Open Forums on the Reorganization of Instruction

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Open Forums on the Reorganization of Instruction

• Fall 2006
• Provost Council

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Goals for Reorganization

• Improve student success
• Improve opportunities for new programs
• Support new collaborations across disciplines
• Reduce operating costs

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Student Success Indicators Accountability
Measures

• Completion rates
• Passage rates
• Course availability
• Cost efficiency
• Operational effectiveness

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To Date

• Moran Report Is there a better organization for
  Instruction?
• VPI Council consideration of alternatives
• Alignment of ENG/MAT/DEV
• Spring 2006 Open Forum

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Emerging Alternative
ALH
LAS
FPA
EGR
BUS
ACT
DEH
ACC
LAS--AS
LEP
ART
ARC
BIS
DIT
COR
LAS--AA
ASL
AUT
BUS--AS
EMS
FST
AVT
BTN
ML
CIS
HIM
CAM
PED
FIN
DAN
ECE
IMT
CEGT
HMT
EET
DEV
MAS
IND
MAN
EGR--AS
MHT
MAT
MUS
MRK
ETD
OTA
ENG
PAR
THE
EVT
NSG
PCA
AIS
VIS
HVAC
RES
PTA
ATS
COM
IET
TNT
RAT
HHSO
QET
RET
SET
PAO
SUT
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Open Forum Discussion

• Load balancing across the divisions
• Graduation rates across the college and among
  peer institutions and the relationship of
  graduate rates to organizational structure
• Why change something when its working?
• How much will be saved by reducing the number of
  divisions?
• Extra support required for at-risk students
  Developmental Studies, counseling,
• Will positions be eliminated and who makes the
  decisions?

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Additional Considerations

• Program alignment
• College budget
• Individual thinking

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Current State

• No single model considered to date
• supports all goals equally well
• Student success in core
• (DEV, ENG, MAT) remains a focus
• Public expectation growing for more and better
  prepared grads in science, technology,
  engineering, math and medicine (STEM)
• Need to reduce college operating costs
• Need for coherence between reorganization
• and program realignment

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Questions to Answer on Index Cards

• What organizational structure do you think would
  best serve student learning and the needs of the
  community?
• As this process moves forward
• 2a. What is most important to you?
• 2b. What would you like to see happen?
• 2c. What do you like to see not happen?
• Are there particular disciplines, if aligned
  together, that could help us achieve the goals of
  reorganization?