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Dare to Make a Difference Academic Division Plan-of-Work Year 1: 2009-2010

Dare to Make a Difference Academic Division Plan-of-Work Year 1: 2009-2010. Agenda Welcome/overview Unit Introductions Review of Priorities Shaping Learning 1-4 Break (silent conversation) Sustaining the University 5-9 Celebration . Strategic Direction. Dare to Make A Difference.

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Dare to Make a Difference Academic Division Plan-of-Work Year 1: 2009-2010

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  1. Dare to Make a Difference Academic Division Plan-of-Work Year 1: 2009-2010

  2. Agenda • Welcome/overview • Unit Introductions • Review of Priorities • Shaping Learning 1-4 • Break (silent conversation) • Sustaining the University 5-9 • Celebration

  3. Strategic Direction Dare to Make A Difference • Excellence and innovation in liberal arts and professional education • Internal and external collaborations that provide experiential learning with local impact and global reach • Inspire Butler students, faculty, staff, alumni and trustees to be civic-minded agents of change

  4. Dare to Make a Difference A Five-Year Strategic Plan 2009-2014 Two Institutional Imperatives Nine Strategic Priorities

  5. Dare to Make a DifferenceShaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation.

  6. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1A: Invigorate Butler’s recently-created, interdisciplinary core curriculum and leverage its distinctiveness.

  7. Academic Plan- 1A • Establish administrative leadership for the core curriculum • Finalize the implementation process of the new core curriculum. • Establish a Countdown to Core program for the University • Campus wide faculty involvement, particularly in FYS • Offer number of sections to match student need • ICR • BCR record keeping

  8. Academic Plan- 1A • Establish administrative leadership for the core curriculum, cont. • Allocate appropriate budget • Provide faculty development • Ensure full-loop assessment of the Core

  9. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1B: Maintain assessment of learning outcomes and individual program review to promote increasing quality across all program offerings.

  10. Academic Plan- 1B • Complete individual program reviews for: • Biological Sciences (in progress as of 6/09) • Political Science (in progress as of 6/09) • Mathematics and Actuarial Science • Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures • COB:   Undergraduate Program • COB:   MBA • COB:   MPAcc • JCFA:  Music

  11. Academic Plan- 1B • Program Review training workshop • Admin appraise Reviews and develop action plans • Complete full-loop learning outcomes assessment process for ALL majors (including IDPs) • Assess & address faculty training needs with regard to assessment • Internal grants for programs preparing for self-study.

  12. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1C: Employ comprehensive academic program review to ensure a mission-driven, market-smart program mix and to sustain program quality.

  13. Academic Plan- 1C • Begin transparent, highly collaborative process of comprehensive program review using the QPC Model • Thurs. Sept. 10, 3 p.m. • Thurs. Oct. 8, 3 p.m. (may be changed) • Thurs. Nov. 12, 3 p.m. • Thurs. Dec. 3, 3 p.m. • Ample collaboration, adequate training, and needed data provided • Departmental reports due: August 1, 2010.

  14. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1D: Ensure the sustainability of our existing reputation for excellence in natural, pharmaceutical, and health sciences by investing in the basic academic infrastructures that support these programs.

  15. Academic Plan- 1D • Work collaboratively with VP for Operations and VP for Advancement to advance plans for new or renovated science facilities, as outlined in the new Master Plan. • Prepare for peer audit – Ensure that all existing science instruments, equipment, and lab resources are utilized in ways that match best practices and governmental standards.

  16. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1E: Meet students’ evolving educational needs by developing viable new undergraduate and graduate programs that are consistent with the Butler mission and that capitalize on our strengths.

  17. Academic Plan- 1E • Take deliberate action that results in a convergence of our communication-related programs • Develop template for proposing new academic programs. • Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment for new undergraduate program offerings by College. • Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment for new graduate program offerings by College. • Utilize assessment results to build a division-wide coordinated plan for implementing new programs.

  18. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1F: Establish mechanisms to inspire and support academic innovations and an entrepreneurial spirit.

  19. Academic Plan- 1F • Charge APFID & BIRS Director to review and recommend appropriate changes to current policies and practices for offering existing internal grants for scholarship, creative activity, and international travel to faculty. • Propose and obtain funding for new internal mechanisms designed to inspire and support innovation and entrepreneurialism.

  20. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority One: Encourage academic excellence and innovation. Goal 1G: Deliver high-quality, innovative education to the new generation of digital learners by better understanding tomorrow’s students and serving their technology needs.

  21. Academic Plan- 1G • Charge APSAA & Registrar to work in collaboration with Information Resources to develop a plan to systematically upgrade classroom technology. • Work in collaboration with Information Recourses and the Department of Educational Technology to provide a broad menu of faculty development opportunities supporting the use of technology to enhance teaching effectiveness.

  22. Dare to Make a DifferenceShaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations.

  23. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2A: Link student affairs and student academic support by adopting a developmental approach to co-curricular experiences and academic support programming.

  24. Academic Plan- 2A -1 • Adopt a developmental model for academic advising and providing appropriate training and workload assessment for faculty and staff advisors. • Conduct division-wide gap analysis of current advising practices, compared to developmental advising best practices. • Invite Student Affairs offices to participate in this assessment. • Utilizing gap analysis results, develop a systematic plan for advisor training and an organizational wide evolution toward the developmental model. • Launch initial training, fall 2009

  25. Academic Plan- 2A -2 2. Integrate co-curricular experiences with the Freshman Seminar and encouraging reflection on these experiences through use of student e-portfolios. • Continue e-portfolio training • Invite appropriate Student Affairs, CMA, and other co-curricular representatives to serve on the Core Curriculum committees for BCE, PWB, ICR, etc. • Through collaborations with Student Affairs, CMH, and the Colleges, identify, codify, & distribute listing events that could serve as opportunities for reflection during the FYS

  26. Academic Plan- 2A -3 3. Enhancing collaborations between academic affairs, student affairs, and enrollment management to produce innovative programs for new student orientation, early registration, and developmental programs for subpopulations such as sophomores, first-generation students, high achieving students, and underrepresented populations. • Form collaborative Early Reg workgroup • Pilot revised Early Reg program in Spring 2010 • Registrar & Associate Deans ensure course offerings meet entering students’ needs • Initiate planning process for FYE, reflecting best practices & jointly endorsed by student affairs and academic affairs.

  27. Academic Plan- 2A -3 • Continue collaboration with Student Affairs to provide programming, training, services, and personnel for new student orientation. • Re-invigorate on-going conversations and programming initiatives within workgroups currently focusing on sophomore and first –generation students

  28. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2B: Equip students with the knowledge, skills, and motivation that inspire them to be civic-minded and enable them to lead.

  29. Academic Plan- 2B •  Charge Registrar to work with Student Affairs to develop “Co-curricular Transcript” • Substantially expand the visibility and practice of service learning across the curriculum. • Charge CFV Director to connect with Student Affairs and devise a comprehensive plan to fully infuse shared understandings of vocation, leadership, and service across Academic and Student Affairs programming efforts

  30. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2C: Capture synergies among academic and co-curricular programs and activities designed to enrich the campus experience for high achieving students.

  31. Academic Plan- 2C • Hire Director (then name unit) • Centralize office space and services for the existing Honors Program, Post-Gradate Studies Office, BSI, URC, national scholarships, Phi Beta Kappa, and other national honoraries. • Create dedicated classroom for Honor’s Seminar. • Create a designated three-year plan-of –work for this newly formed, and yet to be named, academic support unit.

  32. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2D: Increase and coordinate programming that explores issues of personal health and safety, decision-making, and social responsibility for students, faculty and staff through collaborations across the University community.

  33. Academic Plan- 2D1 • Fostering collaborations across the university community that support and promote wellness services and programming. • Collaborative action with Butler University Wellness Counsel (BWAC), faculty (COE, CSD, COPHS, & Healthy Horizons), and Student Affairs (Health & Counseling) to: • Evaluate current health & wellness programming • Provide a proposal to increase the wellness offerings, while reducing program redundancy

  34. Academic Plan- 2D2 • Developing programs addressing quality of life issues that enable students to make choices throughout their lives that will enhance their physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. • Charge CFV to work with Student Affairs to assess programming and activities that support quality of life issues for students. • Expand academic programming on these issues as appropriate to deliver a fitting mix of quality of life programming.

  35. Academic Plan- 2D3 3.Creating opportunities for students to develop life skills that better equip them to become responsible, mature, civic-minded adults. These opportunities could include both credit and non-credit courses. • Charge LRC Director to collaborate with Student Affairs and appropriate faculty to propose a set of life skills and other pertinent non-credit courses to be delivered through the existing LRC course designation.

  36. Academic Plan- 2D4 • Fostering educational opportunities for all students to address (domestic) diversity and social justice. • Establish a Diversity across the Curriculum task force comprised of representatives from College, University, and Core curriculum committees. • Charge new DAC to work with faculty to review existing curricular offerings to (a) assess how domestic diversity and social justices currently are infused across the curriculum and (b) make recommendations for programmatic enhancements.

  37. Academic Plan- 2D5 • Exploring options to meet the particular needs of subpopulations such as high-achieving students, athletes, transfer students, domestic students of color, women, men, international students, LGBT, and first-generation college students. • Charge LRC Director to assess workshops targeted for these subpopulations sponsored by the academic division • Collaborate with Student Affairs to fill in gaps of funding, programming, space and resources for these groups.

  38. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2E: Build on important opportunities for student development in leadership, teamwork, and community that the University’s athletic programs consistently provide.

  39. Academic Plan- 2E • Establish priority registration for student athletes during the semester of their sports season.

  40. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2F: Undertake planning for a Learning Commons which brings together facilities, programs, and services of the Library, LRC, and Internship and Career Services.

  41. Academic Plan- 2F • Through Master Plan process, continue discussions on the various Learning Commons options • Identify and propose smaller scale interventions that would support the long-term Learning Commons goals • Explore grant funded opportunities that could support funding this initiative

  42. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Two: Develop, strengthen, and expand creative co-curricular programs that promote student learning, development, retention, and success through campus collaborations. Goal 2G: Attain a freshman to sophomore retention rate of 90% and a six-year graduation rate of 75%.

  43. Academic Plan- 2G • APSAA will re-invigorate the Student Retention Operation Team Committee with a deliberate retention agenda and regular meetings starting Fall of 2009. • Associate Provosts will convene the Associate Deans 2 times per semester to review retention-related reports and address recommendation courses of action that arise from the SROT.

  44. Dare to Make a DifferenceShaping Learning Priority Three: Pursue creative collaborations that result in engaging learning experiences with local impact and national reach.

  45. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Three: Pursue creative collaborations that result in engaging learning experiences with local impact and national reach. Goal 3A: In collaboration with our urban partners, pursue nationally-significant initiatives designed to serve the institutions and citizens of Indianapolis by engaging Butler students, faculty, and staff in meaningful experiential learning and research activities

  46. Academic Plan- 3A • Develop a comprehensive, updated list of experiential programs and activities with urban partners. • Design a rubric to be used to assess the depth, reach, viability, cost, and potential of each of the identified programs. • Develop an initial plan identifying strengths of existing programs, potential for growth, and areas to be cultivated for future programming will be developed.

  47. Academic Plan- 3A • By January 2010, develop a strategic plan for invigorating the internal and external outreach activities of the Center for Urban Ecology. • Obtain external funding for the Jordan College of Fine Arts proposed “Cultural Accelerator” • Develop a sustainability plan for the College of Business’s Butler Business Accelerator and associated programs • Support the successful startup of the School of Journalism’s BU-JOIN initiative.

  48. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Three: Pursue creative collaborations that result in engaging learning experiences with local impact and national reach. Goal 3B: Position Butler as a service-oriented, intellectual, cultural, social, civic and recreational resource of choice for Indianapolis.

  49. Academic Plan- 3B • Form work group, comprised of APs, ADs, and representatives the CCC, the CFV and Internship and Career Services that will collaborate on a regular basis in supporting existing opportunities for the Indianapolis community and identifying possibilities for future consideration.

  50. Dare to Make A Difference Shaping Learning Priority Three: Pursue creative collaborations that result in engaging learning experiences with local impact and national reach. Goal 3C: In collaboration with the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association, IPS, and other city institutions, work actively to ensure that the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood remains one of the most valuable, attractive, vibrant, and safe neighborhoods in the City of Indianapolis.

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