Higher Learning Commission Reaccreditation

1. Higher Learning Commission Reaccreditation Criteria 5: Service & Engagement

2. Did you know….? For the 2005-06 academic year, Education students put in 271,000 hours in area classrooms. ENGAGEMENT

3. Did you know…? MSUM’s Old Fashioned 4th of July, which was started in 1973 as a lead-in event for the U.S. Bicentennial, attracts 20,000 people of all ages annually.

4. Today’s Agenda • Provide you with an overview of our committee’s progress. • Gather input from you. We need your perspectives.

5. Did you know….? The NCA Team visits MSUM campus March 5-7, 2007. WE WILL BE READY.

6. Criteria 5 Team Co-chairs: • Brittney Goodman, Director of Instructional Resource • Teri Walseth, Director of Teacher Education, Associate Dean Education and Human Service, Director of Field Exeriences Team: • Ginny Bair, Records Office • Tony Bormann, Regional Science Center • Ian Cole, Student • Betty Gunderson, Alumni Foundation • Tim Harms, Mathematics

7. Criteria 5 Team (cont.) • Terry Kroke, Library • Sara Leigh, Advising Support Center • Veronica Michael, Admissions • Kathleen Paulson, Customized Training • Kathy Scott, Student Support Services • Len Sliwoski, Director of Small Business Development Center • Linda Svobodny, Special Education

8. Our Procedures • Have met twice per month this academic year • Brainstormed and looked at existing data/information • Teams worked through each core component • Drafted a chapter • Currently fleshing out & revising chapter & gathering additional data • Will be surveying students, faculty, and staff

9. BRIEF OUTLINE OF CHAPTER • See handout for more detail. • Brief outline will also be available on MSUM’s reaccreditation web site– http://www.mnstate.edu/ncavisit/

10. Criteria 5 Engagement and Service: As called for by its mission, MSUM identifies its constituencies and serves them in ways both value.

11. Core Component 5a MSUM learns from the constituencies it serves and analyzes its capacity to serve their needs and expectations .

12. 5a evidence Examples of evidence include: • Environmental scanning: • Advisory Boards • Student Senate serves as an advisory group to the administration for the students • Community-based Boards & Organizations

13. 5a evidence – environmental scanning • TOCAR Collaborative campus climate surveys • Continuing Studies and Customized Training -- evaluation forms and surveys • Small Business Development Center • Academic Service Learning • Regional Science Center

14. 5a evidence • MSUM demonstrates attention to the diversity of the constituencies it serves: • Outreach/cooperative programs with White Earth Tribal community • TOCAR trainings • Disabilities Services • Student organizations • Alumni Foundation

15. 5a evidence – diversity of constituents • College for Kids Strategic Grant Initiative that gave scholarship funding for students of color to attend classes • Multicultural Affairs • Early Childhood Education Center • Access Scholarship • Still working on evidence for: • Rural? • Urban? • Nontraditional? • First-time college? • Online/distance? Campus?

16. 5a evidence • The organization’s outreach programs respond to identified community needs • Surveys and informal information have been gathered by many individual departments and programs. • Speech, Language and Hearing Department clinics • EECE collaborations with K-12 • College of Social and Natural Sciences school-related programs

17. 5a evidence – outreach responds to community needs • For the 2005-06 academic year, Education students put in 271,000 hours in classrooms • Deb White, Sociology, has courses where students do research for organizations to help them identify the needs of their community

18. 5a evidence • In responding to external constituencies, the organization is well served by programs such as continuing education, outreach, customized training and extension services. • Institutional Outreach Committee • Continuing Studies has an Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness Survey -- feedback on services received • Other feedback mechanisms

19. Core Component 5b MSUM has the capacity & commitment to engage with identified constituents and communities.

20. 5b evidence • Structures & processes enable effective connections with communities • University Planning and Budget Committee • Institutional Outreach Committee • Tri-College University relationship • Minnesota State Colleges and Universities • President’s Advisory Board

21. 5b evidence – structures & processes • Reassigned time for outreach/service • Processes, such as: • Departmental/program biennial reports • Articulation agreements

22. 5b evidence • Our educational programs and co-curricular activities engage students, staff, administrators and faculty with external constituencies • Academic Service Learning • Regional Science Center • Children’s Theatre productions • Athletic events • (much more – see handout)

23. 5b evidence • MSUM provides resources to support effective programs, engagement, service. • Continuing Studies & Customized Training • Regional Science Center • Small Business Development Center • Allocations from Strategic (Work Plan) initiatives • Allocations for Academic Service Learning • Will include allocations/budget/positions’ FTE • Faculty release time for outreach activities

24. 5b evidence • Capacity, commitment, and history of service/engagement at MSUM • Our commitment to service/engagement is clearly present in MSUM’s mission statement. http://www.mnstate.edu/home/WELCOME/MISSION.HTM

25. 5b evidence – capacity, history • Elements from Mission: • “The University enhances the quality of life in the region with the professional, cultural, and recreational services offered by its students, faculty, and staff. ” • “…provide instruction that encourages and empowers students to contribute as educated, compassionate, and responsible citizens within their communities, states, nations and the world.”

26. 5b evidence – capacity, history • Elements from mission: • “…support and encouragement for faculty development including scholarship, creative activity, research and public service that enriches the individual and the institution, and that promotes the educational and economic development of the service region.”

27. 5b evidence – capacity, history • Elements from mission: • “provide students a range of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities as well as opportunities related to community service and leadership as a means of developing social awareness and enhancing the quality of their lives and developing their potential to thrive in a changing world.”

28. 5b evidence • Historical evidence: • Science Center. • White Earth collaboration began in 1979, with over 275 degree graduates since its inception. • Capacity – We are working on this section.

29. Core Component 5c MSUM demonstrates its responsiveness to those constituencies that depend on it for service.

30. 5c evidence • Collaborative ventures exist and are created in response to identified needs • Collaborations between MSUM and K-12 – Waubun, Visiting Scholars, Red River Area Learning Center • 2+2 Articulation agreements • Nursing • Customized Training • Shared facilities (Fergus Falls/MSCTC) • TCU • White Earth

31. 5c evidence - • MSUM’s transfer policies and practices & other ways we respond to transfer student needs. • MSUM has over 260 2-plus-2 transfer programs with two-year colleges in Minnesota and North Dakota. • Minnesota Transfer Curriculum • Resources for advisers/transfer reviews • Transfer specialist in Admissions, Jim Anderson

32. 5c evidence – transfer needs • Ann Hanson, Urban recruiter in Mpls-St. Paul • Transfer orientation • PSEO’s

33. 5c evidence • “Community leaders testify to the university’s programs of engagement.” • We are currently gathering this data from several sources.

34. 5c evidence • MSUM’s programs of engagement…evidence of building effective bridges among diverse constituents. • Academic Service Learning • Volunteer Visions • Career Services • Senior Year Experience • TOCAR • Multicultural Affairs

35. 5c evidence • MSUM’s partnerships focus on shared goals. • Moorhead Public Schools and College of Education-Visiting Scholars Program • Tri-College University library partnerships • TOCAR – Tri-College partnership • MSCTC/MSUM • White Earth

36. 5c evidence • Partnerships and contractual arrangements uphold organization’s integrity. • Field experiences • Licensing agreements • Articulation agreements

37. Core Component 5d Internal & external constituencies value the services MSUM provides.

38. 5d evidence • Evaluation of services involves the constituencies we serve. • Methods for gathering feedback vary, from formal to informal, quantitative to qualitative. • Institutional Effectiveness surveys • Internships – formal evaluations • SLHS • “How are you being served?” • National Survey of Student Engagement

39. 5d evidence • Service programs and student, faculty and staff volunteer activities are well-received by the communities served. • Evidence that those served value the university’s services and volunteer activities is shown through: • Participation at local events such as 4th of July celebration • Hendrix Health Center – Health Fair • Celebration of Nations • Many many more activities well-attended and received by community.

40. 5d evidence – service well-received • MSUM students provide many services to the community that are highly valued, including: • Volunteer Visions, a student volunteer program • Halloween Celebration for community children in the residence halls • Habitat for Humanity • Departments and student organizations need to be surveyed to determine what student volunteer activities are taking place, participation rate, value, etc. Also… Upcoming Student & Faculty/Staff Surveys

41. 5d – service well-received • Faculty and staff serve the community through participation in local volunteer boards, music and theatre activities, fundraising (United Way, Combined Charities, etc.) • Services for the community and alumni include: • Annual Fourth of July celebration • Annual Christmas party at Nemzek for area children • Alumni are served through reunions, Alumnews (alumni newspaper), Alumni on-line community, toll-free phone information service, invitations to events on campus, travel opportunities, continuing education, & distance learning.

42. 5d evidence • The organization’s economic and workforce development activities are sought after and valued by civic and business leaders. • West Central Minnesota Small Business Development Center, which serves nine counties, is located on our campus. • Career Services – student interns well sought-after. • Customized training

43. 5d evidence • Organization’s facilities are available to and used by the community • Every year, thousands of Moorhead area residents attend campus sponsored theater productions, musical performances, lectures, art exhibitions, athletic contests, literary readings, silent movie showings, planetarium shows, nature walks, much more….. • MSUM’s Old Fashioned 4th of July, which was started in 1973 as a lead-in event for the U.S. Bicentennial, attracts 20,000 people of all ages.

44. 5d evidence - facilities • The American Cancer Society utilizes the campus mall each summer for the Clay County Relay for Life. • Area elementary schools bring students to the campus for the Children’s Theater Productions, classes at the Regional Science Center, and for Science Fairs.

45. 5d evidence - facilities • Comstock Memorial Union • Nemzek • Center for the Arts • Livingston Lord Library • MSUM serves as an emergency shelter for the community. • Police substation on campus.

46. 5d evidence • MSUM provides programs to meet continuing education for licensed professionals. • MSUM offers numerous continuing education opportunities for licensed professionals, especially in the education, health care, public and human service fields. • Continuing Studies -- Saturday, evening classes, non-credit workshops, distance education, College for Kids, customized training • Alternate delivery – online, hybrid, ITV, self-paced courses

47. 5d evidence – continuing education for licensed professionals • Many certificate programs • Master’s degree programs • CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

48. Feedback from YOU • What might we have missed? Do you have other examples of MSUM’s service or engagement with the community? • What should be emphasized in this chapter on service and engagement? • Service/engagement STRENGTHS? • WEAKNESSES? • Other comments/questions?

49. Contact us http://web.mnstate.edu/ncavisit goodmanb@mnstate.edu walseth@mnstate.edu