The Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success (“the Profiles”) were co-created by faculty, staff, and students as the guiding framework for undergraduate learning at IUPUI. All undergraduate programs mapped program level learning outcomes to the Profiles in the spring of 2019 and the Profiles became the official undergraduate learning outcomes in fall 2019.
Each of the four profiles (communicator, problem solver, community contributor, and innovator) supports and enhances the others. Students have many opportunities to reflect on and make connections between their classroom and co-curricular learning as they deepen their disciplinary understanding and refine what it means to be a well-rounded, well-educated person prepared for lifelong learning.
In the spring of 2021, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and the Institute for Engaged Learning offered a professional development series to help programs map learning outcomes from capstone courses and other courses in the curriculum to the Profiles. Handouts from this professional development series, including links to recordings from each session of the series, are available for viewing.
To learn more the Profiles, please visit https://profiles.iupui.edu/. And to learn more about connecting your course outcomes to the Profiles and participate in future workshops, please visit the CTL website.
Principles for Graduate and Professional Learning
An important role for faculty at IUPUI is engaging in graduate education. Revising courses and developing new degree programs can embody significant contributions in teaching. This work can sometimes lead to new scholarship or impact faculty research. As you think about making curricular changes or proposing new courses for graduate and professional students, look to the Principles of Graduate and Professional Learning. Use these principles to build measurable outcomes into your proposal and to facilitate program review.
These principles touch on four core areas:
Demonstration of essential knowledge and skills in a subject/research area
Effective communication and dissemination of information
Critical and creative thinking
Ethical and responsible behavior personally and professionally
These same criteria should be applied in evaluating graduate and professional student research and creative scholarship. Students should be evaluated and graded each semester when engaged in research to ensure they are aware of their progress. Many departments on campus have developed rubrics for evaluating student research based on the Principles of Graduate and Professional Learning. For more guidance, visit the websites for the IUPUI Graduate Office and the IUPUI Graduate Mentoring Center.
Additional Resources
ePortfolios – a framework for learning and seeing connections to the Profiles, it is a space for students to collect evidence of, reflect on, articulate, and create new learning over time. ePortfolio initiative provides guidance to instructors interested in incorporating ePortfolio pedagogies into their courses.
Documentation is Crucial, so is Protecting your Time
“Record and document all teaching activities and keep all evaluations of teaching. Learn to say “no” when you can’t do it!”
– Submitted by a former new faculty member.
Need-to-Know for New Faculty
Register for the Virtual 2022 Plater Institute to be held on April 21
This year’s Plater Institute theme is Interculturality and Inclusivity: Pedagogies that Dig Deep. The institute will feature a keynote address by Dr. Kathryn Sorrells on Engaging Pedagogies and Practices for Human Dignity, Inclusion, and Justice: An Intercultural Praxis Approach.
Faculty and staff from various IU campuses will lead panel discussions and interactive concurrent sessions on diverse, but interrelated facets of the theme. Learn more and register.
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“Record and document all teaching activities and keep all evaluations of teaching. Learn to say “no” when you can’t do it!”