Foundations of Excellence^® Launch Meetings

Participation as a member of the Foundations of Excellence National Select Cohort will begin with a required Launch Meeting designed to give campus teams specific information and hands-on experience with all elements of the Foundations' process.

Separate meetings will be offered for the four-year and two-year National Select Cohorts.  

• The four-year campus Launch Meeting is scheduled for July 31st and August 1st, 2008
• The two-year campus Launch Meeting is scheduled for August 4th and 5th, 2008

Registration costs for three participants from each campus are covered in the comprehensive fee.   Additional participants may attend for an additional per person fee of $325. We strongly recommend that each campus be represented by the chief academic officer and/or her/his representative, an institutional research or assessment professional, and the individual(s) who will serve as campus liaison(s) for the Foundations process. In the past we have had campus teams ranging in size from 3 to 18.

During the Launch meeting, institutional teams will learn about the Foundations conceptual model, and become familiar with key Foundations' components including:

• the Foundational Dimensions^®
• the Current Practices Inventory (CPI)
• the Performance Indicators (PI's)
• surveys
• required Foundations Dimension Reports
• the Strategic Action Plan
• project timeline
• Task Force organization
• lessons learned from prior participants

The meeting will be presented in a format designed to foster networking and team development and also relationship development with all members of the Policy Center staff.

Each institutional team will have access to the web-based components of the Foundations of Excellence process. Each team will log on to the institution's unique site on the FoEtec^® web site during the meeting. To make this possible, we request that each team bring a wireless laptop computer to the meeting.  

The meeting location is the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, in Asheville, North Carolina.

To view detailed information about the 2008 four-year institution Launch Meeting, please click here. To view detailed information about the 2008 two-year institution Launch Meeting, please click here. Questions about the Launch Meeting can be directed to info@fyfoundations.org.