SPACE-RELATED
PRIORITIES
DEBBIE STORRS, DEAN
January 14-15, 2016
ARTS & SCIENCES
With the most student credit hours of any
UND college, we educate virtually every
student, many through Essential Studies. We
provide the liberal arts education all
graduates need for successful and
meaningful lives.
Our success is
CRITICAL
to UND’s future.
A&S GOALS
Enhance student
retention and
learning success
Help students develop
knowledge of human
cultures, strong sense of
social responsibility,
creativity, and essential
intellectual skills, including
verbal and written
communication and
analytical problem solving
Implement innovative
pedagogical approaches
that facilitate development
of these skills and
associated collaborative
and creative abilities to
solve complex and
unscripted problems
Develop innovative
curricula that integrate
knowledge across
disciplines and enhance
opportunities for applied
learning to solve realworld problems
Facilitate development of
strategic research and
creative activity foci that
enhance undergraduate
and graduate student
success, while
addressing critical issues
for the state of North
Dakota
SPACE-RELATED PRIORITIES
Immediate  Intermediate  Long Term
1
2
3
4
5
6
Relocate departments/programs due to safety, accreditation, or essential delivery issues.
Enhance undergraduate student retention and learning success in high enrollment/low success classes.
Consolidate fragmented departments/programs; move out of or modernize poor quality spaces.
Remove unused and inefficient spaces and buildings from A&S control to improve academic programs, and
justify new capital projects.
Secure sufficient space for strategic enrollment growth.
Garner internal and external support for 2 new capital projects.
PRIORITY 1
Relocate departments/programs due to safety,
accreditation, or essential delivery issues.
Theatre Arts
Communication Sciences & Disorders
• Deferred maintenance and safety (Chandler Hall)
• Move offices and teaching to suitable space
• Accreditation concerns
• Lack of clinical space complicates treatment
delivery, privacy, and parking
• Offices and clinical space to suitable space
PRIORITY 2
Enhance student retention and success in heavily enrolled ES courses
3 Year Enrollment Total
College
College Composition
8259
A&S
Public Speaking
4919
A&S
General Chemistry I & II
4803
A&S
Intro to Psychology
3929
A&S
Intro to Sociology
3886
A&S
Micro & Macroeconomics
3742
CBPA
General Biology I & II
3453
A&S
College Algebra
3313
A&S
American Government
3088
CBPA
Course
Numbers are combined from Fall 2012 to Spring 2015
ES Courses with High DFW Rates
College
Course
# Students
# DFW
% DFW
A&S
Chemistry 115
878
324
37
A&S
Chemistry 121/122
4803
1556
32
A&S
Math 103
3313
977
30
A&S
Physics 161
391
165
42
A&S
Physics 211
464
149
32
SEM
Engineering 460
460
275
38
SEM
Geology 101
1190
461
39
CBPA
Business 101
1299
400
31
CBPA
Economics 201
2152
635
30
CBPA
Economics 202
1590
530
33
A&S
Math 107 (Non ES)
48
A&S
Math 146
54
A&S
Math 102 (Non ES)
46
Numbers are combined from Fall 2012 to Spring 2015
Academic
Outcomes
&
Estimated
Tuition
Loss
2011 - 2012
$1,080,310
2012 - 2013
$1,051,492
2013 - 2014
$1,515,612
2014 - 2015
$1,615,279
4 Year Total
$5,262,693
Estimate based on students taking courses at regional institutions.
Most commonly Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Biology courses.
% DFW
Pre
% DFW
Post
% A Grades
Pre
% A Grades
Post
Concepts of Biology
General Biology I & II
25.7
31.0
17.6
16.0
21.3
17.6
36.8
30.2
Genetics
23.5
15.3
21.0
23.0
Ecology
21.0
7.3
29.6
53.6
Evolution
10.7
5.1
51.5
72.8
Cell Biology
19.5
9.1
21.9
27.7
Numbers are combined from Fall 2009 to Spring 2012 for pre scores, and from Fall 2012 to Spring 2015 for post scores
SCALE-UPs
(Student-Centered
Active Learning Environment
for Undergraduate Programs)
The power of innovative teaching
spaces: opportunities to teach differently
and improved undergraduate student
success in all Biology classes
RE-IMAGINE
THE QUAD
Cluster of active/collaborative
learning classrooms enhancing
student success in courses with
high DFW rates (mostly STEM)
O’Kelly Hall
Basement Floor
- Potential site for
math emporium
Abbott Hall
First Floor
-potential
classrooms for
SCALE-UP type
renovation
RE-IMAGINE
THE QUAD
SCALE UP
Math Emporium
STEM Collaborative
Learning Classroom
As ranked by Facilities,
O’Kelly &
Merrifield
Top 2 buildings
in line for
updating and
renovation;
Home to central
disciplines in the
liberal arts
Priority 3
Consolidate
fragmented
departments &
programs central
to the liberal
arts;
move out
or modernize
poor quality
spaces.
POTENTIAL CONSOLIDATIONS
Departments/Programs
Rationale
Communication Offices
Critical role in high enrollment public speaking courses
Continued enrollment demand
English Offices
Highest student enrollment in A&S
Critical role in high enrollment introductory writing courses
Psychology Offices
Teaching facilities for large classes
Support for thriving online program
Classrooms and offices near clinical space
CSD & other clinic
spaces
Important teaching and clinical function;
Enhances treatment, delivery, privacy, and parking
Increase collaboration among clinics
Modernize & Better Utilize Space e.g., Merrifield Hall Basement & First Floor Critical for High Enrollment Writing Courses
Merrifield Hall Basement
Critical for High Enrollment Writing Courses
Modernize outdated instructional lab facilities
Starcher & Abbott
1940’s Lab
Modern Lab
Priority 4
remove underutilized & inefficient spaces and buildings from A&S control
&
consolidate spaces to support justification for new capital projects
POTENTIAL INTERNAL MOVES
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Theatre Arts
Psychology
Communication
College Office
NEGLECTED and POOR QUALITY
SPACES FOR OFF-LINE
CONSIDERATION
e.g. Witmer
PRIORITY 5
Secure sufficient space
for strategic enrollment
growth.
• Current needs - appropriate teaching
spaces to accommodate programs with
large enrollments: e.g. Communications,
Psychology, Criminal Justice, Biology
• Need for appropriate infrastructure to
allow on-line learning initiatives to grow
• Future needs - appropriate teaching
spaces to accommodate programs with
significant growth in diverse areas in the
college including:
•
e.g. Chemistry, Math, Physics, CSD, Graphic
Design (Art), Music Therapy (Music), PreHealth (Biology)
Need for physical space
and infrastructure to
accommodate demand.
Spaces need to accommodate
different teaching and delivery
methods
Biology: Fish & Wildlife
Communication
Sciences & Disorders
Biology: Pre-Health
Criminal Justice
Chemistry
Math
Communication
Psychology
Physics
Music Therapy
Graphic Design
A&S programs
with strong
enrollment and
growth
Petroleum
Mechanical
Chemical
Engineering
Programs
Exhibiting
EXCEPTIONAL
Growth
Civil
Electrical
PRIORITY 6
Garner internal and external support for 2 new
capital projects for the College of Arts & Sciences.
TRANSFORMATIONAL
STEM EDUCATION &
RESEARCH CENTER
• Demolish Witmer and build STEM Education & Research Center
• Provide office and research space for Mathematics and Physics
• Provide space to facilitate cross disciplinary interactions
• Seamless transition between “lecture” and laboratory teaching and research spaces
• Integrate faculty research labs into undergraduate and graduate teaching spaces
• Support critical research needs for the State of North Dakota
See: HOK. 2014. The Science of learning: Designing the STEM learning facilities of the future.
re-imagining the quad
SCIENCE*, ENGINEERING & EDUCATION (SEE) QUAD
*Science = Natural Sciences & Social Sciences
Collaborative & Applied Arts Center
•
Home to Theatre, Music, and Art & Design
•
Integrate formal/informal collaborative learning spaces
•
Include studio teaching and creative activity spaces
•
Facilitate interdisciplinarity
•
Integrated faculty creative activity labs
•
Enhance cross-college collaborations & meeting needs for the State of North Dakota
•
Provide secure and temperature controlled storage space for UND Arts Collection
• Comments & questions?
• Ideas and suggestions welcome before
January 29, 2016