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LTI-CUL-020

Host bi-weekly "Appreciative Inquiry" collaborative laboratories using clickers

Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearappliesFour-year to four-yearapplies

Mechanism

Students, staff and faculty meet fortnightly with a facilitator and clickers to generate and vote on fixes. The voting is there so the loudest administrator does not decide.

Preconditions

A collaborative lab space, trained facilitators and clicker hardware.

Owner, by role

Director of Collaborative Laboratories / VP of Institutional Effectiveness

Who can act

One institution alone

Effort

Medium, 6 months to first visible effect

Outcome metric

Initiatives designed, ranked and approved for pilot

Failure modes

Brainstorming laboratories can stall if proposed student-success pilots do not receive funded operating budgets from senior leadership.

Contra-indications

None stated

Related practices

  • LTI-CUL-022 Host bi-weekly student government president meetings with administrative leads