Provosts Update Provost s Update February 2009 y Agenda - PDF document

Provost’s Update Provost s Update February 2009 y

Agenda • Welcome, introductions • Two questions to be thinking g about: – What do you want to know? y – What do Bill and I need to know? • Provost Update (20 min ) Provost Update (20 min.) • Discussion, questions, etc.

Update on Academic Affairs Initiatives Initiatives

Vision, Goals, Priorities Vision: National and Vision: National and Priorities: Priorities: international reputation • Student success • Scholarship, research, Goals: Research, Goals: Research creative work ti k diversity, retention, • Innovation faculty recruitment, • International education fund-raising, fund raising, applications, etc. • Diversity and inclusivity • Academic operations Two targets we missed g • Academic program • Academic program last year: success – Retention • Faculty success – Hiring women faculty

Priority Initiatives Student Success Student Success and AALANA tiger teams; University Studies Research, Scholarship, Addressing Workload-Expectation gap; Faculty associate Creative Work for scholarship; addressing space and start-up Innovation Innovation Innovation Workgroup; Director search; Inventory Innovation Workgroup; Director search; Inventory Diversity and Inclusivity Women faculty recruitment; AEDAC International Education Study Abroad study Academic Operations Academic Operations Academic Space Planning Committee B dget Information Academic Space Planning Committee; Budget Information sharing Academic Program General Education learning outcomes; Gen Ed assessment Success Success process; Gen Ed rethinking; assessment director; graduate process; Gen Ed rethinking; assessment director; graduate education planning; program audit; program review Faculty Success Visioning broader faculty support for teaching, scholarship; emerging leaders program; g g p g ;

Student Success • Student Success Tiger • “University Studies” Team to look at retention project to elevate the picture broadly picture broadly institutional attention to institutional attention to undeclared students or • AALANA Student students who want to Success Tiger Team to change majors h j look at those issues that in particular affect AALANA students AALANA students

Student Success Tiger Team Members Vincent Amuso Ed Lincoln Heath Boice–Pardee Julia Lisuzzo Eulas Boyd Joe Loffredo Joan Graham Sophia Maggelakis Barbara Heifferon Barbara Heifferon Chip Sheffield Chip Sheffield David Koster (student) Kristen Waterstram ‐ Rich Christine Licata George Zion

Student Success Tiger Team Progress Report Objective: Recommend Student Success Action Plan Activity Status: October – December 2008 Activity Status: December 2008 – February 2009 I. DATA Discovery: Framing The II. Best Practices: Understanding Challenge Challenge What Works and Why What Works and Why • Persistence/graduation rates at RIT • Seminal research reports, compared to peer AITU institutions monographs and publications D, F, W in 1 st year; Gender; Ethnicity; D F W in 1 st year; Gender; Ethnicity; • • • • Consortium for Student Retention Consortium for Student Retention Median SAT Scores; In–State/Out-of- Data Exchange Resources State Students; Transfer Students • Field visits: • RIT Branding Report - Syracuse, Cornell, MIT, • NSSE results (2005, 2007) NSSE results (2005, 2007) Drexel and RPI Drexel and RPI • Noel Levitz results (2006, 2008)

Student Success Tiger Team Progress Report , continued Activity Status: February 2009 Activity Status: March ‐ April 2009 III. RIT’s Retention Initiatives: How Do IV. Setting the Future Course: We Measure Up? Recommendations for 72/93 Plan Recommendations for “72/93” Plan** • Review previous retention committee reports (1993, 2000, & • Propose RIT Student Success Plan 2003) characterized by: • • Collect information review results Collect information, review results • High impact, value added h l dd d and effectiveness metrics for RIT’s programs and practices current retention strategies (FYE; • Sustainable Institute Advising; Learning • Outcomes ‐ oriented and Communities * ; Early Alert System; AIM assessment driven Program; Honors Program; College ‐ Based Initiatives; Student Life Initiatives ** Meet President Destler’s 2012 goals: ** Meet President Destler s 2012 goals: * Consultant conducting assessment of 72% 6 year graduation rate / 93% 2nd year Learning Communities. Report due April 2009. retention rate

University Studies • Objective: Provide more Obj i P id • E Exploration programs retained l i i d institutional attention to the and play a key role; will create entering uncertain student or a separate CLA Explorations the student who wants to program change majors h j • For fall 2009, no new students • Housed in the Office of the will be recruited; about 50 Provost Provost students for US and 25 for students for US and 25 for CLA Explorations (coming from normal RIT Exploration • Merging the non-curricular ‘crop’) components of RIT Explorations with Internal E l ti ith I t l Transfers; no new FTE • US Advisory Board consists of faculty and staff representation from all the colleges

Research, Scholarship and Creative Work • Workload Expectation • Piloting “Faculty gap project Associate for Scholarship” to involve – Address the gap that more faculty in exists between faculty administrative decision administrative decision expectation to do expectation to do making scholarship and teaching workload • Producing Academic Aff i Affairs report on • Increase undergraduate scholarship and creative research emphasis work

Workload-Expectation Gap • Complex problem C l bl • Largest gap found in L t f d i requires multiple stages CAST, COS, CLA and over multiple years GCCIS • Stage 1: Addressing • Addressing with significant outliers in the resources to add a pre-tenure, tenure-track mixture of adjuncts (not j ( ranks to exceed 15%) and lecturers • Approximate norm for pretenure, tenure-track: pretenure, tenure track: • Provost to propose at Provost to propose at 24 CH per year budget hearings

Innovation • Innovation Working I ti W ki • Center for Student C t f St d t Group: Richard Innovation DeMartino and Jon – Director of Student Innovation and Schull; Undergraduate Support; – Fall: identified identified programmatic charter for programmatic charter for – 1 staff Center for Student Innovation – Faculty associates – Spring: working to Spring: working to • Next year: Assist faculty • Next year: Assist faculty identify innovation to create ‘signatory’ inventory innovation program

Diversity and Inclusivity • Focus on recruitment and • Good progress: FY 10 – 2 retention of AALANA out of 7 AALANA and 4 students and faculty AND y out of 7 women women students and • Climate survey faculty • Formed Academic Diversity and Equity Diversity and Equity • Last year: Did not meet Advisory Committee targets for women faculty • Dr. Margaret Bailey recruits recruits l leading NSF-funded grant di NSF f d d looking at women faculty issues

International Education • Study: Assessing the y g • AY 2010: Increase obstacles to better focus on better utilization of RIT integration between global campuses l b l existing programs and i ti d oversea operations • Goals for Study G l f St d Abroad

Academic Operations • Formed Academic Space • Established budget Planning Committee transparency across Academic Innovation Academic Innovation – Led by Sue Provenzano Led by Sue Provenzano Council – Subset of Deans, Asst. Provost for Library, VP for Research Research • Hired Academic Affairs – Prioritizing immediate, Budget Officer: Jennifer midrange and long-term Mastrangelo Mastrangelo space needs space needs

Academic Program Success • Accreditation focus – A dit ti f • 3 General Education 3 G l Ed ti need for Gen Ed and activities program outcomes and – Initial pilot program to assessment plans t l college data from ll d t f assessment • Hired Anne Wahl as – AS Taskforce to propose new Learning g outcomes and outcomes and Outcomes Assessment assessment Director – Curriculum committees from CLA and COS • Individual programs are Individual programs are proposing ideas for Gen working to provide Ed ‘rethinking’ assessment portfolio

Faculty Success • Looking at reorganizing • Developing ‘Emerging support for scholarship Leaders’ program to ‘grow across library, FITL, etc. our own’ leaders • Identified tenure and promotion procedural • Office of Faculty changes to provide more changes to provide more Recruitment moved to Recruitment moved to support for faculty: Academic Affairs – Midterm comprehensive review review • Expanding faculty f – External letters recruitment to include – University committee to emphasis on women review split cases p – Dates changed

Di Discussion … i What do you want to know? What do you think we need to know?