What is UMF EXCEL?
UMF EXCEL, (EXcellence through Connected and Engaged Learning), constitutes a commitment to explore ways that technology can empower learners, enhance face-to-face contact and student-faculty relationships, improve pedagogy, and foster ambitious learning outcomes. Our vision is of a UMF campus where information technology contributes to institutional excellence as we continue to focus on our core mission of providing “quality programs in arts and sciences, teacher education, and human services.” The campus community will use technology to enhance the teaching/learning environment, to maintain the high quality of our instruction, and to empower faculty and students. At UMF, computers will not replace close, personal relationships between students and faculty; they will enhance such relationships. We envision a campus where computers will facilitate active and collaborative learning; they will allow conversations to continue outside the walls of our classrooms; and they will permit stude
