The ENDEAVOR program helps students personalize, internalize, and later articulate their transformation beyond a credential. By awarding ENDEAVOR Tags that celebrate student development and engagement through courses and co-curricular activities, students become more aware of their own growth and are provided with the language to describe the skills they have gained. This language will give them an advantage when entering the workforce, as they will be able to describe their college experience in a way that resonates with employers.
Engagement in the ENDEAVOR framework will be measured from the local database of Tag awards. From this database the institution will create various engagement measures, with the first two being: 1. number of faculty awarding ENDEAVOR Tags in at least one of their courses; 2. Total number of ENDEAVOR tags awarded to students per semester.
KPIs:
- Number of faculty awarding ENDEAVOR tags.
- Number of ENDEAVOR tags awarded to students (per semester) from D2L or Presence
Baseline measure (for each KPI):
- Fall 2023
- 41 Faculty awarded ENDEAVOR tags.
- 1856 Tags were awarded to students via D2L, and 2481 via Presence
Current/most recent data (for each KPI):
Fall 2024
- 39 faculty awarded ENDEAVOR Tags (Not at final count)
- 3553 tags awarded in D2L, 8367 awarded in Presence, and 56 awarded individually.
Goal or targets (for each KPI):
Fall 2024 (Original)
- At least 50 Faculty award ENDEAVOR tags
- At least 2000 Tags awarded to students via D2L, 2000 via Presence.
Fall 2024 (Revised)
- At least 50 Faculty award ENDEAVOR tags
- At least 4000 Tags awarded to students via D2L, 8500 via Presence, and 75 awarded individually.
Time period/duration: As the adoption of ENDEAVOR continues to grow, the goal is to award at least 10,000 tags to students each semester.
After a successful launch during the collegewide Student Success Summit (May 2023), the ENDEAVOR framework was infused in the 2023-2024 new student orientations. Adoption of tags by faculty and staff has continued to expand throughout the 2023-2024 academic year. The College is excited to share that the level of engagement and adoption by faculty and staff this fall is surpassing the goals established even before the term is over, with over 3500 tags awarded through courses and more than 8500 tags awarded through co-curricular activities. With this increase, more aggressive goals have been established, and the project now aims to have at least 50 faculty awarding ENDEAVOR Tags in at least one of their courses, and to surpass 3500 tags awarded through courses and 8500 tags awarded through cocurricular experiences.
With various adoption campaigns still underway, the College continues to work on a reporting infrastructure to provide ease of access to “adoption and award information” for Deans, Department Chairs, and Unit Directors.
Challenges: The reporting infrastructure is established thanks to the support of Technology Services, and we recognize that there is limited bandwidth when this project is added to a list of competing priorities.
Support Needed: The College has engaged with the University of Central Oklahoma to receive support and guidance based on their implementation of the Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) project. This consultative engagement was completed in May 2024 and has led to various process improvements.
The next step in the development of the project is to create an advisory panel consisting of local employers. This panel will help the ENDEAVOR program maintain an alignment of student development with workforce needs.
