Academic Affairs Summary for 2012-2013

A brief look back at the year from my perspective

Spring 2013

Fall of 2012: Consider the new normal

Financial breakpoint raises questionso Education or training?o Commodity or common good?o Reducing per credit costs vs. quality?o Past precedence/practice vs. new?o Future of residential experience?

No return to the past Unprecedented time of opportunity and change

First step: Analyze academic affair’s current state and plan for the year

A few things I saw in fall 2012: my perspective

Emerging from severe budget cuts New leadership at upper levels Long term interim positions Need to redefine sustainable direction HLC assessment challenges No clear plan for academics University strategic plan expiring Historic practices no longer financially viable Trust and morale low

First, set a few broad goals with academic deans for 2012-2013

Re-establish leadership principles and institutional values

Identify and take early actions in critical areas

Make master academic planning central to university strategic planning

1. Re-establish leadership principles and

values Open communication and information flow

o Fall opening forumo Academic Affairs forumso Provost blogo College meetingso Open office hourso Expand dean’s council to academic council and post noteso Communicate regularly with all faculty/staffo Purposefully target university and community press releases

Promote collaborative learningo Create and offer course redesign grantso Provide new faculty scholarship grants

Promote community engagement and thinking globallyo Add staff in career services to coordinate internship opportunities o Add staff in the international program center to recruit students and

help with BSU students going aboard

2. Identify and take early actions in critical areas

Examples included in the upcoming slides

3. Make master academic planning central to university strategic planning

Agreement with the president on planning process for the year that included master academic planning and university strategic planning

Begin with creating Master Academic Plan in fall Begin strategic planning and do both concurrently

in spring Merge the two

Master academic planning

Work with others to create Master Academic Plano Ask for self-study from each academic program

• Provide info for a SWOT analysis for each department• Develop set of 10 indicators to use to guide analysis• Provide info for regional, state, national review of data

o Categorize all programs as:• Sustain• Grow• Revise• Create new

o Identify programmatic direction from program self-studieso Create college grids showing future directions by programo Set 4-5 focus areas overall for academic affairs for next 3-

5 years

Master academic planning

Arrived at four focus areas for next 3-5 yearso Financial sustainabilityo International competitivenesso Academic distinctivenesso Organizational structure to support other three areas

Financially Sustainable: Examples

Develop new budget models

Set expectations/criteria for every program Develop additional distance delivered programs

online and blended with national accreditationo Twin citieso Nationalo International

Move distance programs to 80/20 revenue sharing model

Pilot new budgeting model with CBTC

Internationally Competitive: Examples

Increase number of international students

Form CIBT/KGIC Partnershipo Attend international fairs o Enter into student recruitment contract o Up the number of visiting professorso Implement summer camps for international students o Work to help bring Chinese immersion teachers to the Twin

Cities o Create programmatic agreements

• CEAIE/AASCU 1+2+1 membership• Explore ECE, Nursing, Technology, and Engineering related

agreements with Sprott-Shaw College in Vancouver, B.C.• Explore agreement for Teacher Education in Lucerne and Beijing• Explore international partnership for MBA launch

Send faculty and students abroad

Expand Fulbright opportunities for faculty and students Secure slots for students to teach abroad through CIBT

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Secure slots for faculty to teach abroad through CIBT Secure slots for faculty projects abroad through CIEE Develop ‘Passport program’ for students

Provide affordable semester abroad opportunities

Provide student exchanges with 12 universities for under $1,000 a semester above cost of attending BSUo Reykjavik, Iceland; Tromse, Norway; Lucerne,

Switzerlando U of Comoros, Comoros Islandso HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiao Kyung Hee U, Seoul, Koreao Beijing (2), Dalian, Shenyang, Weifang, Guangzhou,

Chinao Northern Argentina; Recife, Brazil still to secureo Vancouver, B.C. Canada still to secureo University of Surabaya (UBAYA), Indonesia still to secure

Establish EB5 center

Partnership with University of North Dakotao BSU office to be established through external funding

Federal immigrant investor program State of Minnesota jurisdiction

Academically Distinctive: Examples

International efforts

Affordable semester abroad opportunities for all BSU students

3+1+1 and 2+2 agreements internationally with multiple programs

Recruitment of international students Collaboration with two year colleges

o International pathways via PathPro through AASCUo Semester abroad opportunities for their studentso Joint recruiting of international students

Collaboration with Tribal Colleges o Create shared courses using GLNo Provide their students semester abroad opportunities

Rethink graduate education

MBA, MAT approvals International 3/1/1 pathways to graduate degrees

with international partners Move to revenue sharing funding models Rethink Graduate Office staffing/responsibilities

Create and recreate

Expand student-faculty research efforts to include state event

Establish research and sponsored programs office Recreate library into learning commons Create manufacturing educational center in

Bemidjio Student entrepreneurship/innovation/incubatoro FAB labo Business services

Revisit liberal education

Provide course redesign small grantso Collaborative learning principleso Interdisciplinaryo Project-based/experiential

Create distinctivenesso Writing across the curriculumo Indigenous Studieso Environmental Sustainabilityo Allied Health

Provide multiple credentials for students Expand internships

Create new faculty scholarship and innovation fund

Funds for scholarly pursuit for new faculty Promote pursuit of external funding opportunities Work towards creation of research and sponsored

programs center

Promote service learning, internships and career

development Promote incorporation of service learning into

existing courses Move towards all students must have one:

o Service learningo Internshipo Practicum

Provide career services for life

Consider organizational structure

Organize task force to recommend BSU/NTC merger

Organize Internationalization Task Force Create College of Applied Technology Move interim leadership positions to permanent

positions Create Academic Affairs Council Appoint faculty coordinators for:

o Fulbright scholarshipso Passport program creationo International Relations Director