Transcript Draft of Recommendations UC Task Force Indiana State University October 2012 Table of Contents             UC Task Force Membership (slide 3) UC Task Force Charge (slide.

Draft of Recommendations
UC Task Force
Indiana State University
October 2012
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Table of Contents
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UC Task Force Membership (slide 3)
UC Task Force Charge (slide 4)
Vision Statement (slide 5)
The UC’s Purpose (slide 6)
UC Direct Reports (slide 7)
Responsibilities of the UC (slides 8-11)
The Role of the UC Dean (slide 12)
The Foundational Studies Council’s Authority and
Responsibilities (slides 13-14)
Who is admitted into the UC (slide 15)
UC Advisors (slides 16-18)
Estimated Budget (slide 19)
Next Steps (slide 20)
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UC Task Force Membership
Linda S. Maule, Dean UC, Chairperson—UC Task Force
Nancy Cobb-Lippens, Chairperson, CAS
John Murray, Academic Dean, CAS
Christopher Olsen, Chairperson, CAS—Faculty Senate Rep.
Cindy Crowder, Chairperson, COT
Robert English, Associate Dean, COT
Kevin Bolinger, Faculty Member, BCOE—Faculty Senate Rep.
Judy Sheese, Education Student Services Coord., BCOE
Don Rogers, Faculty Member, NHHS
Tom Sawyer, Faculty Member, NHHS—Faculty Senate Officer
Susan Johnson, Student Services Director, SCOB
Art Sherwood, Faculty Member, SCOB
Chris Fischer, Chairperson, Foundational Studies Council, Faculty Senate Rep.
David Wright, Director, Student Academic Services Center
Joshua Powers, Associate Vice President, Student Success
Greg Bierly, Director, University Honors Program
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UC Task Force Charge from the Provost and the Faculty
Senate Executive Committee (Summer 2012)
 The University College will be responsible for working in partnership
with our existing colleges, enrollment management, and others to
improve the success of our first-year students.
 ISU’s Board of Trustees has approved the establishment of the
University College and agreed that a Task Force would study and make
recommendations on a number of operational issues.
 The Task Force is charged to study the issues and make
recommendations to the Senate by no later than November 1, 2012. To
allow for the Senate and campus to study the Task Force
recommendations thoroughly, an earlier report would be welcomed.
 The Senate is charged to present recommendations to President
Bradley and Provost Maynard by no later than December 1, 2012.
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Vision Statement:
The University College (UC) will improve
student success by providing a high-quality,
responsive network of academic assistance to
first-year students by integrating and
collaborating with the efforts of academic
entities and programs with all other campus
divisions and resources, and by promoting
campus dialogue and analysis of student success
issues.
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The UC’s Purpose
The purpose of the UC is to help students to succeed by:
 Instilling in first-year students a sense of personal responsibility for their academic
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success
Promoting professional excellence and accountability on the part of staff, faculty,
and administrators
Improving the persistence of first time, first semester, freshmen from Fall #1 to Fall
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Providing first-year students with access to high quality and transitional academic
advising
Increasing the number of first-year students maintaining academic good standing
Decreasing the number of first-year students who drop a course or courses in their
first year or withdraw from the university in their first year
Partnering with the Foundational Studies Council, as well as Academic Colleges, to
provide high quality instruction of first-year students, centered on student learning,
developmental scaffolding, and the challenge and rigor appropriate for the first year
of college
Assisting students to make well-informed choices about their majors, based on
sound academic preparation that enhances commitment to and success in their field
of study
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UC Direct Reports: Years 1 and 2
Provost and Vice
President of Academic
Affairs
Dean of University
College
Coordinator Summer
Bridging Programs
Coordinator UC
Advising (new)
13 UC Advisors (4 new,
9 reassigned)
Coordinator Academic
Components of
Residence Life
Map Works, Academic
Peer Advocates, Living
Learning Communities
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Responsibilities of the UC: Years 1 and 2
(Fall 2013- Spring 2015)
 Pre-Enrollment Programs
 Academic Components of New Student Orientation
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Coordinate Academic Presentations (main presentation and Academic College
presentations)
Coordinate Academic Advising (both UC advisors and faculty/professional advisors
assigned to the Academic Colleges)
 Enrollment Preparation Programs
 Summer Bridging Programs
 Academic Components of Fall Welcome
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Connecting students to their academic units and/or their academic advisor
Blackboard and clicker training and software training
Assessment activities for entering students
 Academic Components of Residence Life
 Map Works
 Residence Hall-Academic Peer Advocates (APA)
 Academic Programming for “Living Learning” Communities
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Responsibilities cont.
 Academic Advising
 The Academic Advising Center will be responsible for all
first-year students:
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First-year students admitted directly into a major will be assigned both
to a UC advisor and an academic advisor in that major.
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UC advisors will be the advisor of record
All students will be assigned to a UC advisor who is cross-trained, but
who also is an expert in a specific, albeit broad, academic area.
Sycamore Challenge (a.k.a. AOP) and Exploratory Studies students
Students who have earned fewer than 32 credits and are on academic
probation
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Responsibilities cont.
 Post Enrollment Academic Development Programs
 Fall Read
 Foundational Studies (Administration)
 Freshman Transition courses, including UNIV 101
 Learning Communities
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Linked courses
Living learning communities (residence hall) linked to FS or major courses
 Programming: Best Practices for Teaching First-Year Students
 Typical
 Honors
 Millennial Students
 International Students
 Student Sub-Populations with Achievement Gaps
 First generation
 Pell grant recipients
 Historically disadvantaged ethnic and racial minorities
 Academically unprepared or underprepared
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Responsibilities Cont.
UC
Pre Enrollment
Programs
Enrollment
Preparation Programs
Academic
Components of
Residence
Academic Advising
Life
Post Enrollment
Activities
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The Role of the UC Dean
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The UC Dean will:
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Supervise the coordinators of the Bridging Programs, the Academic Advising Center, and the academic
components of residence life
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Administer the Foundational Studies program
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Assist faculty in developing FS courses
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Serve as an ex-officio, non-voting member of the Foundational Studies Council
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Facilitate the assessment of FS category learning objectives and FS program outcomes
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Work in partnership with the Foundational Studies Council, as well as Academic Deans, Chairpersons,
Directors, and Instructors to ensure the integrity of Foundational Studies courses
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Work in cooperation with the Academic Deans, Chairpersons, Directors, as well as other key units (e.g.,
the Office of Registration and Records) to
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Schedule Foundational Studies courses strategically
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Select instructors who will teach key (100 and 200 level) Foundational Studies courses
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The Foundational Studies Council’s authority and
responsibilities as a result of its placement in the UC
 The Foundational Studies Council will continue to:
 Develop guidelines for the syllabi of all Foundational Studies courses, including those
Foundational Studies courses taken primarily by first-year students (100 and 200 level
courses)
 Develop and enforce the policies for the Foundational Studies curriculum, including those
policies which relate to Foundational Studies courses taken primarily by first-year students
(100 and 200 level courses)
 Evaluate whether the category learning objectives and program outcomes are being met, as
well as the policies for the Foundational Studies curriculum, including those policies
which relate to Foundational Studies courses taken primarily by first-year students (100
and 200 level courses)
 Determine the composition of all Foundational Studies arrays, including the removal of
courses from those arrays as a result of course evaluation data, category learning objective
and program assessment data, and annual review of whether departments are in
compliance with Foundation Studies curricular policies and syllabi guidelines, including
those which relate to Foundational Studies courses taken primarily by first-year students
(100 and 200 level courses)
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The Foundational Studies Council’s authority and
responsibilities as a result of its placement in the UC
The Foundational Studies Council will:
 Develop the learning objectives for a required freshman transition
course selected from the Foundational Studies array (100 or 200
level courses), which will focus on first-year transition issues, as
well as developing and honing reading comprehension skills
 Facilitate the participation of departments offering 100-200 level FS
courses, with large enrollments, in course redesign or course
transformation
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Who is admitted into the UC?
 All first-time freshmen will be admitted into the UC.
 Students who are not eligible to enter directly in their major
will be admitted into the UC.
 Students who are eligible to enter directly into their major will
be dually admitted in the UC and their Academic College.
 Students with fewer than 32.0 credits on academic probation
will remain in the UC until they are in good academic
standing.
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The UC Dean will decide, following established university policies, whether
first-year students who have been academically dismissed may be re-instated.
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UC Advisors
 All entering first-year students will be assigned to a UC
advisor (approximately 1 UC advisor per 200 students)
 First-year students who are directly admitted into their major will be
assigned both a UC advisor and an academic advisor in their major.
Academic units will continue to work closely with their majors and to
develop a strong relationship with them.
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The UC advisor is the advisor of record for:
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Academic pin numbers
Schedule changes, and
On all forms requiring an advisor’s signature
 All other first-year students will be assigned to a UC advisor (e. g.,
underprepared students (AOP), undecided students, and students who
are designated as pre-majors, such as pre-education, pre-law, prebusiness, or pre-nursing).
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UC Advisors cont.
 In Spring 2013, the UC Dean will:
 Hire a UC Advising Coordinator (who also will advise first-
year students)
 Hire three-to-four UC advisors
 Work with the Academic Colleges to reassign three existing
professional advisor positions to the University College
 Re-assign six professional advisor positions, from the Student
Academic Service Center, to the UC College
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UC Advisors cont.
 UC advisors will be:
 Cross-trained, but they also will serve as experts in a specific, albeit broad, academic
area
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For example, at least one new advisor, though cross trained, will have significant arts
background in order to be able to understand and negotiate unique curricular requirements
for arts majors.
 Afforded annual opportunities for professional development and to learn how to practice
high quality developmental advising
 Expected to work closely with major advisors to ensure first-year students a seamless
transition from the University College to the Academic Colleges and departments
 Assessed each semester by their students, the UC Advising Coordinator, UC Dean, and the
academic units in the Academic Colleges with which they are affiliated
 Replaced if they do not meet the expectations of the UC Advising Coordinator, the UC
Dean, and the academic units with which they work most closely
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Estimated Budget
 The annual base-budget for the University College is
estimated to be at approximately $250,000.oo.
 Salary and benefits for a new UC Advising Coordinator
and three-to-four new UC advisors
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To offset this cost, the university may wish to take under
consideration the assessment of an academic advising fee (See
the Texas system)
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Next Steps
 October 1-October 8: Preliminary feedback on
recommendations sought
 October 10: Final recommendations of the UC Task Force
sent to the Provost
 October 16: Provost delivers recommendations and his
response to the recommendations to the Faculty Senate
Executive Committee
 October 17 and beyond: The Faculty Senate Executive
Committee and the UC Task Force hold open forums. The
Executive Committee forwards both reports to the
appropriate Faculty Senate governing bodies (e.g., CAAC)
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