UW-Milwaukee College of General Studies
Background • In November 2017, the BOR approved joining UW-Waukesha and UW-Washington County with UWM • Reporting lines transfer as of July 1, 2018 • UW-Colleges administrative and governance structures dissolve • Faculty must have a new tenure home • Current course catalog and course registration remains through July 1, 2019 • UWM has applied for HLC approval to offer the AAS degree
New College Rationale • New administrative structure allows for easier: • Delineation of the AAS curriculum and its tuition structure from the rest of campus • Continuation of current workload and tenure & promotion practices • New Division proposal forthcoming • Most universities that offer associate degrees are through a separate college • Georgia State University (Perimeter College) • Loyola University Chicago (Arrupe College) • Ohio University (University College) • NYU (School of Professional Studies)
College of General Studies • Continuation of the Mission of the UW-Colleges • “The UW Colleges mission is to make a University of Wisconsin education affordable and accessible to all” • The College of General Studies will provide access to the first two years of a UWM education to those who are place-bound or desire a small Campus environment for their initial higher education experience
Proposed Structure (Appendix A)
Programmatic Impact • Curriculum Impact • Degree Programs (subject to HLC accreditation) • Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) • Flex AAS • BAAS (phasing out) • UW-Colleges courses will transfer to new UWM curricular codes with CGS prefix (e.g. CGS MATH 105) • Curriculum mapping process to facilitate entry to UWM majors • Scholarship Impact • CGS faculty will continue to conduct scholarship, including both the scholarship of discovery and scholarship of teaching & learning • Impact on other programs • Course alignment to facilitate matriculation to UWM • Only students admitted to AAS degree (or as special student) allowed to take CGS courses • External Impact • Waukesha and Washington County presence extend UWM reach into M7 region
Resource Impact • Budget • Implementation of the proposed staff, budget, and other planning elements is subject to UWS funding allocations transferred to UWM and the relevant Colleges’ budgets • Nearly all FTE represented in the CGS org chart (Appendix A) currently exist at the two campuses • Current uncertainty in the budget transfers that will provide Waukesha and Washington County campus support for HR, IT, etc. shown in Appendix C. • Facilities • Existing Waukesha and Washington County campuses
Personnel Impact • Staffing, workload, and position descriptions • Continued practices of the current UW-Colleges • Impact on existing staff • 2018-19, all staffing remains as it currently exists • 2019-onwards, subject to UWM central decision making as is the case for other UWM schools/colleges
Student Impact • Students within CGS • Continuation of current UW- Colleges’ focus on student success and strong preparation for four-year degrees • Students outside of CGS • Potential for CGS faculty to contribute to the undergraduate and graduate teaching mission in other colleges through affiliate or joint appointments
Proposed Edit #1 (Registrar) • Section IV(A)(3) • Old • It is anticipated that the impact of the College of General Studies on current enrollments in courses in other UWM colleges will be minimal. The tuition structure and course enrollments in the new College will only be available to those students who have been accepted to the AAS degree program or who are special students within the new College. Therefore, UWM students enrolled in four-year programs will not be eligible to enroll in these courses unless they apply for special student status in the new College, and tuition bills will be separate for any courses taken in this College. Therefore, the tuition plateau would not apply to combined credits. In effect, the ability for UWM students to take courses at the lower tuition rate in the new College will be the same as it was before the restructuring.
• New • It is anticipated that the impact of the College of General Studies on current enrollments in courses in other UWM colleges will be minimal. Generally speaking, students in the AAS degree program will be restricted to enrolling in classes offered through the College of General Studies, while students in a four-year program will be restricted to enrolling in classes offered through the other UWM colleges. The tuition structure in the new College only will be available to students in the AAS degree program or who are special students within the new College.
Proposed Edit #2 (APBC) • Section IV(A)(4) • Old • The current focus of the new College is to deliver UWM classes towards the first two- years of a bachelor’s degree to students needing a smaller environment, a more affordable option, and an option close to their homes in the greater Waukesha and Washington County regions • New • The focus of the College of General Studies will be to deliver the associate’s degree with UWM classes that also may count toward the first two years of the bachelor’s degree for students needing a smaller environment or an option close to their homes in the greater Waukesha and Washington County regions.
Questions A. Does the committee tasked with planning the creation of the new college include someone (or has it interviewed someone) from UWM that is directly involved in data reporting for college rankings? Graduation and retention rates are among the main criteria by which colleges are judged, and we need to make sure that the students from the two-year college are not counted or reported in aggregate with our regular (i.e., 4-year) students, to avoid UWM's dropping in rankings after the merger. B. Conversely, has the committee considered using this opportunity to incorporate the current remedial Math and English classes into the two-year certificate programs? This would allow the students that do not want to continue with a four-year degree to put to a good use the time and money they spent taking remedial classes. How this particular idea is implemented would, of course, depend on how the first part of this question is addressed.
Questions A group of us is hoping to get on the upcoming Senate agenda a discussion of questions of equity between the "New College" faculty and the rest of UWM. At the former, a course counts as 20% (a full teaching load is, then, 5:5). At UWM, though teaching expectations vary widely, a course counts as 25% of load (so if you teach 2:2, the expectation is that the other 50% of your job is service or research or admin). Arguably, the differential could create problems down the road.
Questions 1. Will the dissolution of departments that are common across campuses lead to department chairs returning to teaching duties? Will this have an impact upon academic staff teaching loads? 2. How will the dean search for the new college be conducted?
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