implementation. Inspired by the Senior Leadership retreat, we have been discussing the importance..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : July 3, 2018
From: Dr. Brian Doore To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, We wanted to provide you with an update on the F2Y initiative. As you may be aware, we recently completed a full work day where teams of faculty and staff worked together to: Examine the Flagship Learning Outcomes..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : July 11, 2018
From: Dr. Brian Doore To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, Today your colleagues met again for an intensive workday to develop a full-semester pilot project for the F2Y initiative. Groups have put forward a variety of innovative and transformational expeditionary learning experiences for Unity students including: People, Plastics..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : July 18, 2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, Discussions at this week’s F2Y Phase I project team revolved around the content and selection of pilot learning pathways to implement in Spring 2019. The pathways were organized into 5 major themes: Research and Management 2. Education and..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : July 26, 2018
From: Dr. Brian Doore To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, The F2Y Phase I project team met this week to discuss several key documents that are in development as the group designs the Spring 2019 full-semester learning experience and lays out the design for the full two year..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : August 3,2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, Forward progress on F2Y design is made daily, largely due to the coordinated efforts of the Phase I Project Team. We are getting close to completing our charge to recommend LOs, delivery model, and calendar for this initiative…Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : August 10, 2018
From: Dr. Brian Doore To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, The First Two Years phase one project team continues to work hard to complete its charge for the first phase of work. Specifically, this group was asked to: Phase 1: Develop the content and morphology of the curriculum and..Read more
December 21, 2018
F2Y Update : August 15,2018
From: Dr. Erika Latty To: The Unity College Community Dear Unity Community, Work continues on ongoing initiatives to articulate first and second year learning outcomes, inventory current partners, and identify supports from student success. We are framing and summarizing our work to date for sharing at the upcoming professional development..Read more
