Lindenwood Magazine - Spring 2022

8 9 SPRING 2022 EDITION SPRING 2022 EDITION THE LINDENWOOD THE LINDENWOOD DESTINATION LINDENWOOD By Dr. Michael Leary — Assistant Vice President, Research and Compliance “Destination Lindenwood plans new ways to bring the St. Charles community to campus for events and experiences as Lindenwood extends the impact of Lion Country. Destination Lindenwood events will strengthen community partnerships and create new relationships of value for Lindenwood’s wide range of stakeholders and future students. The University looks forward to other new events and campus spaces, like a statewide entrepreneur and business leader summit, an outdoor community garden and learning area, and engaging health and wellness events for the St. Charles area. Destination Lindenwood is all about strategic partnerships, community building, and inviting people on campus for a true Lindenwood college town experience.” DIVERSIFY THE PRIDE — R.I.S.E. By Dr. Shenika Harris — Associate Professor of Spanish “The first year of the R.I.S.E. (Rigor. Inclusiveness. Support. Engagement.) Project achieved its goal of providing full- time faculty with faculty development opportunities (e.g., roundtable sessions, workshops, on-demand resources, etc.) to assist them in designing courses and creating classroom cultures that facilitate effective learning for all students regardless of their identities, backgrounds, levels of preparedness, or abilities. Early wins include R.I.S.E. Student Spotlight interviews confirming the alignment of the R.I.S.E. framework with student expectations and beliefs about their learning experience and preliminary results from the first research study showing the positive impact and benefit of including RISE-related strategies in Lindenwood courses. Full-time faculty participation continues to increase with approximately 80 percent faculty participation in college meeting roundtable sessions and over 40 percent participation in events outside of mandatory roundtable sessions such as consultations, workshops, and professional learning communities. R.I.S.E. has had many first-year successes and is preparing for an equally successful second year to ensure that all faculty are creating rigorous, inclusive, supportive, and engaging courses for Lindenwood students!” LINDENWOOD GLOBAL By Nathan Watson — Assistant Vice President, Online Enrollment Management “The past two years have dramatically changed the landscape of higher education and revealed learner preferences that are rapidly evolving. In the 2019-20 academic year, the percent of college students enrolled in online coursework increased from 37% to 51.8%. Private non-profit colleges have been slower to respond to this shift with only 10.7% of students enrolled in at least one online course, and 21.6% of students enrolled exclusively online. Lindenwood Global is a transformative and attuned response to this shift that seeks to expand Lindenwood University’s presence in the online market by offering relevant programming, modalities that accommodate the time-sensitive needs of adult learners, and a robust student support system. Lindenwood Global has recently added two new roles and appointed an Assistant Vice President of Online Enrollment, Nathan Watson and an Assistant Vice President of Student Financial Services, Cesar Perez. Planning for this exciting growth initiative is underway with an anticipated launch in April of 2023.” MICRO-CREDENTIALS AND IT SERVICES INITIATIVES By Jeanine Cotter — Vice President, Business Development and Christine Lindquist — Director, Professional and Continuing Education “Lindenwood’s micro-credential offerings will prepare learners for the workforce of the future and accelerate their career trajectories. The micro-credential portfolio will serve traditional and non-traditional learners and will provide a surplus- generating revenue stream for Lindenwood. In January, Lindenwood launched three micro-credentials: Certificate in Exercise and Nutrition, Adobe Certification in Photoshop and Illustrator, and GIS Certificate for K-12 Educators. These micro-credentials were developed by Lindenwood faculty with deep expertise in the subject matter and enrollment is expected to grow in upcoming classes. The fourth micro-credential is a co-creation partnership with a company to develop an online, self-paced certificate from their IP. Lindenwood will manage the complete learning environment that the certificate will be offered from. This is an exciting opportunity to build out the infrastructure needed to deliver micro-credentials at scale and to start a commercial learning services business. Managing the infrastructure will give Lindenwood University experience in supporting the user and IT needs of learners all over the world and will position the University to provide formal IT services in the future. Lindenwood students will work in this business, giving them an opportunity to see a business grow and to gain valuable hands- on training in IT, learning services, and customer support. Once the Micro-credentials infrastructure is up and running later this year, the team will focus on new Micro-credential partnerships as well as IT Services partnerships to accelerate the ability to deliver commercial IT Services.” FEATURE STORY FEATURE STORY