Transcript Celebrating CSUDH! Provost’s Welcome Forum Thursday, February 6, 2014 Loker Student Union Ellen Junn Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Celebrating CSUDH!
Provost’s Welcome Forum
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Loker Student Union
Ellen Junn
Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs
Welcome
Faculty
Staff
Students
Department Chairs
Deans and Associate Deans
Associate Vice Presidents & Directors
Agenda
Interactive with Data (Poll Everywhere)
(1) Getting feedback from faculty, staff, students
(2) Identifying priorities
(3) Next steps: Ideas, Innovation, Involvement &
Implementation
(4) Thank You and Q&A
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE NEW PROVOST
Origins in the Midwest.
Attended state and private institutions.
Deep core beliefs about diversity and inclusion.
A lifelong commitment to the CSU—27 years!
Sustained record of professional career
achievements in student support programs, faculty
development, as well as other areas such as
academic technology, legislative advocacy.
• Coming back home to s. CA and a wonderful
campus.
• No need for formalities!
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Let’s find out a bit more about you!
Please turn on your cell phones or iPad!
We want your participation with your
cell or smart phone, iPad or
laptop using
Poll Everywhere!
How To Vote via Texting
TIPS
1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)
2. We have no access to your phone number
How to vote via internet:
Use your smart phone, laptop, ipad to find:
http://pollev.com
Are You
Ready?
Let’s try it!
“UNIVERSITY”?
• Definition?
• Images?
• Institutional Composition?
• Purpose/Function?
• Personal Meanings?
Media Portrayals of Professors
Groucho – “Horse Feathers”
Professor Quincey Adams Wagstaff
(1932)
Fred MacMurray –
“Absent Minded
Professor”
Prof. Ned Brainard
(1961)
Russell Johnson in
“Gilligan’s Island”
Professor Roy Hinkley
(1964-67)
Jerry Lewis as
"The Nutty Professor"(1963)
Julia
Roberts,
Katherine
Watson,
“Mona Lisa
Smile”
(2003)
Henry Walton “IN
Jones” (Harrison
Ford) Professor of
Archaeology , OSS
agent (1981)
“Wonder Boys“
Michael Douglas
(2000)
“The Nutty Professor
“ (1996) Remake with
Eddie Murphy
OUR GREAT FACULTY!
Total = 841
• Tenured & Tenure-Track = 229
- Tenured:
- Tenure-Track:
• Lecturers = 612
197
32
Boyer’s Paradigm of Faculty Work in
Scholarship Reconsidered (1990)
•Faculty work is complex and multi-faceted.
•Multiple roles include scholarly work and
writing in 4 domains:
(1) research (discovery);
(2) teaching/learning;
(3) engagement (application); and
(4) integration.
•Faculty should be rewarded for scholarly
achievements in all of these areas.
OUR WONDERFUL
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
STAFF
Academic Affairs = 206
Total Campus = ~515
Possible Interest Areas
• Increase support for research, scholarly and
creative activity.
• Enhance support/resources for new teaching
and learning activities.
• Increase resources to increase High Impact
Practices (e.g., service learning, internships,
undergraduate research, study abroad).
• Improve student writing (e.g., WAC, WID).
• Enhance student advising and mentoring.
• Improve technology to reduce workload.
• Increase internationalization efforts.
Polling activity
DRAFT Academic
Affairs Principles
1. Privilege student success & graduation;
2. Increase faculty support in all of their roles,
along with staff support;
3. Focus on quality and service in everything
we do;
4. Enhance campus distinction & visibility;
5. Promote innovation, involvement;
6. Build collaborations across the campus
and in the community.
7. Find joy and fun in our activities!
NEXT ACTION STEPS:
• More faculty and staff hiring.
• Enhance research, scholarly and creative activity.
• Increase recognition for faculty & staff.
• Improve teaching support and technology (HIP,
hybrid/online).
• Encourage innovative teaching—invite me to your innovative
class!
• Support curricular and program innovations.
• Enhance community-building/collegial opportunities.
• Improve community outreach and resources.
• Identify new technologies to reduce workload/improve
efficiency.
• Continue to strengthen diversity & inclusion commitment.
Communication Plans
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5.
Provost’s Forums (1-2 per semester).
Email communications and improved websites.
Orientation meetings with all colleges.
Invite me to your department meeting!
Regular meetings with Chairs, Senate, CFA, ASI,
others.
6. Coffee Conversations with the Provost (Academic
Affairs staff; faculty).
7. Launch PR efforts to highlight achievements.
SUMMARY
(1) Honor our history, mission and past/current accomplishments;
(2) Think strategically and innovatively to stabilize and align budgets in
order to maximize student success;
(3) Understand and support the unique, complex, interdependent and
critical collaborative roles that faculty, staff and administrators
play together in promoting the success of our students, as well as
supporting scholarship, creative activity, service and community
advocacy connections.
(4) Proactively address strategic planning and accreditation issues.
(5) Allocate resources to create an inclusive climate of innovation,
creativity, results, and fun!
(6) Commit to enhanced collaboration and communication.
(7) Publicize our successes and achievements!
Celebrating Our History & Mission
President Hagan’s Investiture Theme
CSU Dominguez Hills: America Happens Here
• More than half a century after its founding, California State University,
Dominguez Hills serves as a conduit between the reality of today’s America
and a vision put forth not just by the CSU, but also by the country’s founders.
For if “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” truly are “inalienable rights,” so
too must be affordable, accessible and quality higher education for those who
seek it.
• The investiture of Dr. Willie J. Hagan as the 10th president of California State
University, Dominguez Hills provides an opportunity to reflect on the
university’s proud history of manifesting these principles. It also is a time to
reflect on how major issues’ facing today’s America such as, income inequality,
security versus privacy, peace-building and critical and sometimes
controversial scientific advances, unfold at CSU Dominguez Hills and how they
impact us and we them.
• California State University, Dominguez Hills was deliberately placed here in
Carson California to serve as the intersection of promise and hope for a
community in crisis and a source of quality education in a service area that
includes some of the wealthiest and poorest communities in California.
• A university where pride and purpose meet; where upward mobility begins;
where public policy is created, diversity is celebrated, and where a vision
articulated more than 200 years ago is made real for a new generation through
unprecedented access to affordable, quality higher education grounded in
academic excellence.
• America is a dream that happens every day. America happens at California
State University, Dominguez Hills.
THANK YOU!