Survey Overview

The Career Ready, World Ready faculty survey will ask about the relationship of a course a faculty member regularly teaches to 8 competencies: collaboration, communication, critical thinking & applied problem solving, ethical & professional engagement, leadership, self awareness & growth, social complexity, and technological literacy.

These 8 questions will ask you to consider whether the competency’s associated indicators are explicit to students (for example, called out in learning outcomes and/or instructions for an assignment or activity), implicit to students (part of the experience but not intentionally called out), or not present at this time. The competency definitions and associated indicators are available below.

Following the competency questions, you will have the opportunity to describe specific activities and activities that advance one or more of the competencies, and/or to upload course materials that offer additional context. Initiative leaders would love to hear about how you embed these competencies in your teaching and follow up to highlight innovative and effective examples. You will have the option to answer the survey for a second course you regularly teach.

Competencies & Indicators

Collaboration

Build and maintain collaborative relationships grounded in mutual accountability and shared goals. 

• Work effectively with others to establish shared goals (e.g. complete a task, solve a problem, create something). 
• Exercise compromise and agility in collaboration with others, potentially shifting one’s own priorities and perspectives in ways that serves the common good. 
• Identify, navigate, and resolve conflicts that arise, ensuring that all parties are involved in the resolution process. 
• Promote shared accountability for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables, including completion of thorough work by agreed upon deadlines. 
• Help collaborators move forward when projects become ‘stuck’ by articulating alternative approaches, ideas, or proposals. 
• Motivate collaborators to contribute by expressing confidence about the importance of the task and the team’s ability to accomplish it. 

Communication

Build and maintain clear, open, and effective channels of communication.

• Use knowledge of context, audience, and purpose to shape communication choices. 
• Critically evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of written, verbal, non-verbal, and/or visual communication. 
• Organize and deliver written and oral communication so that messaging, ideas, and/or claims are understandable, compelling, and/or actionable to others. 
• Listen actively and attentively to others, taking time to understand and ask relevant questions without interrupting.  
• Find, interpret, evaluate, use, and/or create visual and/or aural sources to achieve meaningful communication. 
• Integrate or deftly move among multiple communication modalities as relevant to context, audience, or purpose. 

Critical Thinking & Applied Problem Solving

Use critical, evidence-based inquiry and analysis to design, evaluate, and implement workable strategies to solve complex problems. 

• Gather and analyze information from diverse sources and perspectives to fully understand the scope of a problem. 
• Recognize and navigate constraints, including time constraints, limits of available information or standard procedures, gaps in knowledge, and/or absence of alternative perspectives.  
• Design processes to create or locate and accurately summarize and interpret data (e.g. quantitative, qualitative) with an awareness of personal biases or biases in the data. 
• Create a new product, system, experiment, or process to make sense of or solve a problem. 
• Monitor, evaluate, and when necessary, adjust implemented solutions. 
• Show a willingness to deploy originality and creativity if existing methods or procedures limit effectiveness of solutions. 

Ethical & Professional Engagement

Leverage integrity, values, dependability, and accountability to create decision-making frameworks that promote ethical outcomes.

• Act equitably toward others by considering unintended impacts and others’ perspectives. 
• Integrate integrity and values into decision-making processes. 
• Demonstrate dependability by being present, prepared, and engaged. 
• Identify goals or expectations and show attention to detail required to meet or exceed them. 
• Consider short-term and long-term impacts prior to making decisions or taking actions.  
• Develop and execute ethical processes that support the accomplishment of stated goals. 

Leadership

Guide, influence and inspire others using clear communication, strategic visioning, and active listening. 

• Develop vision and strategy to support others in planning, initiating, managing, completing, and evaluating projects. 
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence to effectively anticipate, acknowledge, manage, and resolve conflicts. 
• Act with integrity and accountability to self and others. 
• Seek out and integrate feedback from others to inform direction. 
• Lead by example rather than by dictate. 
• Build and maintain mutual trust to motivate and inspire others. 

Self Awareness & Development

Chart courses of action that help you seek opportunities, achieve goals, navigate challenges, learn and reflect, and intentionally apply the other competencies to experiences in career, community, and citizenship. 

• Show an awareness of one’s own values, interests, strengths, limits. 
• Actively identify areas for continual growth by inviting and applying feedback. 
• Set goals and develop strategies and interpersonal networks to achieve them, continuously monitoring progress, reflecting, and refining. 
• Display curiosity by independently initiating and embracing opportunities to learn. 
• Assess the context in which one exists or operates, with attention to how actions impact others. 
• Demonstrate resiliency and the capacity to adapt one’s approach in response to undesirable outcomes. 

Social Complexity

Cultivate and maintain an intentional understanding of the complex social and historical contexts that shape community, organizational, and individual experiences.

• Solicit and use feedback from multiple perspectives to make decisions that have the widest possible benefit to those impacted. 
• Actively contribute to practices that influence positive individual, organizational, and/or institutional improvement and effectiveness. 
• Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups and that lead to beneficial interpersonal and community outcomes. 
• Keep an open mind to diverse ideas and different ways of thinking. 
• Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to diverse environments and understanding one’s own situational context. 
• Create systems or solutions that maximize individual and group potential, involvement, and decision-making power. 

Technological Literacy

Cultivate and maintain critical knowledge of information, media, communication, and instrumentation technologies to effectively and ethically communicate messages, complete tasks, and solve problems.

• Leverage relevant technologies, including digital tools, to make decisions, complete tasks, improve efficiency, enhance creativity, collaborate, and/or solve problems. 
• Effectively assess the quality and credibility of digital information. 
• Apply ethical thinking to decisions about technology and to engagement with digital tools and in digital spaces.  
• Identify and solve technological problems. 
• Navigate technological change and be open to learning new technologies. 
• Use artificial intelligence responsibly, critically, and creatively in real-world contexts.
• If a faculty member answers that their course advances this indicator, the survey logic will display… 

AI Literacy

Use AI responsibly, critically, and creatively in real-world contexts.

• Develop a functional understanding of how AI works, including what information it trains on, its rhetorical frameworks, and the availability of common AI tools and their applications. 
• Accurately interpret AI outputs, including reliability, identify biases, and clearly communicate findings. 
• Strategically integrate AI tools into collaborative projects, recognizing the respective strengths of human judgment and machine intelligence. 
• Critically evaluate ethical concerns pertaining to AI, including infrastructures or applications that threaten human or environmental flourishing. 
• Apply AI tools to ideate in ways that enhance rather than replace the human capacity to solve problems and to create.