Budget Discussion Responses
“What’s Working” Topic
November 2012
What’s Working:
Ideas/Suggestions / Issues/Problems / Questions / Other /Creating & sustaining innovative programs
like FYE (especially for faculty) (•••••)
Don’t compromise quality. (••••) / Challenges of teaching larger courses – not best education. (••••)
[under ‘how to allocate resources”] / Can we fund humanities? (•••)
Exec MBA – generating revenue support
for postgraduate programs. (•••) / [We need] Ways to generate income or doing business differently. (••) / Do we agree we have a budget problem? (•)
Interest in certificate programs brings in
community support/engagement. (•••) / [under “Working but NOT sustainable”]
1) Student access to faculty in office hours and beyond: works/needed by students, but disappearing because of workload expansion. (••)
2) Increasing workload (class sizes, etc.) “Plugs the holes in the dike”, but not sustainable – quality declining. (••)
3) Certificate programs (as currently structured) make some extra $, but wear out the supervising faculty.
Subsidize small seminar type classes
with large lecture. (•••) / IT needs to be in AA (••)
Even small amounts of Seed $ and stipends
work “big bang for the buck”. (•••) / Moodle is working – needs larger support staff. (•)
Interaction with our colleagues
Seminars, conversation (audit
each other’s classes). (•••)[Under
“What’s Working – Needs More”] / Rearranging deck chairs [is “working”?]
We want to be Liberal Arts
and Sciences (••)
Ground-up curricular innovation works
really well, and independently of budget
– to a point. (••)
Faculty-administrative interaction is
better. (••)
Moodle (but more training/help would
be useful). (•)
Enrollment (reg., waitlist, etc.) (•)
But still needs tweaking so that 1st
two weeks are not lost by class or
late-arriving students. [Also “MySSU à
email, advisees, ARR.” And “MySSU/
especially waitlists and its metrics work
– we need to use them more”]
“Privatizing for Elites” (•)
Events like this! More talking to people
we don’t usually talk to… (•)
Mission-centered US market-centered
Lack of creativity CO
Potential to push back
Finding economies?
RTP process (not policy so much)
Conversations about how to fill
hole in academic affairs.
Change in attitude
Upping the “comps” to performances
and other strategies for leveraging the
co-curriculum.
Faculty travel pays MAJOR dividends
– morale, curriculum