1. The MLLO Project: Data gathering from Campus Life Retreat
MLLO stands for Mission Level Learning Objectives, and is the name for the project UW-Green Bay is doing as a member of the Higher Learning Commission’s Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning.
UW-Green Bay was admitted into the Academy in and will be completing the project over a 4-year cycle.
Since our project focuses on the mission, we should know what it says:

2. University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Select Mission Statement
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay provides an interdisciplinary, problem-focused educational experience that prepares students to think critically and address complex issues in a multicultural and evolving world. The University enriches the quality of life for students and the community by embracing the educational value of diversity, promoting environmental sustainability, encouraging engaged citizenship, and serving as an intellectual, cultural, and economic resource.
According to MS Word, these two sentences have a reading difficulty grade level of 24.9, which is like a post-doc
So, MLLO kind of splits things up into smaller pieces…

3. Student Learning Objectives
Assessing Student Learning at the Mission Level UW-Green Bay-Higher Learning Commission Assessment Academy Project
Student Learning Objectives
Interdisciplinary, problem-focus
Critical thinking
Diversity
Environmental sustainability
Citizenship
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
Select Mission Statement
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay provides an interdisciplinary, problem-focused educational experience that prepares students to think critically and address complex issues in a multicultural and evolving world. The University enriches the quality of life for students and the community by embracing the educational value of diversity, promoting environmental sustainability, encouraging engaged citizenship, and serving as an intellectual, cultural, and economic resource.
The five learning objectives from the mission provide the focus of many of the special opportunities that UW-Green Bay makes available to students.
The MLLO Project knows that virtually every unit on campus that works with students offers at least some experiences that relate, somehow, to one of more of these five outcomes.
The MLLO project’s first goal is simply to organize what we do in terms of how our programs relate to the mission objectives.

4. Four stages Inventory opportunities vis-à-vis objectives
Document assessment practices vis-à-vis the above opportunities
Identify gaps and build new opportunities intentionally
Re-engineer assessment practices to focus on mission level objectives

5. Inventory schematic example
Intentional experiences
Interdisciplinary, Problem-focus
Critical Thinking
Diversity
Environmental Sustainability
Citizenship
General Education
Ethnic Studies Requirement
Natural Physical Sciences Requirement
World Cultures Requirement
Residence Life
Residence Hall Assistant positions
Diversity (programming)
Recycling & Energy Conservation (programming)
Peer Boards; Leadership Development programs
International Education
Study Abroad – Merida, Antigua, Guatemala
Travel Course – Costa Rica
Study Abroad – The Hague
Major: Social Change and Development
Senior Seminar in Social Change and Development (required course)
Models of Social Change (required course)
Social Change in Selected Area (required course)
Internship
This is one way that we have envisioned what we are trying to learn by connecting all the experiences available to students with the MLLO objectives those experiences teach.
Where do we have big gaps?

6. Scaffolding example: Human Development major
Critical Thinking
Diversity
Learning Outcome related to the MLLO
Students will possess an understanding of the scientific methods involved in research on human development.
Students will recognize the role of context (i.e., ecological systems) in the processes of human development.
Introductory requirement
Social Science Statistics or Introductory Statistics
Varieties of World Culture or Introduction to Sociology
Reinforcing requirement
Foundations of Social Science Research
Ethnic Studies or World Culture course or Study Abroad or Travel course or Upper-level foreign language/culture course
Demonstrate and Integrate
Options recommended: Senior Seminar, Honors in Major, Research Assistantship
Another concept we are using is scaffolding. That means introducing students to an idea at one point, deepening their understanding of it with reinforcing experiences, and then giving them a chance to demonstrate their mastery over that concept.
I found the Human Development major’s learning outcomes on the web and you can see how some of their curricular requirements are “scaffolded”.
(Read slide content from critical thinking)
Content source: Presented as an example only

7. “Micro” level scaffolding examples
Environmental Sustainability
Citizenship
Introductory opportunities
Taking Sustainable Development (SS2) or Environment & Society (SS2) or Introduction to Environmental Sciences (NPS1) or a similar introductory course
Taking American Govt & Politics (SS1) or Introduction to Public Policy (SS2) or a similar introductory course
Reinforcing opportunities
Completing a major or minor in an appropriate field, or taking an appropriate NPS2 course such as Issues in Biological Conservation, Energy and Society, Conservation of Natural Resources, etc.
Taking a service learning course, including Phuture Phoenix, or
completing a major or minor in one of the community science areas or participating in an appropriate student organization
Demonstrate and Integrate opportunities
Participating in an appropriate student organization, such as Public & Environmental Affairs Council, or completing a sustainability-related honors project or independent study, or taking an appropriate study abroad, such as the Costa Rica travel course
Taking a leadership role in student government or an appropriate student organization (such as Habitat for Humanity, Amnesty International, Circle K, etc.)
UWGB is too small for us to all do everything alone. Here’s another example of how a student might “scaffold” herself up to a high level of mastery on some of the MLLOs.
(Read through slide content)
In the citizenship example, the student depends on a PEA course, the Education Program’s Phuture Phoenix experience, and a student organization in order to achieve a high level of citizenship-relevant skills.

8. Campus Life “Inventory”
Intentional experiences
Interdisciplinary, Problem-focus
Critical Thinking
Diversity
Environmental Sustainability
Citizenship
American Intercultural Center
Judicial Affairs
Residence Life
Counseling and Health Center
(Together or separate?)
Student Life
Today we are gathering the data needed to begin filling in the Campus Life MLLO Inventory
You’ve got beautiful, packets of multi-colored worksheets to complete as a team!
As you do the worksheets, think about the specific, structured experiences that your unit provides for students which you believe teach students something about one or more of the MLLOs.
Not all functions relate to student learning
Not all learning relates to the MLLOs
Try to stay focused on the activities which are intentionally MLLO-oriented

9. Worksheet packets!
Rate how your unit relates to the five mission objectives on a 5-point scale:
 The MLLO is not relevant to this unit
The MLLO is indirectly relevant, but the unit offers no specific structured experiences designed to promote student achievement of this objective
The MLLO corresponds to a stated learning outcome of an optional course or program delivered by this unit
The MLLO corresponds to a stated learning outcome of a required course or program delivered by this unit (component outcome)
The MLLO corresponds to a learning outcome for this unit (overall outcome)
The first sheet asks you to give an overall assessment of the relationship between your office and each of the MLLOs.
Judicial Affairs would probably have an extremely hard time convincing me that any of its objectives or programs relate to teaching students to make environmentally sustainable choices.
We don’t all do everything!
The 5-point scale is general (review underlined words)

10. MLLO by MLLO… tell us what you do
The balance of the hour will be spent listing out the MLLO-oriented student experiences your office provides.
Get into teams
Hand out packets