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TLA Vision, mission, values, goals, and strategies

Vision

CSUMB educators* help all students integrate learning within and beyond the campus

Mission

Help CSUMB educators* help all students increase and integrate curricular and co-curricular learning

*CSUMB educators include faculty, student affairs professionals, staff, students, and community partners

Values

• Relationships
  • Empathy, honesty, inclusion, communication, collaboration
    
• Holistic mindset
  • Open-mindedness, reflection, empowerment, proactivity, intentionality, strategic thinking, wholeness
    
• Inquiry
  • Bravery, uncertainty, confusion, struggle, curiosity, exploration, problem-solving
    
• Transformation
  • Awareness, growth, improvement, systematic and collective change

Core goals: Help faculty & staff...

• Strengthen community in the classroom and other learning spaces
  
• Increase expertise in culturally responsive facilitation and assessment of student learning
  
• Increase holistic wellness and integrative learning
  

Core strategies

• Partner with other CSUMB educators
• Facilitate professional development activities
• Support culturally sustaining assessment of student achievement and use of results
  
• Network with local, regional, and national organizations
  

Organizations that influence our work

• ITL: California State University Institute for Teaching and Learning
• FDC: California State University Faculty Development Council
• WSCUC: Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior Colleges and Universities Commission
• AAC&U: Association of American Colleges and Universities
• NILOA: National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
• WestEd: Reading Apprenticeship
• POD: Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
• NCORE: National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education
• KORU: The Center for Koru Mindfulness
• ACMHE: The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
• ACE: The American Council on Education
• Strata: Strata Education Network

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