Academics Work Group09/25/13 Pete Walton

Proposed Strategic Items for discussion

Optimize efficiency of teaching

  • Increase class size
  • Increase student enrollment in programs and subprograms with low headcounts
  • Reduce course instances
  • Reduce curriculum options for required and elective coursework
  • Utilize programs of study to combine course instances across semesters and years
  • Combine similar courses across programs
  • Merge coursework for low-headcount subprograms
  • Share courses with similar programs/subprograms in other institutions
  • Increase number of hybrid and online courses
  • Resolve underperforming programs
  • Move into school-based programs as concentrations/specializations
  • Increase student enrollment

Optimize utilization of faculty for teaching

  • Increasefaculty work assignment percentage for teaching duties where effortin other areas is underutilized, underperforming, or under-justified (e.g., cost-benefit)
  • Provide incentives for teaching
  • Tenure track for teaching
  • Criteria
  • Teaching evaluation methodology
  • “Contracts” with departments for academic activities (program/subprogram administration, teaching, advising, mentoring, dissertation/thesis committees, etc.)
  • Evaluation of performance of “contract”
  • Bonuses for faculty teaching more than X course per year
  • Rotate faculty teaching a given course from term to term

Increase student enrollment

  • Focus “marketing and sales” activities
  • Increase market awareness of SPHIS and its programs
  • International degree programs
  • Faculty/student exchange programs
  • Increase prospect counts for programs
  • Recruitment
  • Increase prospect-to-lead conversions
  • Email contact
  • Increase lead-to-applicant conversions
  • Phone contact
  • Increase admitted (by us)-to-matriculated percentage
  • Faculty contact
  • Funding
  • Increase attractiveness of programs
  • Reduce cost to student
  • Packaged tuition and fees for full- and part-time students
  • E-texts to reduce textbook costs
  • Shorten time to degree
  • Year-round courses
  • Increase number of hybrid and online courses
  • Add in-demand programs and subprograms

Carry out academic mission of SPHIS

  • Establish programs to meet societal needs and demands
  • International activities
  • Pakistandegree programs
  • China faculty/student exchange programs
  • Investigate new programs
  • MHA program
  • MSSW-MPH
  • MSN
  • Med student certificate in public health
  • Revitalize existing programs
  • MD-MPH
  • Bachelor-MPH
  • Clinical investigation sciences
  • Train the region’s public health workforce
  • Maintain high-quality programs
  • CEPH accreditation
  • SACS accreditation
  • CPE/University program reviews
  • Program outcomes
  • Student competencies
  • Teaching evaluation
  • Student evaluation