On-going Curriculum Support

Keith offers ongoing curriculum support for campuses as they launch, continue, and revise their residential or divisional curriculum. Keith provides this support with monthly campus video calls and group video calls. This ongoing support is exclusively available to campuses Keith has worked with directly to launch their curriculum.

“In my department, I lead the charge of continually collaborating, developing, assessing, and training on our Residential Curriculum. Knowing that in addition to have Keith’s expertise and support every month, but also a cohort of other schools and colleagues available for regular consultation and resource sharing has been invaluable. Our training, our curriculum, and my confidence in leading this for our department have all improved as a result of this relationship!”

Danielle Barone

Assistant Director for Residential Learning Initiatives, UMass Amherst

Benefits of the Campus Calls

Benefits of the Group Calls

Topics Discussed

Educational plan development by functional area
Marketing, branding, and communicating
Document review/feedback
Helping the outcomes choose the strategies
Developmental sequencing
Student staff selection and training
Pro-staff selection and training
Integrating operations: desk, assignments, billing, facilities, security, etc.
Assessment strategies
Staff meetings, staffing, organizational structure
Process management/Air traffic control
Integrating crisis management/students of concern
LLCs & faculty partnerships

"These calls have been very helpful! Personally, I really appreciate the tips and strategies. I was able to directly take the conversation related to sequencing/mapping and use that in our committee. (After I realized how off our sequencing was)! The benefit of having them with Keith is that you have a wealth of knowledge because you work with so many campuses and have tangible experience and examples."

Benefits for Campuses in On-Going Implementation

"It is a great way to have continual touch points with the curriculum. When an institution attends an ICA or has a consultant come in and lead a retreat, afterward the institution is then left to their own devices. The coaching has been a really great way to ask questions as we continue to develop and refine our curriculum. We can really dig into a process, such as selection, that sometimes gets lost in an ICA or retreat. "

Tips for Campus Calls

The campus calls are a chance for each campus to determine the topic and the participants that would be most helpful in advancing their curriculum. These are the suggestions for campuses that past participants had based on their experiences.

Schedule out the topics/focus and participants a semester at a time
More planning and accountability makes this more helpful
Invite different people to different calls based on topic/agenda
Key to have the point person on each call but rotate the participants based on the focus
Topics might include: strategy level discussions about the next steps, meeting with an office that is further ahead than others, meeting with an office that is stuck and needs help getting unstuck, strategizing with the assessment (or other) committee, discussing ways to integrate into recruitment and selection, etc.

Group Video Calls

The group calls have a predetermined topic and are a chance to connect with others doing a curricular approach and crowdsource innovative solutions, strategies, and approaches. The group calls occur once a month with a predetermined topic from those generated by the participating schools. These calls are recorded and available to share with your teams. These were the topics the campuses that participated in 2021-22 identified for the focus of their group calls.

These calls help provide support, advice, and recommendations on both the challenges and opportunities faced on your specific campuses, as well as tackling the trends that most campuses often face. This way, you get both tailored support as well as making connections with others who are facing similar barriers.

"Working with you has been extremely helpful in helping us organize our thoughts, and ideas, and bringing them to life. I love being in contact and connecting with a larger group of other institutions who are also working on curriculums, sharing the challenges, as well as the benefits of adopting a curricular approach. In addition, the ongoing support has helped our department be consistent in our growth, and keep us on track."

Dana Olivo

Smith College

"Being able to get out of the context of our university context and thinking patterns through both the group and individual sessions is so incredibly helpful for our creativity and ability to develop our curriculum. "

Erin Long

University of Texas

Value

The cost for this year of support is $3,000 for a year of individualized, campus-specific, and collective support for your curricular approach. Each of the past three years we have had about a dozen campuses participate. You can read some of their testimonials on this page.

Credentials

Keith has been one of the leaders in developing curricular approaches to learning beyond the classroom in higher education. He has facilitated or co-facilitated retreats with more than 90 campuses to develop their curricular approach.

He is co-author of this book on the curricular approach.