Fourth-Year Experience Board
Charge
The Fourth-Year Experience (LYE) Board, which reports to the Student Engagement Steering
Committee temporarily through the associate vice president for enrollment management, is charged with:
● Reviewing the literature on best practices for the fourth-year experience and
● communicating those best practices to the campus community;
● Creating a coherent and cohesive fourth-year experience based on best practices;
Reviewing the fourth-year student-engagement goals and outcomes to ensure that they
● align with best practices;
● Refining the criteria for KPEs for the fourth-year experience;
Ensuring that all fourth-year Key Points of Engagement (KPEs) meet the student engagement goals and outcomes and the criteria for fourth-year KPEs;
● Recommending the addition of new KPEs and the retirement of existing KPEs as appropriate and needed;
● Communicating and marketing the fourth-year experience program to fourth-year students in collaboration with other groups on campus;
● Working through the board membership to ensure that units responsible for fourth-year
KPEs implement them in the spirit of the fourth-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 fourth-year experience;
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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.