Deans’ Council Meeting Agenda
September 10, 2013
2:00 - 3:00 pm
CPD workshop on PDP's
3:00 - 4:00 pm - Regular meeting
South Conference Room
UPDATES
1.
MAP - review tasks & update grid
Review tasks on the timeline for this academic year.
2.
International Day - 9/23/13 - status
Still have available session times;
3.
Academic planning future programs - what is under consideration?
Share list with Patrick for SEMP.
AGENDA ITEMS
1. Academic Open House – James Parker, guest
How to better sell BSU as a small, personalized campus; next week, host 300 students. James
would like faculty volunteers so students can meet with faculty one on one for 15 minutes. Follow
through to personalized advising sessions at AAR session. More, smaller sessions. 100 students
per session. James is asking for Dean’s input on faculty participants.
2. SEMP Task – capacity updates due next week – carry over item – Martin
Meets every Tuesday, would like to get this info to the task force soon.
3. Oversight of curriculum process – Martin
Has been brought to faculty Senate, will be working on improving the process so programs have all
required signatures, even across colleges. Curriculum committee is currently searching for a chair.
4. Update Academic Affairs groups – Martin
list of group memberships; Martin asked for review and let him know if anyone is missing.
5. Program assessment – Patrick
Reminder to continue to work with departments to submit needed materials to stay current. If
departments need assistance, let Patrick know. Randy and Dave are also available to help as
assessment coordinators.
6. Equipment allocations – Patrick
Attachment 1
Provided FTE base allocation dollar amounts based on 12-13 numbers. Money provided to deans to
allocation as appropriate. Interest in seeing actual expenditures by program over past few years;
some programs do have need for more dollars, based on more than just FTE. Should
7. Load Reports for Fall – Patrick
Doug will be working on load reports with Patrick. Will include reassigned time and may look a little
different than in previous year.
8. Adjunct pay & assessment – Patrick
Discussion about adjunct faculty and course level (vs. program level) assessment; more work for
adjunct faculty with larger courses. Is this part of their course compensation? Need a response at
next meet and confer. Deans do have the ability to negotiate a higher per credit rate for adjunct
faculty up front.
9. Who is the convener of the Professional Improvement Grant Committee? – Patrick
Jeanine; will work with the faculty committee.
10. Other
Space: discussion of scheduling evening courses; would this change our space utilization rate? Use
of specialized space (labs, field house) – better use? Online growth has also led to decrease in
scheduled classrooms. Centralized scheduling – would this help? What counts in terms of
scheduling – does tutoring, prep time work if it’s schedule, and how does it need to be in the
schedule to count?
Perception that we are pushing for growth in online courses and programs: Based on 80/20 funding
model, FasTrack secondary initiative? Also a historical perception at the University and growth of
online courses in the summer. Could we do a brown bag session on this to discuss the reality vs
perception? Or a session on options for hybrid course configurations?
SCHEDULED DEANS MEETINGS - SEPTEMBER 2013 - JULY 2014
October 1, 2013 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
October 15, 2013
October 29, 2013
November 5, 2013 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
November 12, 2013
November 19, 2013
December 3, 2013 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
December 10, 2013
December 17, 2013
December 31, 2013
January 7, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
January 14, 2014
January 21, 2014
February 4, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
February 11, 2014
February 18, 2014
March 4, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
March 11, 2014
March 18, 2014
April 1, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
April 8, 2014
April 15, 2014
April 29, 2014
May 6, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
May 13, 2014
May 20, 2014
June 3, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
June 10, 2014
June 17, 2014
July 1, 2014 - Doug Olney attending on Institutional Research
July 8, 2014
July 15, 2014
July 29, 2014