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In Progress |
August 2026 |
Overview
Develop a campus-wide, systematic approach to Experiential Learning in collaboration with faculty, staff, and students to further foster EL and bolster IUP student engagement in these critical high-impact practices.
Create a robust administrative infrastructure to optimize IUP’s hybrid approach to Experiential Learning (centralized-decentralized) and increase IUP student engagement in EL, whereby all IUP students participate in, at a minimum, one documented EL experience.
Promote and disseminate EL information, processes (opportunities, timelines, application cycles, etc.), and success stories with current and prospective students and parents/guardians, as well as IUP faculty, staff, and external partners and audiences through an easily recognizable and accessible public-facing EL space/portal (physical and online).
Accomplishment Summary
The Experiential Team (Michele Petrucci, Ileana Townsend, Tammy Manko, Kelly Heider, Adam Jones, Chris Koren, Tiffany Potts) met several times during summer 2026 and is currently finalizing EL staff job descriptions for submission to the IUP Leadership Team and Human Resources for review and final decisions and classifications. Space has been reviewed and tentatively identified.
Progress
Milestone Timelines
September 2026: Finalize positioning and structure to carry EL forward. Identify resources (staffing, space, and funds (start-up and annual operating)) to support EL initiative.
December 2026: Onboard EL Staff
March 2027: Convene Key Stakeholders for EL Council (Select ADeans, Faculty, Navigators, Athletics, Reps from units tasked with Research, Clinical Placements, Student Teaching, Field Schools, Internships, Study Away, Washington Center, Service Learning, On-Campus Employment, Student Leadership, etc. (e.g., Research and Innovation, Office of International Education, Career Professional Development Center, Human Resources, Financial Aid, Student Inclusion Office, etc.)).
June 2027:
- Launch a public-facing EL space/portal (physical and virtual)
- Design EL materials and processes: student success stories (narratives and images), opportunities, timelines, application cycles, etc.
- Develop draft calendar of 2027–28 EL outreach and promotional efforts
- Identify software to track campus-wide EL
January 2028: Pilot cocurricular transcripts; Align EL more closely with curriculum
Priority in Action
Ten students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania completed a unique service-learning project at the Navajo Nation in Arizona as part of an anthropology class taught by Abigail Adams and Amanda Poole.