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.

Registration costs for three participants from each campus are covered in the comprehensive self-study 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. Typically, institutions send 3-9 campus representatives who will have a leadership role in the self-study process.

Separate meetings will be offered for four-year and two-year institutions.  

Registration Closed

• Register for the Launch Meeting for four-year institutions scheduled for July 29-30, 2010
  
  
• Register for the Launch Meeting for two-year institutions scheduled for August 2-3, 2010

The following forms of payment are accepted: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Purchase Order, and Checks

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

• the Foundational Dimensions^®
• the Current Practices Inventory (CPI)
• the Performance Indicators (PI's)
• surveys
• Dimension Reports
• the 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 Gardner Institute 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.

Questions about the Launch Meeting can be directed to Angela Whiteside at whiteside@fyfoundations.org or 828-966-5311.