Academic Affairs Start Up and Update

1. Academic Affairs Start Up and Update August 20, 2013

2. Focus Areas of Master Academic Plan • Financial sustainability • Internationally competitive • Distinctively BSU • Organizational alignment

3. Master Academic Plan & Work Plan: Copies on AA website

4. Financially Sustainable • Distance programs on 80/20 revenue sharing model • Nursing at Anoka Ramsey and Century Colleges • Mass Comm…online marketing communications • Social Work…blended online format • MS Special Education • MBA starting fall 2014 • MS Special Education online…in review • RCM budget planning exploration for CBTC and Nursing • 6new faculty lines for growth • Program indicator guidelines

5. Distinctively BSU • Residential experience is core and must be exceptional • Residential Life and our partnership with Student Development • Housing changes for students • Required on campus stay for freshmen • Construction • Visibility on campus and strengthening campus community • Student/faculty research • Integration with the Bemidji Community: Steward of Place

6. Distinctively BSU • High quality distance programming: Current degree completion programs • Accounting • Business Administration • Criminal Justice • Applied Engineering • Technology Management • Marketing/Communications • MS Education • MS Special Education

7. Distinctively BSU • Current blended format or face to face and online programs: • Nursing RN-BSN (Anoka Ramsey, Century, Lake Superior) • DLiTE program in Elementary Education • FastTrack for Secondary Education • Social Work

8. Distinctively BSU • New faculty grant $75K • Course redesign grant $96K • Center for Community Partnerships • Moving into the city and vice versa • Tally Gallery • BCT and Bangsberg

9. Internationally Competitive • 17 international partners for exchanges and semester abroad opportunities for students (updates coming) • Switzerland • Norway • Sweden • Finland • Denmark • Germany • England • Iceland • Canada • South Korea • Malaysia • China (6) • Site coordinators needed

10. Internationally Competitive: Study Abroad Still Available • Euro Spring • Sino Summer • Argentina • Etc…all coordinated with IPC and including International Studies Committee

11. Internationally Competitive • Two visiting scholars at BSU • Sergei Kukharenkofrom Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Russia • Ping Wan from Liaoning University, China • WFU student ambassadors (6) coming this week • Videoconferencing classroom in Bridgeman ready • Global Understanding non-credit certificate for students ready • Intensive English immersion summer camp begun and will expand • CIEE summer seminars and faculty/staff abroad

13. Internationally Competitive: Faculty Opportunity for International Teaching/Research Abroad • One BSU faculty per semester at Weifang U. • Teach short courses/seminars <= 4 hours per week and conduct research . • WFU will identify local Chinese faculty members to assist BSU professors on research topics relevant to WFU and BSU. • Round trip airfare, local accommodations, and office space provided. • Stipend of $1000 per month provided. Contact: Sanjeev Phukan (sphukan@bemidjistate.edu) or Martin Tadlock (mtadlock@bemidjistate.edu)

14. Internationally Competitive: 1-2-1 Programs • AASCU/CEAIE consortium • 3 Universities in S. China • Looking for programs here to pilot • Dual degree • Virgil Bakken

15. International Experiences Day • 30 minute presentations, individual or group, from students, faculty, and staff who have participated in study abroad/semester abroad programs, internships/working/teaching abroad opportunities, humanitarian and/or volunteer international experiences, or any other international experience directly related to BSU or at any of our partner colleges. • Contact: Jamie Bergerson by emailing her at: jbergerson@bemidjistate.edu Jamie will organize the agenda/program. We will send you drafts of the program as it evolves, and you will be contacted by Jamie to confirm the time and place for your presentation.

16. Organizational and Space • Sanford • Memorial • Decker • Bensen • Student residential halls • Long range for Hagg-Sauer

17. Challenge: HLC Assessment • HLC assessment follow through in some programs • Up to date: • Biology • Mathematics • Sociology • Psychology • Sports Management • Business • Accounting • Nursing • Social Work • Education • Other programs…Friday August 23 at 9:30 a.m. • May be last year in HLC Academy on Student Learning • Future considerations and link to resources

18. Challenge: Liberal Education Core • Liberal Education core the is distinctively BSU, interdisciplinary and owned by a core group of faculty

19. Challenge: Faculty/Staff Roles and Building Community • Technology and competing demands • On campus or off campus focus of faculty/staff? • Online or residential life for students when 21% are not on campus? • Distance learners who never come to BSU? • Engagement of faculty/staff in local community when teaching online? • Mission of the university as a regional steward when 21% of students are not in Bemidji? • Building community when our faculty profile is: • 98 faculty using D2L to enhance courses • 22 more faculty using D2L to teach online • Faculty leadership

20. Invitation to Address Challenges • Address program assessment plan currency and follow through in departments • Liberal Education Committee: Recommend to Academic Affairsby January 2014 a new liberal education core that is distinctively BSU, interdisciplinary, and owned by a core group of faculty • Attend dialogue sessions on the role of faculty and on what BSU should be in the information/technological age • Invite family/partners to all events possible and take care of our people