Third-Year Experience Board
Charge
The Third-Year Experience (TYE) Board, which reports to the Student Engagement Steering
Committee temporarily through the provost, is charged with:
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Reviewing the literature on best practices for the third-year experience and
communicating those best practices to the campus community;
Creating a coherent and cohesive third-year experience based on best practices;
Reviewing the third-year student-engagement goals and outcomes to ensure that they
align with best practices;
Refining the criteria for KPEs for the third-year experience;
Ensuring that all third-year Key Points of Engagement (KPEs) meet the student
engagement goals and outcomes and the criteria for ;
Recommending the addition of new KPEs and the retirement of existing KPEs as
appropriate and needed;
Communicating and marketing the third-year experience program to third-year students
in collaboration with other groups on campus;
Working through the board membership to ensure that units responsible for third-year
KPEs implement them in the spirit of the third-year goals and outcomes and assess them
appropriately;
Evaluating the suitability and feasibility of measures identified by units for KPE
assessment and coordinating those measures to reduce redundancy and to promote
collaboration;
Reviewing and evaluating KPE assessment data and making recommendations to
responsible units about ways to improve the third-year experience;
Representing the board members’ respective units on the board; and
Communicating the board’s decisions and recommendations to the Student Engagement
Steering Committee and to the appropriate units.