STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE
Meeting Notes
1:00PM – 3:00PM, Thursday, April 3, 2014
Devlin Boardroom
Attendees: Jeff Quirin, Jeremy Hill, Jodi Pelkowski, Tim Craft, Robbie McKee, Joan
Adkisson, Angela Dudley, Pat McLeod, John Perry
The first issue addressed was which ranking should be used for Barton School Goal 3 (To increase the Barton School national ranking by 2019)
- Khawaja presented four MBA program rankings.
o The US News & World Report MBA program rankings (including the full-time program, part-time program, and EMBA program rankings)
§ In March 2014, the Barton School’s MBA program was ranking #132 out of 208 Part-Time MBA programs in the United States
§ Click here for the USN&WR MBA Program rankings
§ Click here for a description of how the USN&WR MBA scores are calculated.
o The BusinessWeek MBA program rankings (including the full-time program, part-time program, and EMBA program rankings)
§ The Barton School is not currently ranked in the BusinessWeek MBA program rankings
§ Click here for the BusinessWeek Program rankings
o Poets and Quants MBA program rankings
§ The Barton School is not currently ranked in Poets and Quants
§ Click here for the Poets and Quants program rankings
§ Scores are determined as an average of the USNWR, BusinessWeek, and Financial Times MBA Program scores
o Wall Street Journal MBA program rankings
§ The Barton School is not currently ranked in the WSJ program rankings
§ Click here for the WSJ program rankings
o Financial Times MBA program rankings
§ The Barton School is not currently ranked in the FT program rankings
§ Click here for the FT program rankings
- John presented two undergraduate business school rankings
o The US News & World Report undergraduate school rankings (including overall and specialty rankings)
§ The Barton School is not currently ranked in the USNWR undergraduate business school rankings
§ Click here for the USN&WR undergraduate business school rankings
§ Click here for a description of how the USN&WR undergraduate business school scores are calculated.
o The BusinessWeek undergraduate business school rankings
§ The Barton School is not currently ranked in the BusinessWeek undergraduate business school rankings
§ Click here for the BusinessWeek undergraduate business school rankings
§ Click here for a description of how the BusinessWeek undergraduate business school score are calculated.
- The committee suggested two rankings to use for Goal 3
o For the Barton School MBA program, the US News & World Report Part-Time MBA program ranking was selected. This ranking was selected because:
§ The Barton School MBA program is already listed in this ranking
§ Other rankings use sources and data to calculate scores that the Barton School cannot control or does not have (e.g., corporate recruiter surveys, 5-year post-graduation salaries)
§ This ranking has separate rankings for US and international MBA programs
§ Other rankings do not consider part-time MBA programs
o For the Barton School undergraduate business school, the US News & World Report undergraduate business school ranking was selected. This ranking was selected because:
§ The ranking is based on a survey of AACSB deans and senior faculty
§ Other rankings use sources and data to calculate scores that the Barton School cannot influence or does not have (e.g., corporate recruiter surveys)
- These two rankings will be forwarded to Dean Claycomb for consideration
The second issue addressed was how outreach should be measured for Barton School Goal 5 (To increase and expand Barton School outreach in the areas of professional development, service, consulting, and business development by twenty percent by December 2019)
- The committee discussed “what is outreach?”
- The committee members noted that outreach takes different forms for different centers and departments.
- The committee suggested :
o The strategic planning committee will provide guidance to centers, departments, and units for what constitutes outreach
§ This description will be forthcoming soon
o Given the description, each center, department, and unit within the Barton School should decide for itself:
§ Among your current and future activities, which are outreach activities?
§ How should you count/measure your outreach activities?
o 2014 outreach activities should form the baseline for Goal 5 (not 2013)
The third issue addressed related to alternatives to the current Faculty Appraisal and Incentive processes
- Based on feedback that he received from faculty members and the Appraisal and Incentive Process survey, Jeff presented a summary of the key aspects of a new faculty appraisal and incentive systems.
- Committee members discussed the difficulty associated with creating appraisal and incentive systems that are fair, somewhat comprehensive, flexible, and supported by many faculty. The members indicated that creating detailed appraisal and incentive systems would be difficult.
- John noted that the survey results had been shared with Dean Claycomb and the Business School.
- The committee suggested sending the summary that Jeff prepared to Dean Claycomb.
The fourth issue addressed was how research should be measured for Barton School Goal 4 (To increase Barton School research by twenty percent by December 2019)
- In beginning to discuss how research should be measured, the committee members first discussed what should count as “research.”
- It was noted that in our original formulation of the new Barton School goals, we did not develop a goal related to research. After the November college-wide meetings and discussions with our colleagues, however, we deleted a goal related to increasing enrollment, and we added a goal related to increasing Barton School research. We added the research goal because we did not want research to become devalued in the future. Moreover, we talked about several types of research, including the following.
o Peer reviewed scholarly articles
o Student research
o Center-based research
o Other research
- At the end of the meeting, the committee members decided that they could not decide how research should be measured. Instead they decided:
o all of the committee’s center and department representatives should solicit “what should count as research” from their center/department colleagues
o the committee should meet again to discuss this issue
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