Flagship Programs

RISE has two signature programs: the RISE Faculty Institute and the RISE Community Action Teams.

RISE Faculty Institute

The RISE Faculty Institute engages fellows in a year-long learning journey to enhance student success in 100- and 200-level courses required for academic majors. The training includes a semester of workshops and a summer course redesign studio followed by engagement in a community of practice. These strategies are covered in the institute:

• Removing barriers to learning—these are strategies that clear a path for students to be able to learn

• Engaging students, diversity, and differences—these are strategies that support interaction between students, content, and instructor; use diversity as an asset for learning; and/or recognize the influence of different identities and experiences in the classroom

• Fostering academic belonging— these are strategies that cultivate students’ comfort and competence in a faculty member’s course so that students see themselves as current or potential valued contributors to the course, a community of scholars, or the discipline.

The Faculty Institute is a partnership between RISE and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning.

RISE Community Action Teams

Each academic college and the RUC site have an RCAT (RISE Community Action Team).  

The goals of the RCAT are to:

• Build a sense of academic and campus belonging for students within each college through providing inclusive programming.

• Administer the Food For Thought program that provides free food for students weekly all over campus.  

• Review RISE student success assessment data to inform RCAT programming decisions.