Tech Tomorrow
Education for Life
Strategic Goal One
Tennessee Tech provides education that unleashes the potential and passion within our students and prepares them for successful careers and culturally enriched lives. Tech also provides educational opportunities, programs, credentials, and degrees to fuel the lifelong learning necessary for enduring achievement.
Faculty Chair of Working Group:
Lenly Weathers, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
LWeathers@tntech.edu
Current Initiatives
Curricular Learning Communities
This task force is examining benefits to students of curricular learning communities. This fall, more than 250 incoming freshmen have been placed in seven different learning communities. The aim of this initiative is to positively impact retention rates, academic achievement (based on GPA course grades), graduation rates, and time to degree completion.
This proposal is also aligned with strategic goal 3 (Exceptional Stewardship).
Task Force
- Lenly Weathers (chair)
- Julie Baker, Associate Dean, College of Education
- Tony Baker, Professor of English, Director of First-Year Composition Program
- Brandi Fletcher, Director of Records & Registration
- Allan Mills, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
- Allen Mullis, Executive Director of Student Success
- Kumar Yelamarthi, Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Microcredentials & Digital Badges
Tech Tomorrow calls for the development of “innovative, stackable credentials.” While certificates have been developed at the graduate-school level as a stair-step for programs, this group will examine how Tech could utilize microcredentials and digital badges to help students through industry-specific or transferable skills badges or credentials, along with providing continuing education avenues for non-traditional learners. A first-step is to make Tech’s Career Readiness certificate program into a digital badge.
