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
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
Fall, 2013 and
Ongoing
Assoc. VP Acad. Affairs, Academic Assessment
Committee
Fall, 2013 and
Ongoing
Deans' Council, VP
SDE
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
II.2.5.2
Focus on Student Advising
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
• 5 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)
Study Abroads 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)
Videoconferencing classroom in Bridgeman
Global Understanding non-credit certificate for students
English immersion summer camp
CIEE summer seminars and faculty/staff abroad
• Site coordinators for semester abroad locations
Study Abroads Still Available
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Euro Spring
Sino Summer
Argentina
Etc…all coordinated with IPC and including International
Studies Committee
Faculty Opportunity for International
Teaching/Research Abroad
• One BSU faculty per semester.
• Teach short courses/seminars <= 4 hours per week and
conduct research at Weifang University, Shandong Province.
• Sponsored faculty member works with local professors to
conduct research and teach short courses/seminars.
• 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.
• Local travel tours provided.
Contact: Sanjeev Phukan ([email protected]) or Martin
Tadlock ([email protected])
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
Challenges: HLC
• HLC assessment follow through in some programs
• Up to date:
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Biology
Mathematics
Sociology
Psychology
Most of PE, Health, and Sport
Business
Accounting
Nursing
Social Work
Education
• Other programs…Friday August 23 at 9:30 a.m.
• Last year in HLC Academy on Student Learning
• Future considerations
Challenges: Liberal Education Core
• Liberal Education core the is distinctively BSU,
interdisciplinary and owned by a core group of faculty
Challenges: Faculty/Staff Roles
• 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
• Patrick will lead tem to address program assessment
plan currency and follow through
• Liberal Education Committee: Recommend to me by
January 2014 a new liberal education core that is
distinctively BSU, interdisciplinary, and owned by a core
group of faculty
• Informal dialogue sessions on the role of faculty and on
what BSU should be in the information/technological age
• Invite family/partners to all events possible
• Move to implement the MAP’s call for a Center for
Teaching, Learning and Scholarship
• Continue to work on communication, transparency, and
visibility