Summer Collegiate Experience
This KB provides information to L&S departments with courses in SCE.
Main website: https://cae.ls.wisc.edu/summer-collegiate-experience/
The Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE) is a high-impact, quality-learning, first-year experience for students entering the university. This KB explains procedures related to L&S departments with courses in the program.
Objectives of SCE
To provide a residential summer program that offers
- A validating, safe, and inclusive environment that nurtures academic and personal growth
- A foundation to build a strong network among peers, faculty, and staff
- An opportunity to earn degree credits from a variety of UW courses
Courses Selected for SCE
Courses are listed on the SCE website. The SCE Program identified courses because:
- they represent a cross-section of different majors and areas of study
- they fulfill varied general education requirements
- they are common and popular among first-year students
- they reflect the academic interests of past SCE cohorts
Scheduling
SCE courses should have the following details for summer 2024:
- Session is EFF. Summer 2024 dates: Monday, June 24 – Friday, August 2.
- Choose 047 as Section (lecture) number
- Set enrollments at 0 (restrict) in order to restrict enrollment to SCE students
- SCE Classes are taught within two time blocks, AM (9 - noon) and PM (1 - 3:30 pm). SCE staff will work with instructors/departments to find a class time that best fits the instructor’s and SCE program schedules.
Staffing & Funding
In addition to the main instructor, each course may assign one TA. If your needs are different, please contact Nichlos Ewoldt.
- Instructors and TAs appointments will be 64.5% for seven weeks (one week of prep + six weeks of the course, following standard summer appointment levels).
- If we don’t have a TA workload for this iteration of the course, you will be asked to provide one.
- Instructor and TA appointment details will be included on the Expense Details report.
- SCE courses are not part of the Summer Budget Model; there is no cost or additional revenue to the department. Instructors and TAs are funded by 131-2 A480393.
Contacts
- Summer Collegiate Experience
- Nichlos Ewoldt, Assistant Dean & Summer Collegiate Program Director
- Karen Stroud-Phillips, Director & Assistant Dean of the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE).
- L&S Teaching & Learning Administration
- Shirin Malekpour, Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning Administration
- Cathy Yu, Administrative Assistant for Teaching & Learning Administration