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Academic Master Plan. Academic Master Plan Update To the College Senate 9-24-2012. Summary of Phase 1 Activities. Fall 2011 Spring 2012 AMP Survey Meetings Presentations Annual Reports Summer 2012 AMP survey Meetings
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Academic Master Plan Academic Master Plan Update To the College Senate 9-24-2012
Summary of Phase 1 Activities • Fall 2011 • Spring 2012 • AMP Survey • Meetings • Presentations • Annual Reports • Summer 2012 • AMP survey • Meetings • Training of AMP Task Force members by ResearchTalk, Inc. on using Atlas Qualitative Data Analysis Software • Analysis of survey responses, meeting notes, and missions and goal statements of all academic programs • Fall 2012 • Analysis of survey responses, meeting notes, and missions and goal statements of all academic programs • Open forums to discuss findings • Senate Presentation and Response (September 24, October 29, December 3) • Final report submitted to Provost December 2012 Academic Master Plan
AMP Survey • 147 total responses • 52 teaching faculty • 80 student • 13 non-teaching faculty • 20 (staff, retiree, other) • Some indicated multiple roles Academic Master Plan
Most Frequent Terms (all respondents) • Administration • Class size, faculty development, course load • Excellent Faculty • Best practices, faculty development, person-person contact, faculty/student interaction • Scholarship • Research, accessible faculty • Collegial • Collaborative, common vision, diversity • Teaching • Focus on academics, high standards and expectations Academic Master Plan
Most Frequent Terms (Teaching Faculty) Academic Master Plan Liberal Arts Diversity Funding Challenge General Education Graduate Studies Connected Class Size Engage Interdisciplinary Learning Research “Intellectual freedom for students and professors to think, create, and explore complex, multifaceted curricula unencumbered by standardized assessments, assumptions that learning produces defined sets of outcomes, or assumptions that vocational training represents a primary purpose of college studies.”
AMP Task Force • Ashley Bowden, Graduate Student • Leah Bridgers, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics • Richard Cebada, Undergraduate Student • Charlene Christie, Associate Professor, Psychology • Todd Ellis, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences • Jim Greenberg, Director, TLTC • Andrew Kahl, Associate Professor, Theater Arts • Kelsey Knutsen, Undergraduate Student • Michael Koch- Associate Professor, Philosophy • Anne McFarland, Head of Bibliographic and Digital Services, Milne Library • Bill Proulx - Co-chair - Associate Professor, Human Ecology • John Schaumloffel - Co-chair - Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry • Kevin Schermerhorn, Graduate Student Academic Master Plan