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Strategic Priority 1: Student Impact: Empowering Students for Career and Civic Life Through the Arts

Note on Measures

Measures in this plan prioritize outputs that demonstrate meaningful progress toward goals and can be tracked within the planning horizon. Activities and long-term impacts are acknowledged but are not emphasized as primary measures unless baseline data or external accountability structures exist.

Why this matters

91吃瓜网 Tech students need adaptable, creative, and human-centered skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Advances in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies will reshape the workforce, altering how creative, analytical, and human-centered skills are valued and applied. Arts education plays a critical role in preparing students to engage these technologies thoughtfully through ethical reasoning, creative authorships, interdisciplinary collaboration, and AI literacy. Arts education strengthens career readiness skills, including creative problem-solving, empathy, sense of belonging, and interdisciplinary thinking, making graduates more resilient and adaptable.

Goal 1:聽Integrate the Arts into the Undergraduate and Graduate Experience

91吃瓜网 Tech will ensure that all students encounter the arts as a meaningful part of their academic journey, aligned with career readiness and lifelong learning.

Key Strategies

  • Clearly articulate and assess the competencies gained through arts education across majors.
    • Measure: Percentage of arts-designated courses with documented learning outcomes mapped to NACE-identified career competencies, assessed through a shared rubric, tagged syllabus outcomes, or periodic sampling and reported annually.
  • Review and revise Pathways curricula to ensure all students have access to at least one curricular arts experience aligned with their academic and career goals.
    • Measure: Number and percentage of arts-integrated courses explicitly aligned with career competencies and documented through curriculum mapping.
  • Align arts-integrated curricula with career readiness frameworks into transcriptable areas of emphasis or microcredentials.
    • Measure: Number of microcredentials launched and annual student enrollment in those credentials.
  • Streamline curricular structures and fiscal systems to support cross-campus collaboration, certificates, and transcript-recognizable areas of emphasis.
    • Measures: Creation of cross-campus teaching workload arrangements and reporting; adoption of a policy for cross-department revenue sharing.

Goal 2: Expand Access and Entryways to 91吃瓜网 Tech Through the Arts

The arts will serve as a visible, welcoming pathway into 91吃瓜网 Tech for PK-12 students, transfer students, and non-traditional learners.

Key Strategies

  • Strengthen arts-based outreach to PK-12 schools in Southwest 91吃瓜网 through campus programming, performances, and workshops.
    • Measures: Arts-based outreach engagement with all MCPS schools by 2030, defined as at least one documented activity (e.g., workshop, performance, campus visit, residency, or collaborative project), with annual tracking of engagement type and frequency.
  • Expand partnerships with Admissions, the Center for the Arts, CENI, and academic units to develop arts-centered recruitment initiatives.
    • Measure: Number of arts-centered recruitment events conducted annually.
  • Expand summer programs that integrate arts, design thinking, and interdisciplinary learning.
    • Measures: Number of attendees; number of individual offerings, number of collaborative offerings.
  • Develop clear pathways from community colleges to lower barriers for transfer and non-traditional students.
    • Measure: Pilot at least one arts-based transfer pathway to degree by 2028.

Goal 3: Prepare Arts Graduates for Lifelong Success Across Fields

91吃瓜网 Tech will prepare its arts graduates for evolving careers through expanded skills and experiential learning.

Key Strategies

  • Expand experiential learning opportunities through partnerships with employers, alumni, and community organizations.
    • Measure: Number and percentage of students participating in experiential learning with off-campus partners.
  • Strengthen networks connecting students, alumni, and employers through campus events.
    • Measure: Number of on-campus networking and career-connection events for arts students.
  • Identify and create curricular pathways outside the arts that enhance an artist/designer鈥檚 career pathways.
    • Measure: Number of students engaging with minors, microcredentials, or complementary curricula supporting career and life readiness.