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The Year in Review

• Dr. Jeremy Haefner

The Year in Review

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs May 2009

Year in Re ie Roadmap Year in Review Roadmap

• The Big Picture
• The 8 Priorities
• The Initiatives
• Spotlight:

– “Greater Expectations” – Promotion and Tenure Promotion and Tenure

• Year Ahead
• Discussion

The Big Picture The Big Picture

RIT’s Strategic Vision RIT s Strategic Vision

• What: Achieve a more competitive
• What: Achieve a more competitive

position as a (inter-) national university

• Why: More choices of students, more

y , support from alumni, more competitive position How: Reach out to alumni attract

• How: Reach out to alumni, attract

students, build research, creative, and innovation culture

Alignment With RIT Mission

• Offer: broad range of career-oriented

educational programs

• Produce: innovative and creative graduates
• Prepare: Careers in a global society

How Does Academic Affairs How Does Academic Affairs Help RIT Achieve This Vision?

• Academic

excellence

• Experiential learning leader

– Co-op

• Helping campus

achieve the goals

– Undergraduate research – Innovation and project-based learning

• Advancing 8

priorities through key initiatives

learning – International education – Community learning

key initiatives

Community learning

The 8 Priorities The 8 Priorities

P i iti I tit t G l A hi t M Priorities Institute Goals; Achievement Measures Student Success Increase persistence and graduation rates Diversity & Inclusivity Increase AALANA and women student and faculty percentages Research, Scholarship, & Creative Works Increase campus scholarship and research, particularly sponsored research Innovation Provide innovation opportunities for students International Education Provide global education experience Academic Operations Support for the academic programs; budget, space, communication, shared governance Academic Program Success Ensure strong accreditation; new program development, program review, support for general education Faculty Success Clarify promotion and tenure policies; workload; support

Advancing the Priorities Advancing the Priorities Through

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Academic Affairs Academic Affairs Initiatives Initiatives

P i it I iti ti St t Priority Initiative Status Student Success

• Student Success/Retention taskforce
• Evaluate learning communities

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• Action plan to be posted

Completed; report posted

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d f ll ll Success

• Develop University Studies

Director hired; fall roll out Diversity &

• Individual faculty mentoring
• AALANA Student Success taskforce
• Current Provost focus
• Action plan to be posted

Inclusivity

• Support AALANA and women

faculty recruitment 60% of new hires women, 20% AALANA Research

• Develop plan to allow faculty more

Plan developed; budget Research, Scholarship & Creative Work e e op p a

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research and scholarship time

• Develop campus‐wide

undergraduate research program a de e oped; budge requested Director, Undergrad Research hired g p g

Priority Initiative Status Priority Initiative Status Innovation

• Develop program for Student

Innovation Center

• Develop plan for curriculum in support

Plan developed, Director hired Inventory completed

• Develop plan for curriculum in support
• f innovation theme

Inventory completed Building open International

• Study Abroad ‘Obstacles’ study

Completed; posted Education

• Strategic Plan
• Consultant hired
• Consider new RIT calendars
• Develop Academic Affairs space
• Continuing

Completed; Academic Operations Develop Academic Affairs space planning process

• Develop Provost Communication Plan
• Develop shared budget process

Completed; announcement soon Completed Completed p g p p

Priority Initiative Status Priority Initiative Status

• Develop comprehensive program audit, review

and evaluation plan

• Develop expanded summer program
• Audit completed;

post to web Completed; see web Academic Program Success Develop expanded summer program

• Reframe Honors Program
• Hire new Honors Director
• General Education Learning Outcomes

I l t Middl St t G l Ed ti Completed; see web

• In process for AY10
• Announcement soon
• At AS

Di t hi d

• Implement Middle States General Education

assessment recommendations

• Discuss new General Education models
• Deliver Middle States response letter

Director hired; standing committee

• Planning

Completed p

• Increase RIT summer programming
• Hire Assist Provost for Undergrad Education;
• versee institution‐wide programs
• Launch ‘Greater Expectation’ Tiger Team

p On the way!

• Announcement soon
• In process
• Launch Greater Expectation Tiger Team
• In process

Priority Initiative Status Priority Initiative Status

Faculty Success

• Develop faculty mentoring system; will seek faculty

associates for mentoring; need network of mentors

• Implement P & T policies and practices
• Currently planning for

AY 10;

• In process

Success Implement P & T policies and practices

• Develop ‘Emerging Leaders’ program
• Address workload ‘gap’

R i ti t f ll f li d In process

• In process
• In process; request in

system; W k ith A d i

• Review promotion to full professor policy and

process

• Build community of faculty; review policy around

lecturers, instructors, adjuncts

• Work with Academic

Senate, deans

• Work with deans,

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Spotlight: Spotlight:

• “Greater Expectations”

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• Promotion and Tenure

“Greater Expectations”

AAC&U “G t E t ti ” AAC&U: “Greater Expectations”

• Greater Expectations, a major

Greater Expectations, a major initiative of AAC&U

• Identified innovative models

Identified innovative models that improve campus practices and learning for all g undergraduate students, and advocated for a comprehensive h t f approach to reform

“Greater Expectations” Institute Greater Expectations Institute

• Campuses send teams

p to a summer institute at the University of Vermont in June

• Teams develop plans

June 17-21, 2009 Dudley H. Davis Student Center, University of Vermont

p p and bring back to campus for vetting and

University of Vermont

implementation

RIT’s GE Project Scope RIT s GE Project Scope

Devise a cohesive framework and action plan

Maximize RIT student learning and engagement – Maximize RIT student learning and engagement – Integration of RIT’s General Education outcomes and curriculum first year experience innovation and curriculum, first year experience, innovation curriculum, learning communities, undergraduate research opportunities, and summer book program – Advance the RIT vision: “RIT will lead higher education in preparing students for innovative, creative and successful careers in a global society.”

RIT GE Project Goals RIT GE Project Goals

• Integrate in a systemic, cohesive and intentional

manner the programs that support student learning and engagement; P id t d t ith l it f

• Provide students with clarity of purpose,

intentionality and direction for the undergraduate education experience; and education experience; and

• Establish a unique and excellent undergraduate

experience in keeping with RIT’s vision of an experience in keeping with RIT s vision of an innovation university.

The RIT Greater Expectations Tiger Team The RIT Greater Expectations Tiger Team

• Stephanie Bauschard -

Residence Life

• Eileen Feeney Bushnell -

CIAS Residence Life

• Lisa Bodenstedt - FYE
• Nicole Boulais - Student

CIAS

• Joe Geigel - GCCIS
• Neil Hair - SCB

Affairs

• Teraisa Chloros - Student

Di k D littl COS

• Chris Kray - CLA
• Jacquie Mozrall - KGCOE
• Dick Doolittle - COS
• Mike Eastman - CAST
• David Mullaney - Student
• Linda Rubel - NTID

Promotion and Tenure Promotion and Tenure

• E5.0 Revisions: 3rd year review, external

y , letters, Statement of Expectations

• Provost’s observations
• Challenge: clarify and improve

E5 0 Revisions: 3rd Year Review E5.0 Revisions: 3 Year Review

• What: Provide comprehensive review for

meaningful feedback to candidate

– Includes feedback from colleagues, students, chair dean and pro ost chair, dean and provost – Includes minimum of 2 external review letters of scholarship

• When: For faculty hired on or after fall 2009

unless required by college; begins 2011-12 q y g ; g

E5 0 Revisions: External Review E5.0 Revisions: External Review

• What: Provides external validation and

feedback on scholarship and creative work

– Minimum of 4 letters from external reviewers – Tenure committee oversees reviews – 2 suggested from candidate; 2 from tenure committee committee

• When: Beginning fall 2010, tenure reviews

will include external reviews of scholarship will include external reviews of scholarship

E5 0 Revisions: Other E5.0 Revisions: Other

• Allow Provost to assemble chairs of tenure

committees to review cases with disagreement

• Statement of Expectations strengthened;

Deans will make sure candidates have SoE by Fall 2009; collaborative process

Provost’s Observations Provost s Observations

• Key: “demonstrated excellence” for teaching

and scholarship; meritorious contribution to service

– Excellence must be defined by the college – Includes both quantitative and qualitative assessment assessment

• Scholarship, research, creative work: peer

reviewed documented and disseminated reviewed, documented, and disseminated

Provost’s Observations Provost s Observations

• While criteria for promotion and tenure are

set at the college level, consistency and fairness across campus is also a value

• Student evaluation process must be reviewed

– Need to have a core set of consistent and i f l ti meaningful questions – Students do not feel empowered by this process – Taskforce of both faculty and students in AY10 – Taskforce of both faculty and students in AY10

Provost’s Observations Provost s Observations

4 M’s: Multiple means of measuring teaching effectiveness is a must!

– Student evaluations – Chair evaluations – Peer evaluations Student advising graduate supervision evaluation – Student advising, graduate supervision evaluation – Curriculum and syllabus development – Classroom enhancement – online, office hours Classroom enhancement

• nline, office hours

Provost’s Observations Provost s Observations

Written meaningful feedback to the faculty member can be improved

– Annual reviews vary considerably – Progress to tenure statement often lacks helpful direction for improvement – Committee letters: ‘promote or undermine’ versus Committee letters: promote or undermine versus ‘objective evaluation’ – Letters must address the demonstration of excellence based on college norms and criteria

Challenge: Clarify & Improve Challenge: Clarify & Improve

• Implement policy revisions by insuring

complete process implementation

• Insure Statement of Expectations for tenure
• All colleges review/establish ‘College norm

and criteria for Promotion and Tenure’

– Guidance for excellence – What work is very highly valued? Highly valued?

Challenge: Clarify & Improve

Must establish an effective faculty mentorship

Challenge: Clarify & Improve

• program. Mentors help

– Candidate understand process – Guide candidate for effective portfolio – Provide candidate for advice on teaching and scholarship scholarship – Include candidate on scholarship projects when possible

Challenge: Clarify & Improve

Workload calibration needed

Challenge: Clarify & Improve

– Multiyear project to reduce loads in some colleges as expectations for scholarship rise Budget request for initial stage submitted – Budget request for initial stage submitted – Pre-tenure, TT faculty have most at stake – Solution includes discussion of what is the Solution includes discussion of what is the appropriate balance of tenure track and non- tenure track faculty

The Year Ahead

Surfacing Questions Surfacing Questions

• How will RIT remain and excel as a leader in

experiential learning? experiential learning?

• How do we balance program growth with the

needs of existing programs? needs of existing programs?

• Where are we headed with international

education? educat o

• What does the RGHS – RIT alliance mean for RIT?

Next Steps Next Steps

• Implement the changes and action items from

AY 09 initiatives

• Academic Leadership retreat

– Expanded Academic Innovation Council: Academic Senate Executive Committee, Provost staff deans interested VPs staff, deans, interested VPs

Discussion?