Academic Affairs Summary for 2012-2013 A brief look back at the year from my perspective

1. Academic Affairs Summary for 2012-2013A brief look back at the year from my perspective Spring 2013

2. Fall of 2012: Consider the new normal • Financial breakpoint raises questions • Education or training? • Commodity or common good? • Reducing per credit costs vs. quality? • Past precedence/practice vs. new? • Future of residential experience? • No return to the past • Unprecedented time of opportunity and change

3. First step: Analyze academic affair’s current state and plan for the year

4. A few things I saw in fall 2012: my perspective • Emerging from severe budget cuts • New leadership at upper levels • Long term interim positions • Need to redefine sustainable direction • HLC assessment challenges • No clear plan for academics • University strategic plan expiring • Historic practices no longer financially viable • Trust and morale low

5. First, set a few broad goals with academic deans for 2012-2013 • Re-establish leadership principles and institutional values • Identify and take early actions in critical areas • Make master academic planning central to university strategic planning

6. 1. Re-establish leadership principles and values • Open communication and information flow • Fall opening forum • Academic Affairs forums • Provost blog • College meetings • Open office hours • Expand dean’s council to academic council and post notes • Communicate regularly with all faculty/staff • Purposefully target university and community press releases • Promote collaborative learning • Create and offer course redesign grants • Provide new faculty scholarship grants • Promote community engagement and thinking globally • Add staff in career services to coordinate internship opportunities • Add staff in the international program center to recruit students and help with BSU students going aboard

7. 2. Identify and take early actions in critical areas • Examples included in the upcoming slides

8. 3. Make master academic planning central to university strategic planning • Agreement with the president on planning process for the year that included master academic planning and university strategic planning • Begin with creating Master Academic Plan in fall • Begin strategic planning and do both concurrently in spring • Merge the two

10. Master academic planning • Work with others to create Master Academic Plan • Ask for self-study from each academic program • Provide info for a SWOT analysis for each department • Develop set of 10 indicators to use to guide analysis • Provide info for regional, state, national review of data • Categorize all programs as: • Sustain • Grow • Revise • Create new • Identify programmatic direction from program self-studies • Create college grids showing future directions by program • Set 4-5 focus areas overall for academic affairs for next 3-5 years

11. Master academic planning • Arrived at four focus areas for next 3-5 years • Financial sustainability • International competitiveness • Academic distinctiveness • Organizational structure to support other three areas

12. Financially Sustainable: Examples

13. Develop new budget models • Set expectations/criteria for every program • Develop additional distance delivered programs online and blended with national accreditation • Twin cities • National • International • Move distance programs to 80/20 revenue sharing model • Pilot new budgeting model with CBTC

14. Internationally Competitive: Examples

15. Increase number of international students • Form CIBT/KGIC Partnership • Attend international fairs • Enter into student recruitment contract • Up the number of visiting professors • Implement summer camps for international students • Work to help bring Chinese immersion teachers to the Twin Cities • Create programmatic agreements • CEAIE/AASCU 1+2+1 membership • Explore ECE, Nursing, Technology, and Engineering related agreements with Sprott-Shaw College in Vancouver, B.C. • Explore agreement for Teacher Education in Lucerne and Beijing • Explore international partnership for MBA launch

16. Send faculty and students abroad • Expand Fulbright opportunities for faculty and students • Secure slots for students to teach abroad through CIBT • http://mjwiller.wordpress.com • http://tiaellies.worpress.com • Secure slots for faculty to teach abroad through CIBT • Secure slots for faculty projects abroad through CIEE • Develop ‘Passport program’ for students

17. Provide affordable semester abroad opportunities • Provide student exchanges with 12 universities for under $1,000 a semester above cost of attending BSU • Reykjavik, Iceland; Tromse, Norway; Lucerne, Switzerland • U of Comoros, Comoros Islands • HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia • Kyung Hee U, Seoul, Korea • Beijing (2), Dalian, Shenyang, Weifang, Guangzhou, China • Northern Argentina; Recife, Brazil still to secure • Vancouver, B.C. Canada still to secure • University of Surabaya (UBAYA), Indonesia still to secure

18. Establish EB5 center • Partnership with University of North Dakota • BSU office to be established through external funding • Federal immigrant investor program • State of Minnesota jurisdiction

19. Academically Distinctive: Examples

20. International efforts • Affordable semester abroad opportunities for all BSU students • 3+1+1 and 2+2 agreements internationally with multiple programs • Recruitment of international students • Collaboration with two year colleges • International pathways via PathPro through AASCU • Semester abroad opportunities for their students • Joint recruiting of international students • Collaboration with Tribal Colleges • Create shared courses using GLN • Provide their students semester abroad opportunities

21. Rethink graduate education • MBA, MAT approvals • International 3/1/1 pathways to graduate degrees with international partners • Move to revenue sharing funding models • Rethink Graduate Office staffing/responsibilities

22. Create and recreate • Expand student-faculty research efforts to include state event • Establish research and sponsored programs office • Recreate library into learning commons • Create manufacturing educational center in Bemidji • Student entrepreneurship/innovation/incubator • FAB lab • Business services

23. Revisit liberal education • Provide course redesign small grants • Collaborative learning principles • Interdisciplinary • Project-based/experiential • Create distinctiveness • Writing across the curriculum • Indigenous Studies • Environmental Sustainability • Allied Health • Provide multiple credentials for students • Expand internships

24. Create new faculty scholarship and innovation fund • Funds for scholarly pursuit for new faculty • Promote pursuit of external funding opportunities • Work towards creation of research and sponsored programs center

25. Promote service learning, internships and career development • Promote incorporation of service learning into existing courses • Move towards all students must have one: • Service learning • Internship • Practicum • Provide career services for life

26. Consider organizational structure • Organize task force to recommend BSU/NTC merger • Organize Internationalization Task Force • Create College of Applied Technology • Move interim leadership positions to permanent positions • Create Academic Affairs Council • Appoint faculty coordinators for: • Fulbright scholarships • Passport program creation • International Relations Director