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Gloria Oikelome, Lincoln University’s director of the Office of Assessment & Accreditation, will present at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education 2015 National Conference in Washington, D.C. in December.
Middle States is a voluntary, non-governmental, membership association that serves as an accrediting body for higher education.
Her presentation, “Facilitating General Education Reform through Academic and Student Affairs Partnerships: It Takes A Whole University to Educate a Whole Student,” focuses on the ongoing process of general education reform at Lincoln University and strategies used by the division of both Academic and Student Affairs to demonstrate the positive impact of in-and out-of-classroom experiences on student learning. The presentation is in keeping with the increased focus in higher education to find ways to increase collaboration between the two sides of the “university house” in order to enhance the student experience and address student their needs in a more holistic and multi-faceted way.
“Having attended these conferences for some time now, I never thought to have an opportunity to take a process at my particular institution and share it as a best practice on such an important platform,” Oikelome said. “While we are still in the middle of evaluating our General Education curriculum and institutional learning outcomes, it is very rewarding to have our progress recognized. Presenting about our University at a Middle States conference is something we can all be extremely proud of because it speaks to all the hard work and efforts of both the faculty and staff to right size our assessment process and demonstrate institutional effectiveness.”
Founded in 1854, The Lincoln University (PA) is the FIRST of four Lincoln Universities in the world and is the nation’s FIRST degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The University combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. Today, Lincoln, which enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women, possesses an international reputation for preparing and producing world-class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the FIRST African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Lillian Fishburne, the FIRST African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy; Langston Hughes, the noted poet; Kwame Nkrumah, the FIRST president of Ghana; Nnamdi Azikiwe, the FIRST president of Nigeria and a myriad of others.