ROLE OF EACH MEMBER

In planning the project’s implementation, we have divided our activities into four separate but inter-related phases. Each partner in the project will actively contribute to each of the project’s phases. For each phase, project partners will conduct studies and prepare reports on best practices in the SCHE sector in the given policy area under discussion. Those reports will be presented at each international conference and will form the framework for discussions and exchange of ideas and best practices. In addition, each project’s member will have the responsibility of organizing one international conference, analyzing and systematizing the comparative results from it, and promoting and disseminating those results amongst the international community. Finally, each member will be actively involved in the feasibility study on potential collaboration in the development of dual/joint SCHE degrees.

An evaluator, independent of the project, will have the responsibility to oversee the implementation of the project on behalf of all of its partners. The project’s evaluator, Dr. Ron Opp, Associate Professor at the University of Toledo’s College of Education and the Executive Director of the National Council on Student Development (NCSD) National Office, will assess the result of each phase of the project including the methodologies involved in the data collection and analysis of the national studies, the organization, progress and effectiveness of each international conference, the comparative studies as a result of those conferences and the potential of the feasibility study. A final evaluation will assess the project’s effectiveness in reaching its goals and disseminating its results. In addition, as an internal mechanism for evaluation amongst the members of the project, several working group meetings will be organized amongst all members conducted during the three required annual meetings of FIPSE/DG EAC.