Notes from Administrative Leadership Team
Friday, January 10, 2014
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
CURRENTLY CHANGING – GROUP I:
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Scheduling
Enrollment Management – increasing class size
Faculty Evaluation
Advisement – CLAS/cross campus
Course delivery
FERPA/ADA compliance efforts
Instructor Staffing:
 Curriculum streamlining
 Restructuring of colleges and departments
 Increase in reviewing data
 More data available
 Faculty development in some colleges
 Diversity training
 Student demographics
 Decrease in resources for faculty
 Development
 Increase in social media usage
 Faculty involvement in budget matters
 Athletics
 Honors College
 Doctorate in Nursing
 Collaboration with City of Hammond
 Increase in Veterans and wounded warriors
TO BE CHANGED – GROUP I
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Increase faculty involvement in recruiting events
Food service (expansion needed)
Restructuring of colleges and departments
Faculty evaluation distribution and dissemination (students complete)
Increase in extracurricular activities to establish a more residential campus
Annual evaluations and P&T process
Create a cohort for peer institutions
Improve transfer credit process
Increase collaboration with other Purdue campuses
New processes for accessing student data per FERPA
Increase faculty presence on campus
Better quality and infrastructure for data
Friday classes
Strengthening weak programs
Form a direction for research activity (emphasis on scholarly activity in addition to research
activity)
Increase faculty and student engagement
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Notes from Administrative Leadership Team
Friday, January 10, 2014
CURRENTLY CHANGING – GROUP II:
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Reducing number of programs
Revise curriculum into 4-year program analysis
Update marketing materials
Improving collaboration w/Enrollment Management
Re-engineering advising using data more pro-actively
Using data more proactively
Restructuring Colleges
Improving academic leadership communication & student, faculty, research
Improving alumni tracking
Revisiting
 Budgeting
 Course scheduling
 Space allocation
 Community relations
Redefining university honor’s
Starting 1st doctoral program
Improving support for research proposal
Leveraging technology more effectively
Improving outreach with local industry
Developing hybrid educational opportunities
Multidisciplinary studies degree
TO BE CHANGED – GROUP II
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Re-align resources with needs.
Design budget/resource model to reward expansion and success
Establish metrics for action items
Create more opportunities for faculty –Student social interaction
Develop enrollment forecasting
Reducing WILO – mentality
Develop actionable metrics – dashboards
Sharing data across units
Provide more opportunities to reward faculty and staff excellence
Define excellence and strive aligning our outcomes with external outcomes
Strong alumni involvement in academic processes
Increase research opportunities for student’s quantity and quality research opportunities
Elevate and integrate EXL in programs clarify current status of EXL
Improve quality of adjunct faculty
Collect more data on students while enrolled and when leaving
Transition students to college/major
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Notes from Administrative Leadership Team
Friday, January 10, 2014
CURRENTLY CHANGING – GROUP III
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Cross unit communications amongst all admin units
Cooperation amongst AA units for consistency in policies
Communication between VCAA and Dept Heads & Faculty
Recruitment efforts
Engagement w/faculty in decision making
Enhancing/streamlining programs
Study abroad activities
Growing emphasis and support for International Programs and activities for our students
Advertising
Increasing emphasis on distance learning
Summer plans
Increased class sizes
Reduced frequency of class offerings
More support for inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary research and faculty support
TO BE CHANGED – GROUP III
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Better communications with students (face-to-face, web, etc)
Develop a strategy to make students feel connected to university
Autonomous graduate program
Offer programs beyond this region
All units to engage with community/constituents
Improve the university website
Re-examine our offering and what’s sustainable (continue program analysis)
System-level cooperation for course offerings
Data driven decision making (require accurate data
Scheduling system
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