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Provost’s Report

Katherine Frank Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Life 20 July 2017

Reaffirmation of NWCCU Accreditation

How Trustees Can Best Prepare (see Handouts 1 & 2)

• Understand the importance and value of accreditation
• Academic quality assurance, institutional integrity, and continuous

improvement

• Access to federal funding – student financial aid and grants
• Be familiar with the NWCCU standards for governing boards
• Focus on mission fulfillment and institutional adaptability
• Know the Strategic Plan Core Themes

Strategic Plan Update

Guiding Principles (see Handout 3)

• Preserve intent of original SP Core Themes and

Objectives

• Remove redundant outcomes
• Enhance indicators
• Streamline – reduce number of indicators
• Specify – define all indicators
• Ensure all outcomes are measurable with data already

available

Baccalaureate Taskforce Status Report

• General Education Redesign
• Baccalaureate Taskforce

General Education Redesign

President’s Charge:

• Create a high-value, distinctive CWU General Education

experience through campus-wide input & buy-in Accomplishments (ratified by Faculty Senate vote):

• Timeline
• Guiding Philosophy
• Five GE Program Goals
• Framework
• Learning Outcomes
• Course Development: Summer Workshops (June 2017-

70+ participants; second workshop in August) Next Steps:

• Framework population

• Academic Advising
• Center for Teaching and Learning

Excellence

• Developmental Programs
• Diversity and Inclusivity
• Honors
• Interdisciplinary Programs
• Liberal Arts Education and

Professional Programs

• Library and Information

Technology Services

• Mapping and Assessing

Student Services

• Online/Multi-Modal

Learning

• Outcomes and

Assessment

• Survey Administration

and Analyses

• Teacher-Scholar Faculty
• Transfer Students
• University Centers

Baccalaureate Taskforce Workgroups

Baccalaureate Taskforce Workgroups

Common Themes

• Access
• Diversity and Inclusiveness
• Quality
• Student Achievement

Provide all students with a range of degree options, delivery methods, support structures, and experiential learning opportunities, in a diverse and inclusive community, to promote timely degree completion and high levels of academic, professional, and personal achievement.

CWU

4-year Transfer Resident Remote

2016 BoT Retreat

President: I Think We Are Here?

Access

• Latinx students, other students of color, lower-

income students, first-generation students, transfer students, veterans, and veterans’ dependents

• Need for strategic advertising, robust and targeted

advising, transfer services and offices, focused access and exit points

• Strength: Breadth of programming and support

structures

• Challenge: Messaging and pathways through the

educational experience

Access

From the Online/Multimodal Workgroup:

“Online/multimodal learning strongly aligns with CWU’s shared values, particularly through dedication to

• student success through unique and responsive degree

programs and certificates,

• access to educational opportunities for qualified

students through a variety of state-of-the-art

• facilities and learning technologies, which allow and

enhance broad engagement with intellectual discourse, and

• inclusiveness of students who might otherwise be

excluded by limitations of income, location, and life- situation.”

Diversity and Inclusiveness

Strengths:

• Student Services
• Clubs and Organizations
• Institutional Level Support
• Co-curricular Programming
• Passion

Challenges:

• Academic Programming
• Staff and Faculty
• Internationalization Efforts

Diversity and Inclusiveness

From the Diversity and Inclusivity Workgroup:

“The broader questions still need to be ascertained: Do we recruit a diverse campus community (faculty, staff, students)? Do we retain a diverse campus community (faculty, staff, students)? Are we supporting our minority faculty, staff, students? Do we create an environment for a thriving diverse campus community?”

Diversity and Inclusiveness

58.7% 59.8% 31.2% 32.7% 6.6% 5.1% 3.6% 2.3%

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0% Faculty and TAs treated students respectfully Students in my major treated each other respectfully

Regardless of Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality, or Country of Origin:

Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree

Quality

• Enhance existing academic programs through

program review

• Conduct market and feasibility studies for new

academic programs

• Enhance Honors programming/opportunities
• Increase grant funds obtained for scholarship and

creative expression

• Create a Center for Innovation and Excellence in

Teaching and Learning

Quality

From the Honors Workgroup: “Make departmental honors available to all CWU students who choose to participate, irrespective of major.” From the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence: “The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CT&LE) would be a faculty-led university organization dedicated to fostering and enhancing lifelong learning, advancing and developing outstanding teachers, furthering the discussion of innovative pedagogies, and promoting the use of educational technologies for instruction and assessment. CT&LE’s mission would be to provide leadership, inspiration, development, advancement, and support for university faculty.”

Quality

39.6% 48.3% 10.1% 2.0% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%

Please rate your overall learning experience at CWU.

Excellent Good Fair Poor

Quality

53.6% 31.4% 9.4% 5.6% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%

If I had to make my college choice over again, I would choose to attend CWU.

Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree

Quality

71.1% 63.2% 22.2% 23.2% 4.0% 8.1% 2.7% 5.5%

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0% Made me excited about learning Cared about me as a person

At least one professor:

Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree

Student Achievement

• Retention and Persistence
• Degree Completion
• Enhance undergraduate experience and increase

employability through experiential learning: Undergraduate Research Service-learning Community Engagement Study Abroad Internships, Externships, and CO-OP

• Post-baccalaureate experiences

Student Achievement

From the Academic Advising Workgroup:

“According to the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, an exemplary advising model will be ‘intentionally designed’, built upon theory and research, woven into the fabric of the institution, ‘responsive’ to unique needs of students offered through a variety of modalities, and ‘reflective of developmental and demographic profiles of the student population’. The CWU hybrid model of advising should be examined through the lens of these powerful standards.”

Student Achievement

20.4% 30.8% 27.1% 21.7% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%

Please rate what you learned from co-curricular activities such as study abroad, service-learning, and participation in special CWU programs, clubs, and organizations.

Excellent Good Fair Poor

Student Achievement

15.5% 24.4% 33.4% 26.7% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%

Please rate the help you received from academic advisors before you were formally admitted to your major.

Excellent Good Fair Poor

Student Achievement

29.9% 22.6% 34.0% 36.8% 23.7% 26.6% 13.3% 13.9%

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0% Academic advisors in your academic department Outside of class interactions with faculty/teaching assistants

Please rate the help you received from:

Excellent Good Fair Poor

Student Achievement

28.2% 27.7% 20.2% 23.9% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%

While I was attending college, I had a mentor who encouraged my goals and dreams.

Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree Somewhat Disagree Strongly Disagree

Gaps

• “Big” Ideas
• Openness to Change
• Student Input
• Regional Relevance
• Uniqueness
• Common Concern: Funding

Next Steps: Discussion to Implementation

(Listed in terms of “readiness” per report status, but not in terms of priority)

• Academic Advising
• Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
• Developmental Programs
• Online/Multi-Modal Learning
• Diversity and Inclusivity
• Honors
• Transfer Students
• University Centers
• Interdisciplinary Programs