The MLLO Project:
Exploring the role of
Information Services
Today’s presentation
 Scope of MLLO
 Project status, timeline
 Dialogue about the relationship between
Information Services and UW-Green
Bay’s select mission
 MLLO and the student worker
Quick re-cap of MLLO Project
 Higher Learning Commission’s Academy for the
Assessment of Student Learning
Institutional Accreditation
Assessment of student learning
 February 2008 kick off
3 faculty, Provost, Asso.
Provost, LAS Dean,
Dean of Students, Asst.
Dean for Campus Life,
institutional researcher
Newly formed steering committee attends a
workshop and defines the project :
o How do students master the skills associated with UWGreen Bay’s select mission, and how can we help larger
numbers of students to achieve higher levels of mastery
over those particular skills?
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
Select Mission Statement
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay provides
an interdisciplinary, problem-focused educational
experience that prepares students to think
critically and address complex issues in a
multicultural and evolving world. The University
enriches the quality of life for students and the
community by embracing the educational value of
diversity, promoting environmental sustainability,
encouraging engaged citizenship, and serving as
an intellectual, cultural, and economic resource.
Assessing Student Learning at the Mission Level
UW-Green Bay-Higher Learning Commission Assessment Academy Project
University of
Wisconsin–Green Bay
Select Mission
Statement
The University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay
provides an
interdisciplinary,
problem-focused
educational experience
that prepares students
to think critically and
address complex issues
in a multicultural and
evolving world. The
University enriches the
quality of life for
students and the
community by
embracing the
educational value of
diversity, promoting
environmental
sustainability,
encouraging engaged
citizenship, and serving
as an intellectual,
cultural, and economic
resource.
Residence
Life
General
Education
First-year
Experience
FOCUS
CoCurricular
Activities
Freshmen
Seminars
Student Learning Objectives
Service
Learning
Interdisciplinary, problem-focus
Critical thinking
Diversity
Environmental sustainability
Citizenship
Student
Employment
Majors
Minors
International
Education
Individual
Learning
Inventory schematic example
Interdisciplinary,
Problem-focus
Critical
Thinking
Diversity
Environmental
Sustainability
Citizenship
Ethnic Studies
Requirement
Natural Physical
Sciences
Requirement
World Cultures
Requirement
Diversity
(programming)
Recycling &
Energy
Conservation
(programming)
Peer Boards;
Leadership
Development
programs
Study Abroad –
Merida, Antigua,
Guatemala
Travel Course –
Costa Rica
Study Abroad –
The Hague
Intentional
experiences
General
Education
Residence Life
Residence Hall
Assistant
positions
International
Education
Major: Social
Change and
Development
Senior Seminar in
Social Change
and Development
(required course)
Models of Social
Change (required
course)
Social Change in
Selected Area
(required course)
Internship
Scaffolding example:
Human Development major
Critical Thinking
Diversity
Learning Outcome related to
the MLLO
Students will possess an
understanding of the scientific
methods involved in research
on human development.
Students will recognize the role
of context (i.e., ecological
systems) in the processes of
human development.
Introductory requirement
Social Science Statistics or
Introductory Statistics
Varieties of World Culture or
Introduction to Sociology
Reinforcing requirement
Foundations of Social Science
Research
Ethnic Studies or World
Culture course or Study
Abroad or Travel course or
Upper-level foreign
language/culture course
Demonstrate and Integrate
Options recommended: Senior
Seminar, Honors in Major,
Research Assistantship
Content source:
http://www.uwgb.edu/humdev/about/outcomes.asp
Presented as an example only
“Micro” level scaffolding examples
Environmental
Sustainability
Citizenship
Introductory
opportunities
Taking Sustainable Development
(SS2) or Environment & Society (SS2)
or Introduction to Environmental
Sciences (NPS1) or a similar
introductory course
Taking American Govt & Politics (SS1)
or Introduction to Public Policy (SS2) or
a similar introductory course
Reinforcing
opportunities
Completing a major or minor in an
appropriate field, or taking an
appropriate NPS2 course such as
Issues in Biological Conservation,
Energy and Society, Conservation of
Natural Resources, etc.
Taking a service learning course,
including Phuture Phoenix, or
completing a major or minor in one of
the community science areas or
participating in an appropriate student
organization
Demonstrate
and Integrate
opportunities
Participating in an appropriate student
organization, such as Public &
Environmental Affairs Council, or
completing a sustainability-related
honors project or independent study,
or taking an appropriate study abroad,
such as the Costa Rica travel course
Taking a leadership role in student
government or an appropriate student
organization (such as Habitat for
Humanity, Amnesty International, Circle
K, etc.)
“Macro” level scaffolding is a goal
Interdisciplinary,
Problem-focus
Critical Thinking
Diversity
Environmental
Sustainability
Citizenship
Intentional
experiences
Introductory
opportunities
Reinforcing
opportunities
Opportunities to
demonstrate and
integrate
We eventually want students to have access
to a wide range of opportunities for each of the
five MLLOs at each of the three levels of the
scaffold. Where we encounter empty (gasp!)
or lightly populated cells in the scaffold, we
know we should develop new opportunities.
Ideally it should be difficult for students to
complete a UW-Green Bay education without
exposure to increasingly deep experiences in
all of the five MLLOs.
Four stages
 Inventory opportunities vis-à-vis objectives
 Document assessment practices vis-à-vis
the above opportunities
 Identify gaps and build new opportunities
intentionally
 Re-engineer assessment practices to focus
on mission level objectives
Campus Life results
(some)
To whom does MLLO matter?
 Faculty - clearly responsible for achieving student
learning outcomes
 Many student services areas have stated student
learning outcomes, many of which relate to the
MLLOs
? Many people on campus work with students, but
the implicit and explicit goals of that work have
nothing to do with the MLLOs
? Many other people on campus do not work
directly with students
Should the MLLO Project
expand beyond the assessment
of student learning?
Do we need a MLOO to go with
our MLLO?
Mission Level
ORGANIZATIONAL Outcomes
(if so, is there a better name for it?)
Let’s look at the mission
again…
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay provides an
interdisciplinary, problem-focused educational
experience that prepares students to think critically
and address complex issues in a multicultural and
evolving world. The University enriches the quality of
life for students and the community by embracing the
educational value of diversity, promoting
environmental sustainability, encouraging engaged
citizenship, and serving as an intellectual, cultural,
and economic resource.
Group up by office or unit…
Kathy and her direct reports in one group
MIS folks in one group
User Support in one group
Network folks and Eric from web development in a group
Split library into two groups, maybe “public” and “behind scenes”
Media folks in one group
Telecommunications and engineering in one group
 Pick a neat note taker who will also share with
the larger group later
 Complete one copy of the worksheet as a group
 Please turn the worksheets in for me to share
with the MLLO steering committee
MLLO and the student
worker
 Many positions held by students could
enhance their mastery over one or more
of the MLLOs
 How do/should student employment
position descriptions express MLLO
expectations?
Student Employment and MLLO
Mastery: Mock Grid
Student
Employment
Positions
Interdisciplinary,
Problem-focus
Critical Thinking
Diversity
Introductory
Opportunities
Desk clerk
Reinforcing
Opportunities
Tutor
Opportunities to
demonstrate and
integrate
Student web
developer
CIT Help desk,
student manager
Students who plan
and implement the
theme luncheons in
the union , student
managers
Environmental
Sustainability
Student lab
worker
Citizenship