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Academic Affairs Start Up and Update

Academic Affairs Start Up and Update. August 20, 2013. Focus Areas of Master Academic Plan. Financial sustainability Internationally competitive Distinctively BSU Organizational alignment. Master Academic Plan & Work Plan: Copies on AA website. Financially Sustainable.

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Academic Affairs Start Up and Update

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  1. Academic Affairs Start Up and Update August 20, 2013

  2. Focus Areas of Master Academic Plan • Financial sustainability • Internationally competitive • Distinctively BSU • Organizational alignment

  3. Master Academic Plan & Work Plan: Copies on AA website

  4. Financially Sustainable • Distance programs on 80/20 revenue sharing model • Nursing at Anoka Ramsey and Century Colleges • Mass Comm…online marketing communications • Social Work…blended online format • MS Special Education • MBA starting fall 2014 • MS Special Education online…in review • RCM budget planning exploration for CBTC and Nursing • 6new faculty lines for growth • Program indicator guidelines

  5. Distinctively BSU • Residential experience is core and must be exceptional • Residential Life and our partnership with Student Development • Housing changes for students • Required on campus stay for freshmen • Construction • Visibility on campus and strengthening campus community • Student/faculty research • Integration with the Bemidji Community: Steward of Place

  6. Distinctively BSU • High quality distance programming: Current degree completion programs • Accounting • Business Administration • Criminal Justice • Applied Engineering • Technology Management • Marketing/Communications • MS Education • MS Special Education

  7. Distinctively BSU • Current blended format or face to face and online programs: • Nursing RN-BSN (Anoka Ramsey, Century, Lake Superior) • DLiTE program in Elementary Education • FastTrack for Secondary Education • Social Work

  8. Distinctively BSU • New faculty grant $75K • Course redesign grant $96K • Center for Community Partnerships • Moving into the city and vice versa • Tally Gallery • BCT and Bangsberg

  9. Internationally Competitive • 17 international partners for exchanges and semester abroad opportunities for students (updates coming) • Switzerland • Norway • Sweden • Finland • Denmark • Germany • England • Iceland • Canada • South Korea • Malaysia • China (6) • Site coordinators needed

  10. Internationally Competitive: Study Abroad Still Available • Euro Spring • Sino Summer • Argentina • Etc…all coordinated with IPC and including International Studies Committee

  11. Internationally Competitive • Two visiting scholars at BSU • Sergei Kukharenkofrom Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Russia • Ping Wan from Liaoning University, China • WFU student ambassadors (6) coming this week • Videoconferencing classroom in Bridgeman ready • Global Understanding non-credit certificate for students ready • Intensive English immersion summer camp begun and will expand • CIEE summer seminars and faculty/staff abroad

  12. Internationally Competitive: Faculty Opportunity for International Teaching/Research Abroad • One BSU faculty per semester at Weifang U. • Teach short courses/seminars <= 4 hours per week and conduct research . • WFU will identify local Chinese faculty members to assist BSU professors on research topics relevant to WFU and BSU. • Round trip airfare, local accommodations, and office space provided. • Stipend of $1000 per month provided. Contact: Sanjeev Phukan (sphukan@bemidjistate.edu) or Martin Tadlock (mtadlock@bemidjistate.edu)

  13. Internationally Competitive: 1-2-1 Programs • AASCU/CEAIE consortium • 3 Universities in S. China • Looking for programs here to pilot • Dual degree • Virgil Bakken

  14. International Experiences Day • 30 minute presentations, individual or group, from students, faculty, and staff who have participated in study abroad/semester abroad programs, internships/working/teaching abroad opportunities, humanitarian and/or volunteer international experiences, or any other international experience directly related to BSU or at any of our partner colleges. • Contact: Jamie Bergerson by emailing her at: jbergerson@bemidjistate.edu Jamie will organize the agenda/program. We will send you drafts of the program as it evolves, and you will be contacted by Jamie to confirm the time and place for your presentation.

  15. Organizational and Space • Sanford • Memorial • Decker • Bensen • Student residential halls • Long range for Hagg-Sauer

  16. Challenge: HLC Assessment • HLC assessment follow through in some programs • Up to date: • Biology • Mathematics • Sociology • Psychology • Sports Management • Business • Accounting • Nursing • Social Work • Education • Other programs…Friday August 23 at 9:30 a.m. • May be last year in HLC Academy on Student Learning • Future considerations and link to resources

  17. Challenge: Liberal Education Core • Liberal Education core the is distinctively BSU, interdisciplinary and owned by a core group of faculty

  18. Challenge: Faculty/Staff Roles and Building Community • Technology and competing demands • On campus or off campus focus of faculty/staff? • Online or residential life for students when 21% are not on campus? • Distance learners who never come to BSU? • Engagement of faculty/staff in local community when teaching online? • Mission of the university as a regional steward when 21% of students are not in Bemidji? • Building community when our faculty profile is: • 98 faculty using D2L to enhance courses • 22 more faculty using D2L to teach online • Faculty leadership

  19. Invitation to Address Challenges • Address program assessment plan currency and follow through in departments • Liberal Education Committee: Recommend to Academic Affairsby January 2014 a new liberal education core that is distinctively BSU, interdisciplinary, and owned by a core group of faculty • Attend dialogue sessions on the role of faculty and on what BSU should be in the information/technological age • Invite family/partners to all events possible and take care of our people

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