SPHHS ALL-SCHOOL TOWN HALL FY18 BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PLANNING Friday, January 27, 2017 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Integrated Sciences Building, Room 221
FY18 DEPARTMENT BUDGET DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS & EPIDEMIOLOGY
Graduate education/Research, No New Resources BIOSTATISTICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Graduate education: •Promote new 4+1 degrees and accelerated MS in biostatistics •Increase RA/TA funding to 20 hrs. for multiple years for PhD students •Review curriculum to modernize, ensure sufficient breadth, optimize class size, and sufficient access to recommended/required courses •Develop an e-mail survey to determine reasons why admitted students decline to matriculate (more detail than “other institution better suited”) •Hire a FT lecturer to support teaching efforts Research: •Use current monthly Departmental Seminar series to invite outside speakers with whom faculty wish to start new collaborations, or receive input from re: grant ideas.
Graduate education/Research, New Resources BIOSTATISTICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Graduate education and Research: •Increase TT faculty numbers to increase breadth of curriculum, increase graduate student support, enhance research. Faculty size in each program is small relative to peers (e.g., <30% of median in 2012). Propose: • 1 Biostatistics TT (e.g., expertise in big data, biostatistical methods applied to neuroscience, or personal health monitoring) • 1 Epidemiology TT (e.g., expertise in addiction [preferably substance abuse], or in infectious disease focused on women’s health issues, or in CVD/obesity) Research: •Support school efforts to facilitate establishing at UMASS a workable high- speed computing/data storage system with HIPAA-required safeguards. (Not clear as to what, if any, new resources needed).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
CommDis Actions: No New Resources Needed Undergraduate Education: • Increase the quality and quantity of faculty/student interactions by assigning each undergraduate student a faculty guide. CHUM (Chief Undergraduate Mentor) program: beginning Spring semester 2017; • evaluation and modification, as needed, in FY18 • Initiation of major revisions to the undergraduate curriculum Graduate Education: • Explore and implement new clinical activities to increase the number and scope of clients. Research: • Increase “culture of research” in the department by promoting writing retreats, research forums, etc. • Revise merit criteria to provide clear incentives for submitting peer-reviewed papers and grant proposals.
CommDis Actions: New Resources Needed Undergraduate Education: Reduce the size of our upper-level undergraduate courses by hiring lecturers, who also may • provide clinical supervision and potentially teach on-line courses. Goal for FY18: lecturer to cover Audiology courses and supervision • Initiate on-line programs (Post-bac program, SLP-A program) • Graduate Education: Increase research assistant funding for Ph.D. students, possibly through revenue generated • by the on-line programs. Convene an advisory group to evaluate the Center for Language, Speech and Hearing. • Research: Increase faculty access to high-quality research space that is close to departmental offices • and provides adequate parking for research subjects.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES (EHS)
Department of Environmental Health Sciences (No new resources) Undergraduate Education • Strengthen conduit from undergrad to graduate program Graduate Education: • Increase number, quality, and diversity of graduate students • Increase number and funding of PhD students Research: • Increase overall research funding, including graduate student grants • Develop effective faculty mentoring support Curriculum Development; Competencies; Staffing Needs: • Comprehensive review to build a case for new faculty line/s
Department of Environmental Health Sciences (New resources needed) New Faculty Line/s: • Based on needs assessment, diversity criteria, etc. Undergraduate Education • Support for Lab supplies, lab equipment Graduate Education: • Increase funding opportunities for PhD students Research: • Add staff support for post-award management • Partial support for lecturer position to stabilize teaching due to grant buyouts
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROMOTION & POLICY
Department of Health Promotion & Policy Plans requiring new resources • Increase HPM faculty to minimum of 7 • Social action to save America
Department of Health Promotion & Policy Plans that do not require new resources • Launch marketing plan to increase applications to doctoral program • Increase quantity and quality of doctoral students • Revise UG & HPM curricula
DEPARTMENT OF KINESIOLOGY
Budget Development Processes – No Resources § Undergraduate • Work to maximize KIN use of new SPHHS advising resources • Develop group-level advising program § Graduate • Formalize Grad TA mentoring • Continue PhD progress reports and add Individualized Development Plans when available from graduate school § Research Update research culture document §
Budget Development Processes – Resources § Undergraduate • Develop courses to support CPE prevention/rehabilitation certification § Graduate • Continue to support student presentations and student publications § Research • Pay for external pre-review of grant submissions
DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION
Dept of Nutrition- No New Resources UNDERGRADUATE • Increase recruitment & retention of under-represented minority students • Increase enrollment of UG nutrition majors focused on global nutrition track & health sciences track (premed/pre professional) GRADUATE v Increase the number of full tuition paying Master’s students v Institute a 4+1 UG/MS program RESEARCH q Increase the amount of extramural grant funds & peer-reviewed publications q Increase utilization of UMass resources (e.g., IALS, faculty expertise)
Dept. of Nutrition - New Resources Needed UNDERGRADUATE • Hire a Coordinator of Experiential Learning Opportunities (research, fieldwork,internships, etc) • Establish a “ Student-Helping-Student ” network (Facebook posts, study groups, peer advisors, etc.) GRADUATE v Increase the number of PhD students with full 20h stipends v Develop a new online M.S. in Nutrition program RESEARCH q Increase the number of Nutrition Department TT faculty members from 8 to 9 q Develop a departmental fund to support nutrition dept. seminar series
PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM
PHS - Priority Areas 2017-2018 No Resources: • Improve resources available to students to improve advising • Implement group advising sessions for freshman and sophomore students. • (both as measured by Senior Survey data on satisfaction with academic advising) New Resources: • Increase the number and options of electives for undergraduate students • Continue to improve access to advising by hiring an additional advisor • (As measured by improvement in access to faculty and access to classes)
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