Transcript Fresno State’s Red Balloon Initiative AASCU’s Transforming

Re-Imagining How to Fund the Future
in the California State University
System
Harold Hellenbrand,
Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs & Interim President
California State University, Northridge
Leveraging AASCU’s Red Balloon Initiative to Enhance
Campus Collaboration and Innovation in the Face of
Budget Cuts: Engaging Faculty and the Campus to
Envision and Implement Change
William Covino
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State University, Fresno
Ellen Junn
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, San Jose State University
Leveraging AASCU’s Red Balloon Initiative to
Enhance Campus Collaboration and
Innovation in the Face of Budget Cuts:
Engaging Faculty and the Campus to
Envision and Implement Change
William Covino
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State University, Fresno
Ellen Junn
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, San Jose State University
2012 Academic Affairs Winter Meeting
San Antonio, TX, February 9-11, 2012
CSU, Fresno
Demographics
 CSU part of 23-campus system (Fresno est. 1911)
 21,981 students: Fall 2011 (19,109=ug; 2,290=g; 582=postbac)
 Diversity: 36.7%=Hispanic; 30.6%=White; 14.7%=Asian; 4.6%=
African American; 0.5%=American Indian; 10%=other;
3%=International
 64 undergraduate degrees,44 Master’s, and 4 doctorates (2
Ed.D’s, DNP, DPT) for a total of 112 degrees.
 First generation college:: 68%
 1,144 faculty, Fall 2011 (556 T/TT; 588 lecturers)
AASCU Red Balloon New Models for:
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Institutional Organization and Design (Academic Affairs Student Affairs collaboration, new departmental, college
structures)
Enrollment Management (academic advising, tracking, early
warning, predictive modeling)
Faculty Workload (different kinds of faculty work, the use of parttime faculty)
Curriculum (degrees limited to 120 units, interdisciplinary
programs, new designs for general education)
Course Design (reduced seat time, student-centered learning,
undergraduate research, project-based learning)
Instructional Design (new forms of student engagement, use of
technology in teaching, distance education)
Two Stage Process: 1st Focus=Tech
AASCU-EDUCAUSE-UCF, July 2010: Presidential Teams Summit
“Designing 21st Learning Environments”
• Call for Presidential 5-6 member teams that included president,
provost, campus technology mangers and staff, academic
technology administrators, faculty technology experts.
• Intensive, 2-day retreat for each campus to develop their own
academic technology plan.
• In preparation, the SATO hosted a cross-campus June retreat
with 30 faculty, staff, administrators to brainstorm technology
ideas. Of the 6 topic areas, the group focused on brainstorming
technology goals and solutions for: (1) course design; (2)
instructional design.
Fresno State Acad Tech Initiatives
1. GOAL: Increase online certificates/degrees offered
through Continuing and Global Education:
RESULT: 6 new online (2nd EdD, MA Reading, DNP,
PSM Water Resource Management, online MBA, GSI
certificate)
Case management approach: flow charts, timelines, process,
contacts, forms, TILT point person; coordinated team approach
2. GOAL: Syllabus Redesign:
RESULT: 78 faculty (Fall 2010=56 faculty; Spring
2011=22 faculty)
Training to implement universal design, link LO & assessments,
create rubrics, apply cognitive science, improve student studying
Fresno State Tech Initiatives
3. GOAL: Curricular Innovation, based on
NCAT Course Redesign
RESULT: 4 depts, BIOL 10=APLU-Gates-OLI
• Goal is to increase student learning, reduce cost and
enhance course quality using technology and innovative
pedagogy.
• Provost/SATOcollege deansdept approach to invite,
train, assess and follow up.
• Departments provided with $5,000.
• BIOL 10 = APLU-Carnegie Mellon OLI Grant Phase 2
Fresno State Tech Initiatives
4. GOAL: Strengthen and refine Improving Student Writing
Initiative using Criterion (from ETS)
RESULT: Over 152 faculty and over 6,000 students (Spring
2010=103 faculty; Fall 2010=52 faculty)
Added Pearson’s MyWritingLab & WriteClick to improve student
writing.
5. GOAL: TWISTERS Conference (Teaching With Innovative Stars
To Engage & Reach Students): incorporate one new
technology innovation in a course
RESULT: 97 faculty attended, Spring 2011
Workshop topics:
• Digital media and constructing learning objects (e.g., MERLOT)
• Social media (blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter)
• Collaboration (Googlewave, Googledocs)
• Streaming media (e.g., podcasts, lecture capture, 3D, 2nd Life)
• iClickers and new cell phone app response systems
• e-conferencing (Eluminate, Skype)
• eportfolios
Fresno State Tech Initiatives
6. GOAL: Enhance Student Information Literacy
RESULT: 11 departments (Spring 2010=7 dept; Fall 2011=4
dept).
• Invite departments to work with librarian faculty in developing two
information literacy assignments within an entry-level and capstonelevel course within a major.
• Department teams (along with chair) attend a day-long retreat
(keynote speaker from CSU Chancellor’s Office) and work with their
library liaison through the semester.
7. GOAL: Create Tech Faculty Learning Communities (FLC):
RESULT: 6 FLC’s (lecture capture, eportfolio, open source
materials, UDL--Universal Design & Learning, Web 2.0,
Pearson MyWritingLab & WriteClick)
Stage 2:
Campus Red Balloon Launch
A Collaborative,
Campus-wide Process
How to?
• Capture interest and engage everyone-faculty, staff, administrators, students
• Foster creative, transformative ideas
• Produce sustained engagement and positive
change
Campus Red Balloon Launch
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Provost’s Aug Academic Affairs Leadership Team
Retreat focused on the Red Balloon (RB) Initiative.
Sought the active involvement of Senate.
Invited Senate Exec to brainstorming dinner in August
2010 to plan campus Red Balloon Launch event.
Held 15 meetings of RB Steering Committee.
Presented RB to Student Affairs Leadership Team.
Hosted RB Event on Oct 29, 2010 with George
Mehaffy as the keynote speaker, along with small
breakout groups and reports.
Over 250 faculty, staff, administrators and students
participated in the October RB Launch.
Next Steps to
Support Continued Dialogue
• Created RB website:
http://www.csufresno.edu/academics/redballoon/index.shtml
• Consolidated 6 topic areas to 4 and invited people to
register online for 1 of the 4 RB Task Forces:
(1) Institutional Organization and Infrastructure;
(2) Curriculum, Course & Instructional Redesign;
(3) Faculty Workload;
(4) Enrollment Management.
• Each RB Task Force faculty leader or co-leaders
scheduled 4-5 Task Force meetings for Spring 2011
and facilitated dialogue.
Next Steps to
Support Continued Dialogue
• The RB Steering Committee created and provided
Task Force Leaders with a recommendations matrix.
• Each Task Force was charged to identify specific
challenges or roadblocks, then generate possible
solutions or recommendations for change.
• For each recommendation, Task Forces had to
specify: (1) solution or action; (2) responsible office(s);
(3) timeline; (4) estimated costs.
• All Task Forces also were asked to recommend 1-2
short-term achievable solutions.
OUTCOMES?
• 89 faculty, staff and administrators registered to become members
of one of the 4 RB Task Forces.
• Each of the 4 RB Task Forces met a minimum of 4 times over the
Spring 2011 semester, and completed their RB Recommendations
matrix by the end of the semester.
• The final RB Report proposed a total of 40 recommendations.
The Provost sought feedback on all recommendations from the
Provost Leadership Team.
• The RB Recommendations Report went to the President’s
Cabinet, and summarize their recommendations at the Cabinet’s
June 2011 retreat.
• The Cabinet and Provost’s Leadership Team reviewed,
discussed and assessed recommendations to determine the status
of each recommendation.
• The Final RB Task Force Recommendations with Cabinet status
updates can be found at:
http://www.csufresno.edu/academics/documents/redballoon-final-recc-aug-2011.pdf
Recommendations Results
Of the 40 RB recommendations,
• 6 recommendations are already in existence;
• 4 recommendations were not approved;
• 4 recommendations were passed on;
• Remaining recommendations appear to be solvent
In Fall 2011, a final campus-wide event was hosted
to unveil the Final RB Report Recommendations.
See RB Recommendations handout.
Caveats, Advice & Questions
• RB participants were appreciative of considering
positive change in the face of difficult budget cuts.
• Faculty/staff consultation and engagement is important.
• Task Force Leaders should be conscientious and skilled.
• Primary participation from AA and SA, some Adm/Fin.
• Cross unit/division interaction was very positive.
• Surprisingly, few recommendations incorporated
technology or radically innovative solutions—maybe 2nd
round?
-------------------• NEXT STEPS? Innovative initiatives/ideas at Fresno
State and San Jose State. . .
Bill Covino
• [email protected]
• w: 559-278-8812
Ellen Junn
• [email protected]
• w: 408-924-2400