UNC Tomorrow: Carolina’s Response

Campus Forums at UNC-Chapel Hill

April 14-15, 2008

Purpose of This Meeting

• UNC Tomorrow Background

• Carolina’s Process for Responding

• UNC Tomorrow Findings and Recommendations

• Overview of Draft Response—New Programs and Activities

• Next Steps

• Instructions for More Information and Feedback

UNC Tomorrow—Overview

• UNC Tomorrow is a system-wide initiative led by President Erskine Bowles

• “How can UNC respond more directly and proactively to the 21st century challenges facing North Carolina through . . . the efficient and effective fulfillment of its three-pronged mission of teaching, research and scholarship, and public service.”

 

UNC Tomorrow—Overview

• UNC Tomorrow Commission (28 members)

• 11 community listening forums (2,700 people)• Online survey (6,700 responses)• 11 campus listening forums (1,000 faculty, staff, and students)

• Scholars Council (Jim Johnson and Tom Ricketts)

• Reported findings and recommendations in December 2007• Adopted by Board of Governors in January 2008• Response instructions to campuses in late January and February

Carolina’s Response, Phase I

• Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bernadette Gray-Little is leading Carolina’s response to UNC Tomorrow.

• Phase 1 of the UNCT response focuses on engagement and is being managed by Mike Smith, Vice Chancellor for Public Service and Engagement.

• Global Readiness• Increasing Access to Higher Education• Improving Public Education• Economic Transformation and Community Development• Health• Environment

• Phase 1 response due to UNC General Administration—May 1, 2008.

Carolina’s Response—Campus Input

• January 7 Kick-Off Meeting. Email from Chancellor Moeser announcing UNCT and asking for cooperation (Jan. 31).

• Provost Gray-Little appointed committees to develop draft new initiatives for each policy area. First meetings on Feb. 14.

• Email from Provost Gray-Little encouraging faculty to contact committee chairs with ideas (Feb. 18).

• Meetings with Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, Engagement Council, Deans Council, and Students. Email updates in February/March.

Carolina’s Response—The Process

• The short timeline has made the process challenging and less than perfect—to say the least

• Anger, denial, bargaining, and depression

• Acceptance is the best course

• Many of the draft proposals require planning and implementation after May 1—it will permit a broader and more transparent process

Carolina’s Response—Instructions

• For each policy area, no more than 5-6 new and existing programs and activities that respond to UNCT

• Committees have focused on new programs and activities

• Respond to a demonstrated need• Interdisciplinary• Inter-institutional• Pilot

• Students working on their own response to UNCT

Our Global Readiness

Major FindingUNC should educate its students to be personally and professionally successful in the 21st century and, to do so, should enhance the global competitiveness of its institutions and their graduates.

Recommendations21st Century Skills• Prepare its students for successful professional and personal lives in

the 21st century, equipping them with the tools they will need to adapt to the ever-changing world.

Our Global Readiness

RecommendationsGlobal Competitiveness• Be globally competitive, especially in research programs, to ensure that

they are globally relevant and significant.

• Promote increased partnerships between its own campuses and international universities and enhance the global awareness of its faculty and students.

Our Global Readiness

• Student preparation—develop plans to implement foreign language requirement and interdisciplinary course clusters

• Create strategic plan to internationalize Carolina—including means to educate North Carolinians about globalization

• Global Research Institute

• Expansion of Triangle partnerships with Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

• Research Tool Set

Our Citizens and Their Future: Access to Higher Education

Major FindingUNC should increase access to higher education for all North Carolinians, particularly for underserved regions, underrepresented populations, and non-traditional students.

Recommendations• Increase access to its educational programs – including academic

courses, degree programs at all levels, and certificate programs – for traditional students, non-traditional students, and lifelong learners.

• Continue ongoing efforts with the North Carolina Community College System to strengthen and streamline articulation between the two systems to develop a more seamless relationship.

• Be a model for accommodating the needs of persons with disabilities, including students, faculty, staff, and the general public.

Our Citizens and Their Future: Access to Higher Education

Recommendations• Increase the educational attainment of all underrepresented

populations, especially African-American male and Hispanic students.

• Help ensure that all students are better prepared to enter and succeed academically in college.

Our Citizens and Their Future: Access to Higher Education

• Expansion of Scholars’ Latino Initiative

• College access and advising course and curriculum

• Access for youth from North Carolina’s public foster care system

• Undergraduate certificate and degree-completion program

• Residential college advising and educational support program

Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education

Major FindingUNC should be more actively involved in solving North Carolina’s public education challenges.

Recommendations• Improve the quantity, quality, and geographic distribution of public

school teachers.

• Help address the shortage of science and math teachers, especially in rural areas.

• Strengthen efforts to enhance the teaching skills of public school faculty and the leadership skills of administrators.

Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education

Recommendations• Leverage its expertise and increase collaborations to lower our state’s

dropout rate and improve academic achievement in all North Carolina public schools, especially those that are high-priority and low-performing.

• Strengthen partnerships to develop a seamless educational continuum from pre-K through higher education (“Birth – 20”).

Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education

• Public Education Collaborative

• Carolina Teacher Scholar Program

• Online Learning for Experienced Teachers and Administrators

• Expansion of Career Start

• Pipeline to the Teaching Profession

Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation

Major Finding

UNC should be more actively engaged in enhancing the economic transformation and community development of North Carolina’s regions and the state as a whole.

Recommendations

• Increase capacity and commitment to respond to this finding.

• Focus efforts on rural and underserved areas of the state.

• Seek to align appropriate campus programs with economic plans of our region and the state.

Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation

Recommendations

• Promote arts and cultural enrichment across the state.

• Facilitate inclusive discussions on important community issues.

Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation

• Center for Community and Economic Transformation

• Launching the Venture

• UNC Classroom of Tomorrow

Our Health

Major Finding

UNC should lead in improving the health and wellness of all people and communities in our state.

Recommendations

• Lead in improving health and wellness in North Carolina.

• Educate more health professionals.

• Lead in utilizing health information to improve health and wellness in North Carolina.

Our Health

• Community Connections Two-way portal—Campus resources and community needs Research to practice—Beyond obesity and cardiovascular disease

• State Employees Healthy Workforce Initiative

• Increasing the health professional workforce Expansion of institutional capacity to train health professionals North Carolina Health Workforce Advisory Board Consortium for Health Workforce Diversity

• Interdisciplinary Health Communications Center

Our Environment

Major Finding

UNC should assume a leadership role in addressing the state’s energy and environmental challenges.

Recommendations

• Embrace environmental sustainability as a core value among its institutions.

• Leverage its existing research expertise to address critical environmental and energy issues.

• Increase community awareness of environmental and sustainability issues.

Our Environment

• UNC Council for a Sustainable Environment

• Sustainable Water and Energy for NC—New Knowledge, Partnerships, and Practice

• Carolina’s Campus—A Living Laboratory for Environmental Sustainability

Our University’s Outreach and Engagement

Major FindingUNC should become more directly engaged with and connected to the people of North Carolina, its regions, and our state as a whole.

Recommendations• Apply, translate and communicate research and scholarship to broader

audiences.

• Develop a strategic plan for scholarly public service on each campus that is detailed and specific in definition and scope.

Our University’s Outreach and Engagement

Recommendations• Create a mechanism for applying research and scholarship to address

significant regional and statewide issues.

• Communicate its resources and expertise to wider audiences.

Our University’s Outreach and Engagement

• NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (TraCS) Institute

• Faculty Engaged Scholars Program

• Campus Dialogue and Planning Process about Engaged Scholarship

• UNC Center for Applied Public Policy Research

• Database of Public Service and Engagement at Carolina

Other Information about Phase I

Changes to Internal Policies and Procedures:• Improving efficiency• Improving interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations• Improving accountability and performance

Student initiatives at Carolina

Next Steps• Input from Vice Chancellors and Deans• Final decision by Provost and Chancellor

UNC Tomorrow: Carolina’s Response

For more information on the UNC Tomorrow Commission report:www.nctomorrow.org

For more details on today’s proposals:http://www.unc.edu/pse/unctomorrow-about.php

Send comments and questions to engage@sog.unc.edu