Quality Education Task Force
Key Stakeholders:• School deans• Department chairs• Graduate Student Association• Student Association• “Rice Education of the Future” student task force
Key Data:• Two years of the Senior Exit Survey• Faculty and Student QETF Questionnaire• Future of Rice Education Student Survey
Core QETF Questions:• What does Rice have to do well in order to fulfill its mission of
quality education and unsurpassed teaching?
• What elements are essential to quality education at Rice?
• What limits the quality of teaching in your dept.?
• What is your dept. doing to further student’s education outside classrooms?
• What is your dept. doing right? What are you proud of?
• What could your department do better?
• Is your dept. better than “X” peer university’s dept. and how would you know?
• What metrics are best to assess teaching and education in your program for undergrads and grads?
Preliminary Findings• A continued commitment to classroom teaching excellence
• Ensure faculty’s optimal teaching/research portfolio to achieve both missions
• Individual mentoring
• Professional development opportunities through research, internships, & leadership development
• Flexible and well equipped classrooms for innovative teaching
• Significantly improved teaching laboratories