Academic Affairs

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Academic Affairs

• Dec. 4, 2012

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Three divisions

• Academic Affairs/The Colleges
• Enrollment Management
• Research and Economic Development

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Academic Affairs

• An intentional, integrated and experiential UG
  education
• Linked courses
• Alignment with specific competencies
• Expanded honors program
• Expanded learning communities
• The Colleges
• Support for existing programs
• New program development

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New Program Development

• Strategic initiatives leveraging existing
  strengths
• UG Forensic specializations Chemistry, Biology
  and Criminal Justice
• UG and Grad Analytics program Business,
  Statistics and Information Systems
• Specialized master level business programs
  Sales, Healthcare
• Accelerated Bachelor/Master programs
• Joint graduate programs with international
  partner universities
• New alternative delivery program
• Media and Communications online professional
  masters
• Blended Masters in Educational Administration

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Academic Affairs

• Faculty
• Contract with BGSU-FA
• Faculty Development
• Higher Learning Commission
• Facilities
• Decision Support Systems Analytics

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Enrollment ManagementRecruit, Retain and
Graduate

• Recruitment Strategies
• Traditional UG student population
• Scholarship shift, yield, new programs
• Non-traditional UG student population
• Leverage articulation agreements, focused
  regional strategy, finish what you started
  campaign
• Graduate Students (full-time and part-time)
• Marketing, allocation of scholarships, New
  programs
• International Grad and UG
• Embassy visits, leveraging alumni, ESL programs
• Alternative Delivery Methods (On-line, Hybrid,
  Weekend, Evening programs)
• Increase visibility of existing programs
• Develop additional alternative delivery methods
  of existing programs
• Develop new programs

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Historic Freshmen Retention Rates ()
Fall 2011 (As of fall 12) Fall 2010 (As of fall 11) Fall 2009 (As of fall 10) Fall 2008 (As of fall 09)
Number of new students 3,860 3,899 3,142 3,054
BGSU average retention of all FTFT Freshmen 69.2 71.8 76.6 73.1
Ave. retention of declared major during first year
Ave. retention of academic learning communities
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Historic Freshmen Retention Rates ()
Fall 2011 (As of fall 12) Fall 2010 (As of fall 11) Fall 2009 (As of fall 10) Fall 2008 (As of fall 09)
Number of new students 3,860 3,899 3,142 3,054
BGSU average retention of all FTFT Freshmen 69.2 71.8 76.6 73.1
Ave. retention of declared major during first year 71.8 73.6 78.9 75.6
Ave. retention of academic learning communities 79.2 82.3 84.2 83.1
Engage the student.retain the student
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Retain and Graduate

• Academic and Administrative Policies and
  Procedures
• Support and Feedback for Students
• Progress Reporting, Learning Commons
• Academic and Career Advising (including programs
  for undecided majors and pre-professional)
• Academics
• Linked Courses, First-year Academic Seminar
• Assessment of Student Learning
• Expanding internship programs
• Faculty Support and Development (grants and
  integration of centers)
• Alignment of teaching space to support active
  learning pedagogy

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Research and Economic Development

• Importance of Research
• For faculty
• For students
• For BGSU
• BGSUs role in our region

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BGSU

• Role of Technology
• Recruitment, Teaching, Assessment,
  Coaching/Advising, Placement, Research
• Everything we do

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For DiscussionBGSU commitment to students

• Four year graduation commitment
• Experiential education opportunity for every
  student (internship, study abroad, service
  learning, applied capstone, etc.)
• Success based scholarships
• For qualified students, the ability to graduate
  debt free of tuition and fees