Transcript A Look at All That’s New Student Affairs Division Meeting Fall 2012 December 5, 2012

A Look at All That’s New
Student Affairs Division Meeting
Fall 2012
December 5, 2012
Overview
• Introductions
• Division Reorganization
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Student Engagement & Success Unit (underway)
Athletics (underway)
SASEEP, SSWD (forthcoming)
• Budget Update
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Proposition 30
• Graduation Initiative Update
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Key system-wide policy changes
Key campus-specific proposals
New Faces
A big welcome to the
new managers and
staff . . . say hello, be
nice, and remind
them how happy we
are to have them as
part of our great
division.
Introductions
Managers who have joined us since our last division meeting:
• Dr. Beth Lesen, AVP, Student Engagement & Success
• Dr. Sara Henry, Director, Student Organizations &
Leadership
• Ms. Haley Myers, Director, Parents & Families Program
• Ms. Ardith Tregenza, Director, Student Conduct (Interim)
• Mr. Charles Cole, Senior Associate Director, Admissions &
Outreach
• Ms. Kristine Trigales, Senior Associate Registrar
Dr. Beth Lesen
AVP, Student Engagement & Success
Dr. Sara Henry
Director, Student Organizations & Leadership
Ms. Haley Myers
Director, Parents & Families Program
Ms. Ardith Tregenza
Director, Student Conduct (Interim)
Mr. Charles Cole
Senior Associate Director, Admissions & Outreach
Ms. Kristine Trigales
Senior Associate Registrar
Additionally, please welcome Laura McBride, Executive
Assistant to the VPSA. She joined the VPSA Office staff in
September.
A Time of Change
We’re currently in a time of change both at the
division level and at the University level.
The next part of this presentation discusses
some changes that have happened, some that
are in progress, and some yet to come.
The changes in higher education in general, at
the University, and in the Division will likely not
stop here.
A Time of Change (cont.)
We’d like to thank all of you for rising to the
occasion of the changes that have come your
way thus far—we know that change is not
always easy—and to ask you to keep an open
mind for the future.
A New “Side” of the Division
Along with new
people, the Division
has a new unit or
“side” called
Student
Engagement &
Success.
The Unit Formerly Known as
Campus Life
Before the reorganization, the Campus Life “side” of
Student Affairs formerly contained the following four
departments and two program centers which reported
to the AVP of Campus Life (Edward Jones):
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Housing & Residential Life
Office of Student Conduct
Student Organizations & Leadership (SO&L)
Multi-Cultural Center
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PRIDE Center (program center)
Women’s Resource Center (program center)
The Emerging New Unit—
Student Engagement & Success
As Student Affairs was conducting its nationwide
search for a second AVP, division leaders were
contemplating a restructuring and rebalancing of
the Division.
After much discussion, a new side or structure
emerged and it was named Student
Engagement & Success. This new unit includes
departments that were not formerly part of the
Campus Life side.
Student Engagement & Success (SES)
As its name and structure suggest, the new
Student Engagement & Success unit explicitly
focuses on the types of programs and services
that help students:
1. get involved in/engaged with campus life;
2. make academically “wise” decisions; and
3. access support services that can help them
make timely progress to degree.
Student Engagement & Success (cont.)
As of today, SES departments and program
centers include:
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Academic Advising Center
Career Center
Housing & Residential Life
Multi-Cultural Center
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Women’s Resource Center (program center)
PRIDE Center (program center)
• Student Conduct Office
• Student Organizations & Leadership (SO&L)
“New” Departments to Student Affairs
Several departments have
joined or soon will be
joining our division.
A New Move—Athletics
As of Fall 2012, the President moved the
supervision of the Athletics Department from
his office to the Vice President for Student
Affairs.
The next several slides
introduce a few of the
Athletics Department leaders
who are joining us in Student
Affairs and explain the move.
Dr. Terry Wanless
Director of Athletics
Mr. Bill Macriss
Deputy Athletics Director
Ms. Lois Mattice
Associate Athletics Director
Dr. Steve Perez
Faculty Athletics Representative
A New Move—Athletics (cont.)
This move will help ensure that:
• The new strategic plan’s implementation will be
coordinated and directly monitored at the Vice
Presidential level.
• Departmental controls and procedures are in
line with those of other very large program
centers.
• Athletic activities will be supported by an entire
division dedicated to similar types of activities
and programs (those that serve and engage
students).
Other New (Forthcoming) Moves—
SASEEP and SSWD
Though the exact date of the move has not yet
been finalized, student support programs such as
those in SASEEP (Student Academic Success
and Educational Equity) and SSWD (Services to
Students with Disabilities) will soon move from
the Provost’s portfolio to the VPSA’s purview.
SA, SASEEP, and SSWD leaders will soon be
reaching out to communicate with staff in relevant
areas.
Why do these reorganizations
make good sense?
With these moves, it is increasingly the case that
more and more “like” programs are now part of
the same division.
• SA will soon include almost all of the units that
offer co-curricular programs.
• SA will soon also include most of the units that
offer out-of-classroom academic student
support programs & services.
A New Proposition
and Its Impact on the Budget
With the passage of Proposition 30 earlier this
month, the CSU avoided the $250M “trigger”
cut that would have taken effect if the
Proposition did not pass.
This passage means that the CSU will roll
back student tuition fees to 2011-2012 levels.
Thus, every Sac State student’s tuition is in
the process of being reviewed and/or adjusted.
Prop. 30 Tuition Rollback
The specific dollar amount of tuition
adjustments will vary by student based on the
tuition he or she paid and how he or she paid it
(e.g., through various forms of financial aid or
without using financial aid).
Via a mandate from the Chancellor’s Office,
adjustment processing must be completed by
December 21st. We are on track to meet or
beat that deadline.
Prop. 30 Tuition Rollback (cont.)
I personally wish to extend a large “thank you”
to the departments involved in this complex
tuition adjustment process undertaken in a
very short timeframe. In particular:
• Student Financial Services
• Financial Aid & Scholarships Office
• Student Services Counter
Prop. 30 Tuition Rollback (cont.)
For more information on the Prop. 30 tuition
rollback, visit:
http://www.csus.edu/student/PROP30update/i
ndex.html
This site is linked from the University
homepage as well as the Student Affairs
homepage.
Budget Update: 2012-2013 Cuts
Despite Prop. 30’s passage, Student Affairs
still sustained an 8.8% ($780K) cut for 20122013.
Athletics received a 10% general fund
reduction of $259K.
We are mitigating the Student Affairs cut
largely by eliminating positions (9 positions
through attrition) and using the central reserve.
Budget Update (cont.)
In Student Affairs, a structural deficit of ~$750K
remains. How we address that will depend on
what (if any) “restoration” we receive to baseline
funds, and we won’t know that until the “dust
settles” around the Prop 30 passage.
A New Approach to the Graduation
Initiative—A Focus on Policies
Many important policy changes are currently in
process or under consideration in the CSU and at
Sacramento State.
There are several policy changes and proposals
unfolding at this moment:
• SB 1440
• 120 unit maximum for degree programs
(proposed)
• Campus-level General Education and
Graduation Requirement Reform
SB 1440—Associate Degrees for Transfer
With the passage of SB 1440 (Sep 2010) the
California Community College System and the
CSU may collaborate to create 60 unit
Associate of Arts/Science (AA/AS) degree
transfer programs.
SB 1440 aims to streamline the transferability
of select CA Community College (CACC)
degrees to specific 4-year degrees at the
CSU.
A New Unit Cap for Majors—120 units
As of November 19, 2012, the CSU Board of
Trustees proposed revisions to Title 5 that
establish a 120 unit cap for CSU Bachelor’s
degree programs (both Arts and Science)
beginning the 2014-2015 academic year.
(Currently, the 120 units mentioned in Title 5 are
the minimum number of units for a major; the
change would make 120 units the maximum.)
Reducing Required Major Units to 120
The CO recommends departments consider
reducing:
• Number of major core units
• Number of required major elective units
• Number of prerequisite units
• Number of co-requisite units
• Number of units in concentration “option”
• Units associated with a course or courses
Reducing Units to 120 (cont.)
Additionally, the CO recommends departments or
campuses consider:
• Eliminating required minors
• Double-counting American Institutions with major
course requirements
• Double-counting American Institutions with general
education requirements
• Double-counting GE with campus-specific
requirements (satisfying GE requirements through
other courses)
• Reducing the number of campus-specific
graduation requirements
120 Unit Cap for Majors (cont.)
The proposed 120 unit changes to Title 5
come back before the CSU Board of Trustees
in January 2013.
Many of the recommended policy revisions the
CO asked departments to investigate are
already under discussion at Sacramento State.
120 Unit Cap for Majors (cont.)
Per the proposal under discussion, the
Chancellor’s Office would be able to grant
exceptions to the 120 unit cap on a programby-program basis (individual programs must
apply for exceptions on their own).
New GE/GR Reform at Campus Level
As of Fall 2012, the General Education/
Graduation Requirements (GE/GR) Policy
Committee submitted recommendations to
Faculty Senate to revise Sacramento State
GE/Graduation Requirements.
Proposed Campus GE Reform
• Broadly, the proposed GE changes increase the
flexibility students have for meeting GE
requirements, and in some cases, reduce unit
requirements in certain areas.
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This includes the flexibility in several cases for
students to “double-count” units for more than
one GE/GR requirement and/or the major.
Faculty Senate on Thursday, Nov. 29 voted to
forward a policy that removes the 9 unit limit for
courses that double-count, and allows unlimited
ability to double-count.
Proposed Campus GE Reform (cont.)
The GE/GR Policy Committee recommended
two significant changes to Sac State’s
graduation requirements:
• Elimination of the Second Semester
Composition Graduation Requirement
• Elimination of the Foreign Language
Graduation Requirement
These recommendations are currently under
discussion in Faculty Senate.
New Restrictions on Minors/Second
Majors
Currently, it is up to individual campuses
whether to have policies restricting minors or
second majors toward encouraging timely
graduation.
A Faculty Senate workgroup (the Workgroup
on Majors [WOM]) is currently discussing
several aspects of the Major/Minor question:
New Restrictions on Minors/Second
Majors
• How many total units are permitted for any
major/minor combination?
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E.g., two majors, two majors and a minor, one major
and one minor, etc.
• What is the unit limit for which a student can
change major, add a major, or add a minor?
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E.g., students may not be allowed to change
majors, add a major, or add a minor after x number
of units without a special petition process
New Restrictions on Minors/Second
Majors (cont.)
Also under discussion:
• What constitutes a pre-major and how will
pre-majors be handled in the future?
GE/GR Reform (cont.)
For more detailed information about some of
these proposed changes, see the GE/GR
Policy Committee Working Document at:
http://www.csus.edu/acse/SenateInfo/Working%20Documents/12-13-GERecIII.pdf
Proposed New Fees—Postponed
Indefinitely
Finally, some of you may have heard of
graduation incentive fees proposed at the CSU
system-wide level:
• A $372 per-unit charge for every unit taken
over 160
• A $91 charge for repeating a class
• A $182 per-unit charge for every registered
unit over 18 each semester
New (Proposed) Fees
On Tuesday, Nov. 13, the CSU Board of
Trustees (BoT) was scheduled to vote on
proposed graduation incentive fees. These
fees were proposed prior to the passage of
Proposition 30.
In the days following the passage of Prop. 30,
the BoT indefinitely postponed the vote on
these incentive fees.
Thank you very much.