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UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO BOARD OF TRUSTEES. ACADEMIC and STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Dr. Rosemary R. Haggett Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs March 23, 2008. The Learning Alliance Strategic Assessment College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).

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UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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  1. UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACADEMIC and STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Dr. Rosemary R. Haggett Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs March 23, 2008

  2. The Learning Alliance Strategic Assessment College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) • Summary of narrative resulting from the Roundtable discussions • Report of benchmarking study • Number of CAS faculty in professorial ranks • CAS percentage of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees granted • HS GPA of CAS freshmen, CAS retention and graduation rates • Instructional productivity

  3. Peer Sets • Ohio Peer Set: Bowling Green, U Cincinnati, Kent State, Miami U, Ohio U, Wright State • Aspirational Peer Set: U Kentucky, U Louisville, SUNY Buffalo, U Pittsburgh, U South Carolina-Columbia • Extended Peer Set: Bowling Green, Kent State, Ohio U, U Colorado-Denver, U Kentucky, U Missouri- Kansas City, U North Texas, U South Carolina –Columbia, Wright State • “Delaware Study” Peer Set

  4. Biological Sciences* Biological Sciences/Ecology Track* Chemistry* Economics English Literature English as a Second Language Foreign Languages - French - German -Spanish Geography Geology History* Liberal Arts Mathematics* Music Philosophy Physics* Political Science Psychology - Clinical/Experimental* Public Administration Sociology Spatially Integrated Social Sciences* CAS Master’s and Doctoral Degrees (doctoral degrees indicated by *)

  5. Summary of Benchmarking Results Compared to peers: • UT CAS had fewer tenured/tenure track faculty in Fall 2007. • UT CAS bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees 2003-2007 were a lower percentage of the total degrees granted. • More than the median number of freshman matriculated to CAS in Fall 2008. These students had a lower average HS GPA. • First year retention rate and six-year graduation rate of CAS undergraduates are lower than the median. • Instructional productivity appears to be higher in some disciplines and lower in others, but more analysis is needed.

  6. Summary of Roundtable Discussions • Over-arching ideas • CAS as a hub of the university (all UT undergraduates pass through CAS) • Integrative learning as a hallmark of CAS • Five action areas of focus

  7. Action Areas of Focus • Reconceive the definition of scholarship • Adopt a broader and more balanced definition of scholarly achievement among faculty • Reward the scholarship of teaching and the scholarship of engagement as well as research in tenure and promotion

  8. Action Areas of Focus 2. Recast the curriculum, for both the major and general education • Undertake a serious, far-reaching consideration of what CAS teaches • Teach different things and teach differently • Create increased flexibility in the curriculum • Develop interdisciplinary themes

  9. Action Areas of Focus 3. Rethink and revise teaching and advising • Explore 21st century university teaching methods that help students learn more effectively • Improve student advising to ensure programs of study are appropriate to student needs, interests and abilities • Both actions will increase the number of students who complete their degrees.

  10. Action Areas of Focus 4. Devise new approaches to the use of space • Reconsider space and equipment needs in light of new modes of teaching and learning • Make more effective use of available space • Identify opportunities for shared use of common space and development of synergies • Student retention will increase through coherency of program and function

  11. Action Areas of Focus 5. Strengthen graduate education • Strengthen existing CAS graduate programs and create new novel graduate programs • Provide mentorship and training to the next generation of knowledge producer • Provide graduate students with foundations to succeed • All will increase graduate degree production

  12. Pursuing the Future “The challenge is to pursue a shared vision that allows the College to achieve distinction, become a destination of choice for more undergraduate and graduate students, and to provide them with the knowledge and learning tools to success in the decade ahead.” This vision will be attained through broad participation of CAS faculty in the five areas identified by the Roundtable participants.

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