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NMU Attends Strategy Forum

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Every four years, AQIP institutions send a forum of eight people to the Higher Learning Commission in Chicago to participate in a Strategy Forum. NMU joined 10 other schools in a three day retreat from May 18 - 20. The topic NMU has chosen as its focus is Leadership and Communication, one of the nine AQIP categories of continuous improvement. One outcome was the development of an Action Project on Communication and Leadership. Learn more

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Action Project

Updates

NMU received the September 2011 AQIP reviews of our three annual update reports. Copies of these reviews are linked from their respective Action Project pages.

On September 1, 2011, NMU launched a new Action Project entitled, "Developing Feedback Mechanisms and Enhancing Leadership Communication" that will run through December 2012.

NMU Celebrates Reaccreditation

The Higher Learning Commission has formally announced that Northern Michigan University’s accreditation through the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) has been reaffirmed. NMU is on a seven-year accreditation cycle, which means this continuation of accreditation is in place through the 2016-17 academic year. The HLC report indicates that NMU completely satisfied all five accreditation categories: mission and integrity; preparing for the future; student learning and effective teaching; acquisition, discovery and application of knowledge; and engagement and service. Full story

Annual Celebration of Student Works

Each spring, NMU hosts a "Celebration of Student Research, Creative Works and Academic Service Learning." Approximately forty presentations, each 15-minutes in length, as well as posters are part of the day-long celebration. NMU’s student technology awards are also presented.

Current Documents
Current Documents 2010 Systems Appraisal, the Portfolio Feedback (requires NMU log in)

Road Map to 2015
NMU’s Road Map to 2015 and Beyond academic and university strategic plan, which President Les Wong unveiled in March, has become the impetus to another level of continuous improvement. The plan identifies NMU’s strengths with goals to build upon them and makes working on some of the universities weakness the priority for the foreseeable future. Road Map to 2015 Web site Road Map Update (pdf) \| (doc)

Road Map to 2015

NMU’s Road Map to 2015 and Beyond academic and university strategic plan, which President Les Wong unveiled in March, has become the impetus to another level of continuous improvement. The plan identifies NMU’s strengths with goals to build upon them and makes working on some of the universities weakness the priority for the foreseeable future.

Committee Leaders
Maybe the motto for continuous improvement should be “It doesn’t take a village, it takes an entire campus.” The AQIP committee leadership and membership demonstrate this fact. If you have ideas about our current or ongoing continuous improvement projects or ideas about improvement at NMU in general, these committee chairs and members can assist in getting the idea evaluated for implementation consideration. AQIP committees and members

Committee Leaders

Maybe the motto for continuous improvement should be “It doesn’t take a village, it takes an entire campus.” The AQIP committee leadership and membership demonstrate this fact. If you have ideas about our current or ongoing continuous improvement projects or ideas about improvement at NMU in general, these committee chairs and members can assist in getting the idea evaluated for implementation consideration.