ANNUAL STRATEGIC PROGRESS HIGHLIGHTS AND PRIORITIES FOR 0708

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

• ANNUAL STRATEGIC PROGRESS HIGHLIGHTS AND
  PRIORITIES FOR 07/08
• October 10, 2007

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Planning Themes

• University Vision
• Vision Regionally Focused, Nationally
  Recognized (2007 Presidents Convocation)
• And Globally Engaged
• College Planning Themes
• High Quality Education
• Faculty Development
• Community Partnerships

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Continuous Improvement in High Quality
Education 2006-2007

• Began implementation of web-based platform for
  the internship program
• More than 250 internships (including 132
• in management) were conducted
• Marketing approved internship requirement
• 3 profit generating cohorts for the graduate
  certificate program started

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More Improvements

• Educational Quality
• All Core Courses were assessed/data used to
  inform continuous improvement
• Math 103 Implementation began
• Supplemental Instruction Program (Math 103L)
  developed and piloted to improve success in new
  Math 103
• Business Law Piloted First College Course in
  Business Ethics

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Still More Improvements inEducational Quality

• Added two advisors in the Office of Student
  Advisement to improve advisement services/improve
  retention
• Continuous Improvement in Advisement Committee
  continued into its 2nd year with training and
  support from accounting, management and marketing

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Our Students Shine Regionally and Nationally in
06/07

• AccountingBeta Alpha Psi
• 1st place in Regional Best Practices
  Competition
• Information Technology Regional Competition
• 1st place in Telecommunications Competition
• 1st place in Business Systems Analysis
• Marketing Competitions
• 1st place in Nation for Best Communications Plan
• 1st , 2nd and 3rd place in Western States
  Collegiate Sales Competition

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Continuous Improvement in Faculty Development

• APPROXIMATELY 93 of the Tenured and Tenure-track
  faculty are currently academically or
  professionally qualified
• Support for faculty development continues
• Three units of reassigned time each semester for
  AQ faculty
• Financial support for faculty travel of 1000
  from College
• Graduate Program and College Research Awards

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Faculty Research Grant Award Winners 06/07

• Ardavan Asef-Vaziri
• James Chong
• Vincent Covrig
• Rafi Efrat

Seung-Kuk Paik Lois Shelton Rishma Vedd Yue
(Jeff) Zhang
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College Research Awards

• Applied Research
• Award Winner
• James Chong

Basic Research Award Winner Vincent Covrig
Pedagogical Research Award Winner David
Ackerman Barbara Gross
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Graduate Faculty Awards

• Graduate Research AwardJames Chong
• Graduate Teaching Awardwill be announced later
  in this meeting

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Our Faculty Shine Regionally and Nationally in
06/07

• Franck VigneronPaper of the Decade, Academy of
  Marketing Science
• Phil Gormanelected Program Director, Western
  Academy of Management, also President elect
• Patricia Born President of Western Risk and
  Insurance Association
• Barbara Grossserved as Program Director,
  Marketing Educators Association, also
  President-elect

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Continuous Improvement in Building Strategic
Partnerships

• Strategic PartnershipsRegional Focus
• Economic Summit drew more than 500 participants
• Wells Fargo Center for Small Business
  Entrepreneurship
• Sponsored the Centers first Elevator Pitch
  Competition
• Supplied 12 Consulting Projects to Local Business
• Developed Marketing Plan for College of Education

Center for Real Estate
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More Improvements

• Strategic PartnershipGlobally Engaged
• Rafi Efrat and Ali Behnezhad
• Were awarded a U.S. Dept. of Education Grant for
  their Proposal
• Service Learning in Global Supply Chain
  Management and Cross Cultural Understanding in
  Business

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Still More Improvements

• Strategic PartnershipGlobally Engaged
• Center for China Finance and Business Research
• Chao Chen, Mingfang Li and Zhong-guo Zhou
• Hosted Symposium
• Globalization in Financial Services Industry in
  China

Zhong-guo Zhou
Mingfang Li
Chao Chen and other speakers at 2004 Wharton
School's China Business Forum  
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Continuous Improvement in Funds Development

• Strategic Partnerships
• Reorganized, reestablished and repurposed COBAE
  Advisory Board
• Approximately 1.6 million raised
• 300,000 from Ernst and Young to support High
  Quality Education
• Over 100 meetings with donors and potential
  donors
• Brought more Speakers into Classrooms e.g.,
  Jamey Power, Fred Joyal, and Lee Froshheiser

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Strategic Priorities

• 2007/2008

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High Quality Education2007/2008

• Launch Master of Science in Taxation Program
• More use of assessment to improve student
  learning
• Grow and Improve the Internship Program
• Cultivate more Internships (300 new)
• Standardize processes across Departments
• Improve Student Advisement
• Finance and Business Law faculty will work with
  the Advisement Continuous Improvement Committee
  this year

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More on High Quality Education

• Cultivate the Development of an Appropriate
  Business Communication Course to be taught by the
  English Dept.
• Make Student-centered Learning Pedagogies
  explicit in our Curriculum
• Assess and Evaluate future use of ETS relative to
  the CSU-BAT or alternatives

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Faculty Development2007/2008

• Faculty Hiring
• At least two (plus one hired 1 year early) new
  tenure-track hires for next fall7 new faculty
  began this fall
• Strategic Plans to hire approximately 20 more
  faculty in next four years
• Clarify and simplify requirements for AQ

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More Strategic Priorities for Faculty Development

• Develop Definition of Participating and
  Supporting Faculty
• Monitor and Maintain Qualified Faculty--Use
  Digital Measures to measure and monitor faculty
  teaching, intellectual, and service contributions

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Strategic Priority for the College

• Improve Strategic Planning Process
• Longer range prospective
• Consideration of new strategic goals and
  objectives

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Community Partnership2007/2008

• Raise 4 million in donations and pledges
• Continue efforts to put more executives in our
  classrooms, leverage our service learning
  projects and our internship program to cultivate
  and sustain community partnerships
• Centers should continue to adapt to more
  effectively service the university and the
  community