The VIP Program supports VIP instructors and teams through a variety of centralized services.
Student recruiting
- Online team listings that students can filter by major and UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Campus-wide email campaigns aligned with Phase I & Phase II registration
- Targeted recruiting for low-enrollment teams (emails to specific majors, students who’ve completed specific classes, etc.)
- Poster information sessions (planned by VIP, posters presented by teams)
- Recruiting presentations (freshman experience classes, transfer student classes, orientation programs)
- Recruiting tables (new student orientation, periodic during the school year, etc.)
- Web-based application system
- Central approval of student applications in teams' early semesters. Instructors typically take over in the second semester or year.
Curricular
- Policies on how credits count toward degree requirements (set by academic units, listed on VIP website)
- Campus-wide subject codes and courses
Centralized Instructional Services
- Standard course framework:
- Grading: 1/3 contributions, 1/3 documentation, 1/3 teamwork
- Instructors give feedback to students at midterm and end of semester
- Semesterly syllabus templates
- VIP Notebook grading rubrics
- Peer Evaluations
- Centrally administered
- Color coded results with evaluations by each student for classmates, and for each student by classmates
- Social network diagrams
- Web-based grading and feedback platform
Faculty Professional Development
- Videos on best practices in team start-up
- Workshops for new instructors shortly before their first semester begins (week before classes begin in Fall, before winter break for Spring)
- Round-table lunches, and lunch-and-learn sessions led by VIP instructors
- Faculty Professional Learning Communities can also be coordinated with CTL
No Overhead/Indirect for Team Sponsorships
- VIP teams can be sponsored in the same way as Senior Design projects, with 100% of funding going to the team for “student participation,” with no overhead/indirect costs. Click here for details.