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5. Finance, Planning & Management ($200) • At the last WASC site visit, it was in the “red,” now it can be described as “balanced”

6. Finance, Planning & Management ($200) • What is the CDU budget? • Over the past two years, the University restructured and reduced expenses by approximately $10 million through reductions in force, lowering of salary levels, and other measures. These actions more appropriately aligned the institution’s costs with revenues, and resulted in achieving break-even performance during the first half of calendar year 2010, and provided the basis for a balanced budget for FY 2011

7. Finance, Planning & Management ($400) • This $10,000,000 in funds helps reduce debt on the Life Science Research and Nursing Education Building

8. Finance, Planning & Management ($400) • What is State of California, Proposition 1D funds? • In November 2010, $10 million in Proposition 1D funding was received and applied to debt principal and held in reserve to cover future debt payments. • It also convinced the bank to allow the nursing students to begin using the building for classes. 70 nursing students are now training there.

9. Finance, Planning & Management ($600) • CDU completed this in December 2010, in 160 days. Less than half the time taken in the prior year.

10. Finance, Planning & Management ($600) • What is an unqualified financial audit? • WASC expressed concern that the last financial audit took nearly a year to complete. The 2009-2010 audit of the University Financial Statements was completed in 1/2 the time, and 1/2 the cost of the previous years audit. • An “Unqualified” audit means that the auditor feels the company followed all accounting rules appropriately and that the financial reports are an accurate representation of the company's financial condition.

11. Finance, Planning & Management ($800) • To aid in data-driven management, the Finance department has developed these

12. Finance, Planning & Management ($800) • What is a Monthly Expense Report? • Finance now has systems in place to allow timely reporting of account status and budget variance, reports that were not available at the time of the last WASC site visit.

13. Finance, Planning & Management ($1000) • Used to inform management and decision making processes, this is found in a database called “Great Plains”

14. Finance, Planning & Management ($1000) • What is financial data? • Management data and financial information were collected and used to inform academic program review and redirect resources to high-priority programs.

15. Communication ($200) • Open forums, faculty forums, Financial sustainability series, weekly newsletter, Staff /Management Council meetings, CDU WASC Accreditation web page

16. Communication ($200) • What are examples of communication modes used on campus?

17. Communication ($400) • This was created to facilitate information exchange related to WASC accreditation

18. Communication ($400) • What is the CDU WASC accreditation web page? • All reports submitted to WASC, and action letters from WASC, are on the CDU web site: • http://www.cdrewu.edu/about-cdu/wasc

19. Communication ($600) • University Strategic Plan • Academic Plan • Financial Sustainability Business Plan • Facilities Master Plan

20. Communication ($600) • What have been formalized and published to guide decision making at CDU? • WASC required that these plans be in place to facilitate evidence based decision making.

21. Communication ($800) • These surveys provide evidence of the changes in communication at CDU

22. Communication ($800) • What are the CDU Communications Survey and Campus Climate Survey? • In August 2010, the first, “CDU Communications Survey,” asked the campus community about preferred modes of communication and topics that should be addressed. Many of the suggestions have been enacted (e.g. forums, newsletter). The second survey, the “Campus Climate Survey,” asked CDU faculty and staff to assess changes in their perceptions regarding issues of leadership and fear of retaliation. • Relative to the 2009 WASC visit, over 90 percent of respondents to the campus climate survey described the climate as more secure, with significantly less fear of retribution, and more open communication

23. Communication ($1000) • The accreditation process requires that this be open and proactive

24. Communication ($1000) • What is CDU’s communication with WASC? • WASC and CDU developed a strategy to provide open communication institution-wide and put in place systems where the University could receive real-time feedback on critical issues. Furthermore, CDU has opened communication institution-wide and established systems where the university community could receive real-time feedback on critical WASC issues.

25. Leadership ($200) • Formed in October 2010, this committee includes faculty, staff, student, and external partner representatives

26. Leadership ($200) • What is the presidential search committee? • On October 13, 2010, the board of trustees announced the formation of a presidential search committee, chaired by Dr. Hopper. The president’s job description and committee membership were formulated after extensive discussions with representatives of the search firm, Spencer Stuart; campus representatives at all levels; external partners; and friends of the University.

27. Leadership ($400) • This office was created to reaffirm a commitment to academia at CDU.

28. Leadership ($400) • What is the Provost? • CDU created the Office of the Provost to reaffirm a commitment to academia, establish an administrative focus on academic freedom and accountability, and standardize and consolidate policies and procedures across the colleges and school.

29. Leadership ($600) • Since starting in September 2009, this group has facilitated a $5 million grant from The California Endowment, and the release of $10 million from the State of California.

30. Leadership ($600) • What is the CDU Board of Trustees? • Chair – M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S., Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Denver • Vice Chair – Cornelius Hopper, M.D., Vice President for Health Affairs, Emeritus, University of California • Diana M. Bontá, R.N., Dr.PH., Vice President, Public Affairs for Kaiser Permanente Southern California • Ngozi Chukwu, CDU/UCLA Medical Education Program, Student Representative • Patrick T. Dowling, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director Professor, UCLA and Chair, UCLA Dept. of Family Medicine • Vidya Kaushik, Emeritus Professor, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Faculty Representative • Andrew B. Leeka, M.B.A., M.P.H., President and COO, Good Samaritan Hospital • James Lott, M.B.A., Executive Vice President, Hospital Association of Southern California • Marvin O’Quinn, M.P.H., Executive Vice President and COO, Catholic Healthcare West • Thomas M. Priselac, M.P.H., President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System • Carmen A. Puliafito, M.D., Dean, Keck School of Medicine of USC • Eugene Washington, M.D., Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences and Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

31. Leadership ($800) • This group, established in February 2010, consists of the leaders of the College of Medicine, College of Science and Health, and the Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing

32. Leadership ($800) • What is the Deans Council? • The council and each dean, respectively, report to the Provost. The deans council works closely with the academic senate to develop faculty policies and processes, recently creating and implementing a salary scale and contract for all benefits-eligible faculty.

33. Leadership ($1000) • This Chancellor emeritus of the University of Colorado, Denver was also a Dean at CDU

34. Leadership ($1000) • Who is M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S .? • The newly elected chair of the board of trustees, Dr. Wilson served CDU for 15 years as a faculty member, department chair, and dean of the College of Medicine. Dr. Wilson has assumed responsibility for the office of the president with delegated authority by the board of trustees.

35. Faculty Governance ($200) • This reinvigorated faculty body has had two election cycles since the last WASC visit.

36. Faculty Governance ($200) • What is the Academic Senate? • The academic senate legislative council includes elected representatives from COM, COSH, and SON, as well as the chairs of the COM Faculty Executive Board (FEB) and COSH Faculty Association (FA). Faculty governance body elections were also conducted for the FEB and FA, and their standing committees were reactivated.

37. Faculty Governance ($400) • Now explicitly endorsed in a Memorandum of Agreement between faculty and the university administration, this freedom had been a WASC concern.

38. Faculty Governance ($400) • What is Academic Freedom? • Academic freedom is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by students and faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment. • “The University and The Faculty endorse academic freedom and responsibility as essential to attainment of the goal of the unfettered search for knowledge and its free expression. Academic freedom and responsibility are fundamental characteristics of the University environment and are always closely interwoven and at times indistinguishable.”

39. Faculty Governance ($600) • It is an agreement with specific terms between two or more persons or entities in which there is a promise to do something in return for a valuable benefit known as consideration.

40. Faculty Governance ($600) • What is a contract? • Faculty contracts and job duty documents were distributed to faculty in August 2010 and were completed over a three-week period for the top-priority subset of compensated benefits eligible faculty. The process by which the deans and faculty arrived at the contract agreement is a strong example of shared governance in decision making at CDU.

41. Faculty Governance ($800) • This website contains the collected policies of Charles Drew University.

42. Faculty Governance ($800) • What is CDUNET? • CDU has systematically reevaluated institutional policies and procedures in all areas of university affairs and updated or developed new policies to facilitate proper institutional functions and controls.

43. Faculty Governance ($1000) • This faculty development program introduces the “ABCs”

44. Faculty Governance ($1000) • What is Academic Boot Camp? • Faculty development programs have been reinvigorated to further promote faculty stability and academic advancement. Opportunities for development include the ABCs (Laurie Richlin is now teaching the 15th cohort), training relating to assessment (Mary Allen), clinical teaching (Franklin Medio) and mentoring (Ted Friedman et al.), habits for effective managers (Eric Bing), and a wide variety of lectures and seminars and lectures through the AXIS and PRIDE programs.

45. Assessment ($200) • This committee of the Academic Senate oversees the assessment of academic programs at CDU.

46. Assessment ($200) • What is the Academic Program Review Committee? • Future academic program development will occur under the auspices of the university academic program review committee, with related budgetary analysis as part of the committee’s deliberations. • Chaired by Victor Chaban, PhD, the committee grew out of the CDU-WASC Group reviewing the Assessment of Student Learning and Student Success and University Endeavors

47. Assessment ($400) • USLOs, PSLOs, CSLOs

48. Assessment ($400) • What are University, Program, and Course Student Learning Objectives? • CDU faculty and program directors revised and modified their course and program student learning objectives and aligned the Course, Program, and University Student Learning Outcomes. CDU now has a fully implemented system for development and evaluation of learning outcomes, as required by WASC standards.

49. Assessment ($600) • This is a set of criteria and standards linked to learning objectives that is used to assess a student's performance on papers, projects, essays, and other assignments.

50. Assessment ($600) • What is a rubric? • CDU Faculty members have developed rubrics for assessing students’ performance in term papers and presentations, and samples of student work at varying levels are kept in each program’s resource files.