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System-wide Academic Task Force - PreK-12 Strategy

Mission 

To formulate recommendations regarding how to reaffirm and focus the University’s commitment and capacity, system-wide and across all campuses, collegiate units, and support units, to create meaningful and effective partnerships with preK-12 education; and to produce a report that will serve as the framework for the ongoing development of the Consortium for Post-secondary Academic Success and for other system-wide efforts around preK-12 education.

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding how efforts of the University can be aligned with those of the Minnesota post-secondary education community, the philanthropic community, businesses, and the preK-12 education community.

• Recommendations on how we can more effectively help to provide all children and their families with the information they need to understand college options.  This includes immigrant and second language populations, and first generation populations.

• An analysis of what we can learn from existing programs that have experienced some success (e.g., Admission Possible, Destination 2010, Learning Works at Blake, the Multicultural Excellence Program, Wallin Scholars, etc.).

• An analysis of commonalities and differences across Minnesota in educational needs and opportunities, and what they mean for the University.

• Recommendations about the roles that the University should take in efforts to increase permeability of boundaries between preK-12 and post-secondary education, with a goal of effectively serving both high achieving students as well as students facing developmental difficulties.

• Analyses of ways that we could/should be using summer sports and other community programs to create University connections to youth.

• Recommendations about the University’s role in driving or assisting middle school and high school reform efforts so that all students are prepared for college success.

• Recommendations about how the U should be engaged with early childhood and elementary school programs.

• Recommendations about how we might knit together the array of school, family, and community resources to address the range of educational, social, and health issues facing children and their families, and that affect their ability to succeed.

• An analysis of who the University stakeholders are that need to be included in our preK-12 efforts, and what their stake is in our efforts

Report due: December 10, 2005

Task force charge letter from Robert J. Jones, Senior Vice President for System Administration and E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs Patricia Harvey, Campbell Visiting Endowed Chair in Urban Education and University Distinguished Fellow, CEHD Geoffrey Maruyama, Assoc Vice President, Office of Multicultural and Academic Affairs, and Professor, Educational Psychology, CEHD Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Charles (Chuck) Campbell Professor, Physics, IT Paul Deputy Dean, College of Education and Human Services, UMD Carlos Mariani Rosa Executive Director, Minnesota Minority Education Partnership and State Legislator, Minnesota House of Representatives Patty Phillips Superintendent, N. St. Paul/Maplewood/Oakdale Schools Art Rolnick Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Bruce Schelske Director, TRIO Programs, GC Alice Seagren Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Education Alexander Hermida Student, CCE

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