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The Heartbeat of the Crescent City

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Preliminary Plan for the University of New Orleans October 2014

The Heartbeat of the Crescent City

UNO Wise Plan

The Preliminary WISE Plan for the University of New Orleans is based upon input from the UNO WISE Council, comprised of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, and Deans—with assistance from the UL System Vice President for External Affairs

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UNO Wise Plan

• Focus on a small number of high

demand areas of emphasis

• Align with the priorities of the

State’s Master Plan for Research

• Implement five initiatives

1. Advancing High Demand Careers 2. Research Innovation for National Competitiveness 3. Learning Environment and Technology Initiative 4. Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty 5. Academic Capacity Expansion

UNO’s Plan in a Nutshell

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UNO Wise Plan

• Accounting
• Computer Science
• Engineering (all disciplines)

UNO’s High Demand Academic Areas of Emphasis

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UNO Wise Plan UNO’s High Demand Academic Areas of Emphasis

Undergraduate Enrollments

Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013 Fall 2014 Accounting 261 301 245 324 303 Computer Science 195 230 293 207 251 Engineering 1064 1011 944 840 903

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UNO Wise Plan UNO’s High Demand Academic Areas of Emphasis

Undergraduate Completers

Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013 Fall 2014 Accounting 75 94 97 83 89 Computer Science 25 12 24 28 16 Engineering 102 115 110 148 139

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UNO Wise Plan

• UNO’s Five Initiatives
• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• 2. Research Innovation for National Competitiveness
• 3. Learning Environment and Technology Initiative
• 4. Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty
• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion

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• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• Increase pipeline of students and support
• f academic programs in high need, high

demand careers (UNO’s areas of emphasis)

• Provide greater access to educational
• pportunities for students seeking HD

careers through:

– Structured curricular pathways – Academic support

• Tutoring
• Mentoring
• Supplemental instruction

– Scholarships – Increased collaborations with academic partners and industry

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• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• Hire and resource a dedicated “High Demand Career

Coordinator” to identify, recruit, and accelerate the career paths of (primarily midstream) students interested in completing a program leading to high demand jobs

• High Demand Career Coordinator would focus on:

– Recruiting academically disengaged midstream students – Facilitating transfer students – Developing 2 + 2 programs – Developing 3 + 1 programs – Developing high school-to-university pathway programs – Coordinating critical industry involvement

• Advice on curricular evolution
• Identification of industry employees needing degree completion

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• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• Managed by the Provost/VPAA, in consultation with the Vice

President for Enrollment Management and Deans

• ≈24% of year 1 allocation
• Return on investment comes through increased enrollment in

and graduation from programs feeding high need, high demand jobs

The Heartbeat of the Crescent City

UNO Wise Plan

• UNO’s Five Initiatives
• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• 2. Research Innovation for National Competitiveness
• 3. Learning Environment and Technology Initiative
• 4. Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty
• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion

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• 2. Research Innovation for

National Competitiveness

–Focused investments to promote research within Louisiana’s high- priority research areas

• Infrastructure Expansion Program

– Research equipment/laboratory construction/upgrades

• Leveraging External Funding Program

– Seed funding to leverage external grants and contracts – Matching (when required) for external grants and contracts

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• 2. Research Innovation for

National Competitiveness

• Leverages current research strengths at UNO

in support of Louisiana’s most pressing research needs as identified by the state’s Master Plan for Research Advisor Committee (MPRAC)

– Advanced Materials and Manufacturing – Clean Technology and Energy – Coastal and Water Management – Digital Media and Enterprise Software – Life Sciences and Bioengineering

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• 2. Research Innovation for

National Competitiveness

• MPRAC Area

– Advanced Materials and Manufacturing – Clean Technology and Energy – Coastal and Water Management – Digital Media and Enterprise Software – Life Sciences and Bioengineering

• UNO Research

– Engineering (Mechanical and Marine), AMRI, Chemistry, Physics – Engineering (Electrical and Mechanical) – Coastal Engineering and Coastal Sciences, PIES, CHART, UNOTI, Marine Engineering – Computer Science, Information Assurance, Digital Film – Chemistry, Biology, Bioinformatics, Neuroscience

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• 2. Research Innovation for

National Competitiveness

• Managed by Vice President for Research and Economic

Development, in consultation with Provost/VPAA and Deans

• ≈13% of year 1 allocation for Infrastructure Expansion Program
• ≈12% of year 1 allocation for Leveraging External Funding
• Return on investment comes through increased research

productivity in pursuit of the 2020 goal to exceed $50M in annual research expenditures

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UNO Wise Plan

• UNO’s Five Initiatives
• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• 2. Research Innovation for National Competitiveness
• 3. Learning Environment and Technology Initiative
• 4. Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty
• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion

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• 3. Learning Environment

and Technology Initiative

• Modernize instructional

laboratories and teaching technology in key fields associated with high demand jobs

– College-based teaching and computing laboratories for key areas

• Math Teaching Laboratory
• Computer Science Software Engineering

Laboratory

• Engineering Computing Laboratory

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• 3. Learning Environment

and Technology Initiative

• Managed by the Provost/VPAA in

consultation with the Deans

• ≈15% of year 1 allocation
• Return on investment comes through:

– Increased attractiveness of the programs to current and potential students (thus stimulating recruitment and enrollment) – Promotion of academic progression among current students (thus stimulating completion rates/times) – Improvement in competitiveness of graduates who then enter the high demand job market

The Heartbeat of the Crescent City

UNO Wise Plan

• UNO’s Five Initiatives
• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• 2. Research Innovation for National Competitiveness
• 3. Learning Environment and Technology Initiative
• 4. Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty
• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion

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• 4. Retaining High Need,

High Demand Faculty

• Proactive Retention Initiative

– Strategic salary adjustments to faculty in selected high demand disciplinary categories

• Designed to bring salary levels that are far below

market closer to market levels and thereby retain quality faculty

– Although needed in a variety of areas across the university, this initiative will be most effective if the first year’s proactive retention initiative is focused in 1-2 areas of greatest need

• Computer Science and Accounting are the two areas

chosen for the first year’s investment

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• 4. Retaining High Need,

High Demand Faculty

• Managed by the Provost/VPAA in consultation with the Vice

President for Research and Economic Development and Deans

• ≈13% of year 1 allocation
• Return on investment comes via the sustained basis upon

which to grow the academic and research capacity when the strongest faculty are retained

– Retaining strong faculty is virtually always more fiscally responsible than attempting to replace and rebuild that strength through new hires – Retaining high quality faculty further enhances UNO’s ability to recruit quality students and additional high quality faculty to serve those students

The Heartbeat of the Crescent City

UNO Wise Plan

• UNO’s Five Initiatives
• 1. Advancing High Demand Careers
• 2. Research Innovation for National Competitiveness
• 3. Learning Environment and Technology Initiative
• 4. Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty
• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion

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• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion
• Focused investments to build instructional

capacity within high demand disciplines

• Based upon emergent needs throughout the

year, UNO must be able to respond rapidly with targeted investments

– Recruitment successes yielding influxes of high- priority students who need to matriculate rapidly – Market opportunities for rapid expansion – Unforeseen personnel losses and/or needs for counter-offers to retain capacity

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• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion
• Although, by definition, investments in

response to emergent growth cannot be explicitly defined in advance, the categories

• f investments in any given year are expected

to include:

– Professors of Practice hiring (primary focus of year 1) – Contingency Investments

• Instructor/Adjunct hiring to open new sections of high demand

classes

• Emergency retention packages to prevent instructional capacity

loss in high demand areas

• Targeted professional development to ensure that existing

faculty are adequately prepared to meet the students’ needs

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• 5. Academic Capacity Expansion
• Managed by the Provost/VPAA in consultation with the Vice

President for Research and Economic Development and Deans

• ≈15% of year 1 allocation
• Return on investment comes by ensuring that the students in

high need, high demand fields can matriculate immediately and effectively, thereby positively impacting, enrollment, retention, throughput, graduation rate, and time to degree

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Match and Sources

Already in place for FY2015:

– GE Capital partnership

• $980,000

– Laitram partnership

• $102,000 (current estimate)

– Schlumberger donation

• $500,000

– Howard Hughes Medical Institute award

• $300,000

– Entergy research contracts

• $295,000

– Corporately donated accounting scholarships

• $92,000

– Latter & Blum donation in support of Coastal Science and Coastal Engineering

• $100,000

…and of course, we will strive for more! Minimum GRAND TOTAL of MATCH: $2,369,000

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UNO WISE Plan

Advancing High Demand Careers 24% Research Innovation for National Competitiveness 25% Retaining High Need, High Demand Faculty Initiative 13% Learning Enviroment and Technology Initiative 15% Academic Capacity Expansion Initiative 23%

Summary of Preliminary Plan

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