Transcript Academic Forum - Bemidji State University

Academic Affairs
Start Up and
Update
August 20, 2013
Focus Areas of Master Academic Plan
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Financial sustainability
Internationally competitive
Distinctively BSU
Organizational alignment
Master Academic Plan & Work Plan:
Copies on AA website
II.2.3.5
Student Career Placement
Fall, 2013
Career Services
Fall, 2013
Provost, VP IEL, Director of International Relations
Fall, 2013
Deans' Council, Provost
Fall, 2013
President's taskforce
II.3.1.1c
Global Learning Classroom(s)
II.4.8
Administrator Evaluation Process
II.4.11
Move beyond NTC/BSU alignment
II.2.5.1
Assessment of Student Learning
Fall, 2013 and Ongoing Assoc. VP Acad. Affairs, Academic Assessment Committee
II.2.5.2
Focus on Student Advising
Fall, 2013 and Ongoing Deans' Council, VP SDE
Financially Sustainable
• Distance programs on 80/20 revenue sharing model
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Nursing at Anoka Ramsey and Century Colleges
Mass Comm…online marketing communications
Social Work…blended online format
MS Special Education
MBA starting fall 2014
MS Special Education online…in review
• RCM budget planning exploration for CBTC and Nursing
• 6 new faculty lines for growth
• Program indicator guidelines
Distinctively BSU
• Residential experience is core and must be exceptional
• Residential Life and our partnership with Student Development
• Housing changes for students
• Required on campus stay for freshmen
• Construction
• Visibility on campus and strengthening campus community
• Student/faculty research
• Integration with the Bemidji Community: Steward of Place
Distinctively BSU
• High quality distance programming: Current degree
completion programs
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Accounting
Business Administration
Criminal Justice
Applied Engineering
Technology Management
Marketing/Communications
MS Education
MS Special Education
Distinctively BSU
• Current blended format or face to face and online programs:
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Nursing RN-BSN (Anoka Ramsey, Century, Lake Superior)
DLiTE program in Elementary Education
FastTrack for Secondary Education
Social Work
Distinctively BSU
• New faculty grant $75K
• Course redesign grant $96K
• Center for Community Partnerships
• Moving into the city and vice versa
• Tally Gallery
• BCT and Bangsberg
Internationally Competitive
• 17 international partners for exchanges and semester abroad
opportunities for students (updates coming)
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Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Germany
England
Iceland
Canada
South Korea
Malaysia
China (6)
• Site coordinators needed
Internationally Competitive: Study
Abroad Still Available
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Euro Spring
Sino Summer
Argentina
Etc…all coordinated with IPC and including International
Studies Committee
Internationally Competitive
• Two visiting scholars at BSU
• Sergei Kukharenko from Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical
University, Russia
• Ping Wan from Liaoning University, China
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WFU student ambassadors (6) coming this week
Videoconferencing classroom in Bridgeman ready
Global Understanding non-credit certificate for students ready
Intensive English immersion summer camp begun and will
expand
• CIEE summer seminars and faculty/staff abroad
Internationally Competitive: Faculty Opportunity
for International Teaching/Research Abroad
• One BSU faculty per semester at Weifang U.
• Teach short courses/seminars <= 4 hours per week and
conduct research .
• WFU will identify local Chinese faculty members to assist BSU
professors on research topics relevant to WFU and BSU.
• Round trip airfare, local accommodations, and office space
provided.
• Stipend of $1000 per month provided.
Contact: Sanjeev Phukan ([email protected]) or
Martin Tadlock ([email protected])
Internationally Competitive: 1-2-1
Programs
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AASCU/CEAIE consortium
3 Universities in S. China
Looking for programs here to pilot
Dual degree
Virgil Bakken
International Experiences Day
• 30 minute presentations, individual or group, from students,
faculty, and staff who have participated in study
abroad/semester abroad programs,
internships/working/teaching abroad opportunities,
humanitarian and/or volunteer international experiences, or
any other international experience directly related to BSU or
at any of our partner colleges.
• Contact: Jamie Bergerson by emailing her at:
[email protected] Jamie will organize the
agenda/program. We will send you drafts of the program as it
evolves, and you will be contacted by Jamie to confirm the
time and place for your presentation.
Organizational and Space
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Sanford
Memorial
Decker
Bensen
Student residential halls
Long range for Hagg-Sauer
Challenge: HLC Assessment
• HLC assessment follow through in some programs
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Biology
Mathematics
Sociology
Psychology
Sports Management
Business
Accounting
Nursing
Social Work
Education
• Other programs…Friday August 23 at 9:30 a.m.
• May be last year in HLC Academy on Student Learning
• Future considerations and link to resources
Challenge: Liberal Education Core
• Liberal Education core the is distinctively BSU, interdisciplinary
and owned by a core group of faculty
Challenge: Faculty/Staff Roles and
Building Community
• Technology and competing demands
• On campus or off campus focus of faculty/staff?
• Online or residential life for students when 21% are not on
campus?
• Distance learners who never come to BSU?
• Engagement of faculty/staff in local community when teaching
online?
• Mission of the university as a regional steward when 21% of
students are not in Bemidji?
• Building community when our faculty profile is:
• 98 faculty using D2L to enhance courses
• 22 more faculty using D2L to teach online
• Faculty leadership
Invitation to Address Challenges
1. Address program assessment plan currency
and follow through in departments
2. Liberal Education Committee: Recommend to
Academic Affairs by January 2014 a new liberal
education core that is distinctively BSU,
interdisciplinary, and owned by a core group of
faculty
3. Attend dialogue sessions on the role of faculty
and on what BSU should be in the
information/technological age
4. Invite family/partners to all events possible and
take care of our people