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Goal: We provide high-impact learning experiences, impactful classroom instruction and experience-driven learning Â鶹´«Ã½ to create a hub of academic excellence for honors Â鶹´«Ã½s to thrive as scholars.

Key Metrics:

1. Graduate 180 Â鶹´«Ã½s annually.
2. Maintain 90% retention rate of first-year honors Â鶹´«Ã½s at the university and 80% within the honors college (fall-to-fall).
3. Recruit and yield 25% of WMU's incoming first-year class annually.

Goal: We create and nurture community and campus partnerships to provide Â鶹´«Ã½ for honors Â鶹´«Ã½s to engage with, receive, and provide support in the WMU and Kalamazoo communities. 

Key Metrics:

1. Increase building space utilization for both course meetings and programming to 50% occupation during available operating hours.
2. Coordinate at least 1,200 hours of service annually to campus and Kalamazoo community.
3. Fully enroll five Study in the States courses annually.

Goal: We foster a sense of belonging among the honors Â鶹´«Ã½ body and provide a welcoming, inclusive environment for all members of the honors community.

Key Metrics:

1. Maintain a Â鶹´«Ã½ population representative of the WMU undergraduate Â鶹´«Ã½ body with respect to race and ethnicity as well as Pell Grant eligibility.
2. Offer a minimum of five WMU Essential Studies courses annually that fulfill the Diversity and Inclusion SLO.
3. Offer LHC program fee scholarships for Â鶹´«Ã½s in select WMU programs and those with demonstrated financial need.

Goal: We offer courses, experience-driven learning Â鶹´«Ã½, and study abroad experiences that prepare honors Â鶹´«Ã½s to thrive and contribute as citizens on the global stage.

Key Metrics:

1. Offer honors college study abroad Â鶹´«Ã½.
2. Secure annual donor contributions to fund study abroad scholarships up to $50K per year.

Goal: We provide guidance and facilitate mentorship between honors Â鶹´«Ã½s and WMU faculty or practicing experts in their respective fields that lead to the publication of an honors thesis based on Â鶹´«Ã½s' undergraduate research or creative scholarship. 

Key Metrics:

1. Award $30,000 annually in research funding to honors Â鶹´«Ã½s .
2. Recruit five new faculty thesis chairs annually.
3.  Establish a structured faculty development program for honors thesis mentorship.

Goal: We are committed to the responsible and sustainable use of our resources and provide our Â鶹´«Ã½s with meaningful learning Â鶹´«Ã½ so that the value of sustainability is an innate aspect of their future lives.  

Key Metrics:

1. Offer a minimum of five courses annually that fulfill the WMU Essential Studies Planetary Sustainability SLO.
2.  Facilitate at least ten impactful learning and engagement Â鶹´«Ã½ annually with a planetary sustainability focus. 

Goal: We support our Â鶹´«Ã½s holistically through courses, events, advising, peer mentoring, programming, and other learning Â鶹´«Ã½ for honors Â鶹´«Ã½s to engage in self-discovery and exploration, so that they are prepared to pursue healthy, fulfilling professional, and personal lives as graduates. 

Key Metrics:

1. Offer a minimum of six courses annually that fulfill the WMU Essential Studies Personal Wellness SLO.
2. Offer at least one personal wellness enrichment opportunity weekly during the academic year.

College-Wide Student Learning Outcomes

The Lee Honors College at Â鶹´«Ã½ (WMU) was founded in 1962. The honors college now serves more than 1,900 undergraduate Â鶹´«Ã½s and for the first time in college history will implement and begin to measure college-wide Â鶹´«Ã½ learning outcomes during the 2018-19 academic year. The information below outlines proposed Â鶹´«Ã½ learning outcomes as well as the plan to measure them to ensure continuous improvement of Â鶹´«Ã½ success led by data-driven decisions.