UAA Faculty Senate March 3, 2006 Agenda 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. - Library 307 I. Call to Order II. Roll

Officers:

( ) Greg Protasel, President ( ) Caedmon Liburd, Chair, UAB ( ) Kerri Morris, 1st Vice President ( ) Jocelyn Krebs, Chair, GAB ( ) Suresh Srivastava, 2nd Vice President ( ) Tim Hinterberger, Past President

Senators:

( ) Alisha Drabek ( ) Fred Pearce ( ) Rob Crosman ( ) Andy Veh ( ) Gerry Busch ( ) Robert Boeckmann ( ) Anne Bridges ( ) Gopakumar Venugopalan ( ) Sally Bremner ( ) Bogdan Hoanca ( ) Hilary Davies ( ) Sam Thiru ( ) Brad Bradshaw ( ) Jack Pauli ( ) Sarah Kirk ( ) Bruno Kappes ( ) Janice High ( ) Sean Licka ( ) Cable Starlings ( ) Jeff White ( ) Shelley Theno ( ) Carol Coose ( ) John Riley ( ) Suzanne Forster ( ) Connie Roseman ( ) Kathleen Voge ( ) Terri Olson ( ) Cora Neal ( ) Lou Nagy ( ) Tim Jester ( ) Dave Fitzgerald ( ) Maria Ippolito ( ) Toby Widdicombe ( ) Debbie Narang ( ) Maureen O’Malley ( ) Toni Croft ( ) Dennis Howard ( ) Ping Tung Chang ( ) William Schnabel ( ) Diane Erickson

III. Agenda Approval (pg. 1-2)

IV. February 3, 2006 Meeting Summary Approval (3-6 pages) V. Officer’s Reports A. President

B. Second Vice President’s Report on Student Evaluation of Instruction VI. Boards and Committee Reports A. Academic Computing, Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (pg. 7-8) B. Planning, Budget, and Facilities Advisory Committee - PBFA

C. Committee on Committees D. Diversity Committee (pg. 9-10) E. Faculty Grants and Leaves Committee F. Graduate Academic Board (pg. 11-12) G. IUAC – Evaluation of Deans & Directors Update

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H. Library Advisory Committee (pg. 13) I. Professional Development Committee J. Student Academic Success Committee (pg. 14-17) K. Undergraduate Academic Board (pg. 18-21) L. Ad Hoc Committee to Improve UAA’s Research Culture (pg. 22-23)

VII. Old Business

A. Activation of Banner Wait List B. Implementation of GER 12 Credit Rules

VIII. New Business

A. GER Subcommitee Motion Regarding GERs Fitting into one Category IX. Reports

A. Chancellor Elaine Maimon – Legislative Update B. Interim Provost Jan Gehler C. Strategic Planning Update – Will Jacobs D. UNAC Representative

E. ACCFT Representative X. Informational Items & Adjournment

A. UAB/GAB Joint Meeting for Strategic Planning – March 10

B. Future Faculty Alliance Discussion of GER Transferability

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UAA Faculty Senate February 03, 2006 Summary 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. - Library 307 I. Call to Order II. Roll

Officers:

(x) Greg Protasel, President ( ) Caedmon Liburd, Chair, UAB (x) Kerri Morris, 1st Vice President (x) Jocelyn Krebs, Chair, GAB (x) Suresh Srivastava, 2nd Vice President (x) Tim Hinterberger, Past President

Senators:

(x) Alisha Drabek (x) Fred Pearce (x) Robert Boeckmann (x) Andy Veh ( ) Gerry Busch (x) Sally Bremner (x) Anne Bridges (x) Gopakumar Vengopalan (x) Sam Thiru (x) Bogdan Hoanca (x) Hilary Davies (x) Sarah Kirk ( ) Brad Bradshaw (x) Jack Pauli (x) Sean Licka (x) Bruno Kappes (x) Janice High (x) Shelley Theno ( ) Cable Starlings (x) Jeff White (x) Suzanne Forster (x) Carol Coose (x) John Riley ( ) Terri Olson ( ) Connie Roseman ( ) Kathleen Voge - excused (x) Tim Jester ( ) Cora Neal (x) Lou Nagy ( ) Toby Widdicombe (x) Dave Fitzgerald ( ) Maria Ippolito (x) Toni Croft (x) Debbie Narang ( ) Maureen O’Malley ( ) William Schnabel (x) Dennis Howard (x) Ping Tung Chang (x) Rob Crosman (x) Diane Erickson

III. Agenda Approval (pg 1)

Approved.

IV. January 13, 2006 Meeting Summary Approval (pg 2-5) Approved. V. Officer’s Reports A. President 1. We have a new Coordinator for the Governance Office – Kelly Poston. 2. We are searching for a new Governance Administrative Clerk - it will be a

full-time replacement. 3. Provost Search Update. 4. Board of Regents’ meeting in Juneau on February 15-16. 5. Strategic Planning Consultation. 6. Draft motion for Approval of the Academic Master Plan.

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7. Student Evaluation of Instruction Instrument. 8. All Faculty Assembly 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – February 10, 2006 – LIB

307 – ACDLIT – Bogdan Hoanca presenting. 9. Student Academic Success Committee. VI. Boards and Committee Reports A. Academic Computing, Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (pg

6-7). B. Planning, Budget, and Facilities Advisory Committee - PBFA

C. Committee on Committees – No report. D. Diversity Committee (pg 8-9) – Robert Boeckmann – Motion to support Robert

sending a letter from Diversity Committee, as a Faculty Senator and also as the Chair of the Faculty Senate Diversity Committee to the Chancellor encouraging her to find alternative sources of funding as a means of bridging the funding that the AnPsych program has lost, or will loose as of July 2006.

Suresh – Move to untable motion for discussion, seconded and passed. Discussion of motion. Consider friendly amendment to add this and other programs needing funding. Bob Crossman – I Will consider this. Motion: to cut off discussion, (19 for, 5 against, 10 abstain). Bob Crossman agrees to send letter to Chancellor with copy to PBAC. Motion: to support Robert sending a letter to Chancellor with copy to

PBAC. Motion passed. E. Faculty Grants and Leaves Committee – No report. F. Graduate Academic Board (pg 10) – Motion to approve report, seconded. Report approved unanimously. G. IUAC – Evaluation of Deans & Directors Update – No report. H. Library Advisory Committee – No report. I. Professional Development Committee – Student Evaluation of Inst. Update. J. Student Academic Success Committee – Report from Sarah Kirk passed out.

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K. Undergraduate Academic Board (pg 11-14) – Motion: to approve report. Report approved unanimously. L. Ad Hoc Committee to Improve UAA’s Research Culture..

VII. Old Business

A. Proposed Feedback Process for Deans B. Activation of Banner Wait List – Discussion on waitlisting.

Faculty Senate would like some more information on the technology for the waitlist option. Greg would like to have the Academic Boards talk about wait listing. There are several issues. Can a student register for multiple sections? That is one issue. The other one is the activation of the waitlist.

VIII. New Business

A. Faculty Senate Resolution on Academic Master Plan (pg 15) –

Discussion on motion.

Change motion to delete Doug Causey’s name, change to Vice Provost of Research and Graduate Studies. Modify second sentence to “Resolved that the Senate accepts the Current Academic Master Plan with the following comments and recommendations about future planning activities”.

Motion: to approve Faculty Senate Resolution on Academic Master Plan,

approved as amended. IX. Reports

A. Interim Provost Jan Gehler – UAA overall is up 1.6% for Spring enrollments. It is the only MAU that is up. Total up 1.9% for UAA. Community campuses are doing better.

There is a real interest in the performance based budgeting subcommittee PBAC

in seeing if we can’t get strategic opportunity funds, at least the process in place this Spring. $500,000 in 06, another $500,000 will be available for a Strategic opportunity fund allocation.

We will have faculty and staff submit proposals, even though activity might not

start until Summer or Fall of next year. On the $950,000 that was awarded to UAA it is as of February 1, added to our base, the decision is accurately stated, it is going to be part of 07 budget proposal, but about $950,000 will stay separate, it will be clearly earmarked, for efforts that are strategic and that are performance related. The subcommittee is looking at the criteria, what could be most useful,

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for a short allocation. It might be worthwhile if there are short term needs that could filled.

In terms of the longer term the idea might be that there would be a multiple group

of proposals, like the old initiative process, if a proposal for a new program, or the AnPsych, ANSEPT, or RRANN, programs that focus on Diversity that may need to be in place and supported for two to three years.

There are all kinds of options. There will be criteria and information that will

come out this year. This year, we hope to have a timeline to meet late march, early April. Our goal is to have 07 budget completed, with decisions from PBAC to the Chancellor before faculty are off contract.

B. Academic Plan/Strategic Plan Process – Will Jacobs - Doug can meet with E-

board next meeting on how to proceed with review on Academic Master Plan. Greg said next meeting might not work because meeting with Will Jacobs.

X. Informational Items & Adjournment

A. University Wide All Faculty Assembly: “Technology Innovation on a Shoestring”

11:30 - 1:00 February 10, 2006 – LIB 307 1. 11:30 - 11:50 - free lunch provided 2. 11:50 - 12:30 - Faculty Panelists present personal case studies 3. 12:30 - 1:00 - Open discussion with Faculty Panel

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Senate Report Academic Computing, Distance Learning, and Instructional Technology Committee

Meeting of Friday 17 February 2006 ACDLIT March 2006 meeting will be on Friday 17 March The February 17 2006 meeting of the ACDLIT committee was convened at 2:10 PM. Members present: Bruno Kappes Carol Coose Bogdan Hoanca Kate Gordon Kathi Baldwin David Meyers

Anne Bridges Guests: Rick Weems – Chief Enrollment Officer UAA, Statewide coordinating team, MyUA Portal Sally Mead (via teleconference) – Director of Allied Health Sciences, CTC Reports Kate Gordon gave a report from the Academic Steering Committee for Distance Education. Kathi Baldwin reported on activities of the eLearning workgroup of the UTC. Specific items of interest include the development of a website for discussion and presentation of new educational technologies, and a survey tool to be used to assess the current state of adoption/use of eLuminate. David Meyers reported that the UTC meeting had been cancelled. Discussions Rick Weems on the status of the MyUA Portal Rick Weems is a member of the Statewide UA Portal coordinating team. He discussed the current deployment status of the MyUA Portal. His presentation touched on many important topics that affect when deployment will happen. These topics include

• Autonomy issues that have grown for some time and need to be addressed. • Electronic mail server issues: POP3 creates problems • Timeout intervals: some of the facilities available through MyUA have time out

intervals to protect privacy and security. If MyUA has a less restrictive time out policy, it could adversely affect privacy/security.

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• Semester start dates: there are 7 different dates. This creates issues for online enrollment and tuition refund protocols.

The discussion also included other issues of interest, but not necessarily related to the MyUA Portal. The topics included

• Use of digital imaging systems to reduce need for paper and to streamline procedures.

• Need for digital signature facilities if paper (and pen-and-ink signatures) is to be eliminated.

• Bubble sheets for grade reports will be phased out (the hardware is no longer supported).

• The need for communication between banner and blackboard to be two-way (it is currently one way only (from banner to blackboard).

Sally Mead on the deployment of an Instructional Designer Job Family Sally Mead led a discussion of the proposed Instructional Designer Job Family. The job family includes 4 levels of instructional design work ranging from technical support to design team management. The proposal evolved from work done by Teresa Derrickson. It is currently being considered by the Office of Human Resources, and is in draft form. The discussion focused on a number of issues including

• How can faculty be included (job families require staff status, and preclude faculty)

• Would it be possible for faculty interested in instructional design to secure releases that would allow them the time to pursue the interest?

• Intellectual property issues related to development of instructional design materials.

ACDLIT will continue this discussion using our blackboard shell, and possibly develop a motion to the Faculty Senate related to the issue. Business Items There was a brief discussion of the time that elapses between student evaluations of faculty and the receipt by faculty of the results of those evaluations. The consensus was that it takes an unacceptably long time to get the results of these evaluations. The status of our A to Z guide to technology page was discussed. We plan to clean it up and make some improvements. Kathi Baldwin mentioned that she has received requests for the continued support of this service. The meeting was adjourned at 4:02 PM Submitted by David Meyers

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FACULTY SENATE DIVERSITY COMMITTEE 3211 Providence Drive , Anchorage Alaska 99508

D r s R o b e r t B o e c k ma n n & J e a n n e E d e r , C o - c h a i r s .

DATE: 3 MARCH 2006 TO: Dr. Greg Protasel, Faculty Senate President

FROM: Rob Crosman, Secretary

SUBJECT: Committee Status Report. The sixth regular meeting for 2005-06 was held on 17 February in LIB 302, from 3:00 to

4:30 P.M. Present: Profs. Steven Aufrecht, Robert Boeckmann (Chair), Ping-Tung Chang, Robert

Crosman (secretary), Herminia Din, Patricia Fagan, Dave Fitzgerald, Sean Licka, Kemal Narang, Natasa Masanovic, Sudarsan Rangarajan.

The agenda was accepted and minutes of January’s meeting were approved. Members who had attended February’s meeting of the Faculty Senate reported the

approval there of our motion to send a letter from the Senate President in support of the ANPsych program to Chancellor Maimon. The motion passed was amended to include support of two other programs for Alaska Natives that might be threatened with funding cuts.

Prof. Boeckmann reported that he was still drafting the letter, with input from the UAF and UAA directors, Pam Dieter and Kathy Graves. Members of the committee congratulated him, and urged him to finish drafting the letter without undue concern for satisfying all constituencies. The contents being time-sensitive, the most important goal is to get the letter finished and sent.

Reports from sub-committees: Sub-committee #1, [diversity training for new and returning faculty. Members: Robert

Crosman (convener), Natasa Masanovic, Dennis Howard. Short-term goals: expand faculty and staff training on diversity issues; develop strategies for retaining diverse faculty; offer support for our colleagues from abroad teaching at UAA.] Discussion focused on certain issues: Should we target primarily new faculty, in hopes of educating them and helping them form good teaching habits relative to diversity, or should we stress the need for interventions with those faculty about whom complaints have been made? One member urged preservation of due process and confidentiality in the latter cases. Another worried that new faculty can be in culture shock.

Sub-committee #2, [bring speakers on diversity issues to UAA. Members: P.-T. Chang (convener), Sam Thiru, Sean Licka, Jeanne Eder. Goals: develop a list of possible speakers, including bell hooks, Sacagawea (portrayed by Dr. Eder); Prof. Helena Jermalovic’s father, a holocaust survivor. Long-term goals: contact AFN as a source of speakers (next October AFN meets again in Anchorage); service awards for Native elders; develop a list of names to suggest for honorary degrees.]

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Speakers in view: [this semester] Dr. Patricia Arrodondo (expert in diversity training and evaluation), Pablo Helguera, happening artist); [longer-range] Depak Chopra. The sub-committee will also confer with Prof. Ronald Spatz about commencement speakers.

Sub-committee #3, [finding ways of hiring more faculty of color. Members: Steve Aufrecht (convener); Rob Crosman, Patricia Fagan, Yong Cao. Short-term goal: consult Vice-Chancellor “Gub” Ejigu about the HR process. Long-term goals: identify and compile resources for recruiting diverse faculty; organize this information into a booklet for search committees.] Prof. Crosman confessed not to have convened this sub-committee, but promised to canvas all members of the FSDC about priorities and methods to meet our goals, and to tabulate and present these at the next committee meeting.

Sub-committee #4, [put sensitivity questions onto the student evaluation forms. Members: Robert Boeckmann (convener), Gopa Venugopalan, Dave Fitzgerald. Short term goals: to deal with IDEA company about developing effective questions; to deal with the faculty senate and unions about whatever problems exist with regard to our list of suggested questions; to deal with IDEA organizers prior to pilot in ‘06; to get Chancellor Maimon’s support for including such questions on the evaluation forms. Long-term goals: to incorporate sensitivity questions into SET voluntarily; to use sensitivity feedback to guide staff development activities.] Prof. Boeckmann reported that IDEA, the source of the evaluation form currently being tested for possible adoption at UAA, can customize the questionnaires to include questions on diversity provided by UAA. IDEA is also in the process of developing standard questions on diversity, but these are not currently available for adoption. Dr. Boeckmann also reported that he is planning a symposium on diversity issues for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, which meets in June at Long Beach, CA.

Time having expired, the final item on the meeting agenda was postponed to the next meeting. It is “Tolerance of Political Diversity in Faculty and Students” (a paper distributed at last meeting) – Should a faculty member’s personal politics enter the classroom? How? When? How should faculty respond to student views that contrast to his or her own?

• Next meeting: Next scheduled meeting will be on Friday, March 17th, 2005, 3:00 - 4:30 P.M. Consortium Library 302.

• Website: See the Website for the latest News Flash and the Diversity Scholarship Notices - http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/fsdc/diversity.html

* ACTION ITEMS: None.

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Graduate Academic Board Report February 2006

1. Program/Course Action Requests

CAS – PSY Chg PSY A611 Ethics and Professional Practice (3 cr) (3+0) CHSW – HS Chg Master of Public Health in Public Health Practice Chg HS A610 Environmental and Occupational Health (3 cr) (3+0) Chg HS A629 Public Health Research Tools and Methods (4 cr) (3+1) Chg HS A630 Public Health Emergencies and Disasters (3 cr) (3+0) Chg HS A699 Public Health Thesis (1-5 cr) (0+3-15) SOENGR Add Port and Coastal Engineering Graduate Certificate (Program)

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Alternative instruments for student description of instruction in graduate courses At its meeting on 24 February 2006, GAB passed a motion asking the Senate to consider (a) authorizing graduate programs to adopt alternative instruments for student description of instruction, and (b) expressly instructing both college peer review committees and the University-wide Faculty Evaluation Committee to accept these program-approved instruments as evidence of teaching effectiveness. Background: This matter was brought to GAB by the WWAMI Biomedical Program faculty. The Biomedical Program is currently required to have the medical students complete two different descriptive forms for every instructor: the current standard UAA paper Student Description of Instruction System (SDIS) form, and an online form for the University of Washington. This is burdensome for the students (who have typically 8 to 10 different instructors each semester) and results in low completion rates (especially for instructors whose courses appear late in the spring curriculum). The UW form is customizable and can have questions added to it, thus if the pertinent UAA items were inserted it would cover everything necessary in one form. It seems likely that other graduate and professional programs, such as those in Nursing, will also welcome the ability to have their students describe their classroom experience in ways other than through the UAA SDIS form (soon to be replaced by the IDEA system). For this reason, a general change, rather than one applying only to the Biomedical program, is being sought. A concern for faculty members in these programs is that college peer review committees and the University-wide Faculty Evaluation Committee may not immediately consider an alternative descriptive instrument as an adequate or acceptable indicator of teaching performance. It is unclear which (if any) University policy specifies that the SDIS be utilized in retention, promotion and tenure reviews, to the exclusion of other survey instruments. Board of Regents Policy says only that effectiveness in teaching is “Demonstrated by such things as…reaction of students as determined by surveys of the classroom…,” UAA Policies and Procedures for faculty evaluation files states that files must include “student course evaluation summaries for the review years,” and the United Academics CBA says only that “The file shall contain materials appropriate for the purpose of the review being conducted.”

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Library Advisory Committee Faculty Senate Report and Meeting Minutes

February 3, 2006

In attendance: Anne Bridges, Ashley Hice, Janice High, Garry Kaulitz, Cora Neal, Steve Rollins Dean Rollins gave the committee an update on the activities of the Consortium Library. On December 14th, the Consortium Library and University Advancement hosted a reception to recognize the efforts of several individuals and to thank the Rasmuson Foundation for their $1,000,000 grant in support of the Alaska Virtual Library and Digital Archives program. The Davis Family generously donated four paintings, two by Jules Dahlager, one by Sydney Laurence, and one by Eustace Ziegler, which will be on permanent display in the library. Alden Todd and his son donated to the library, Abraham Lincoln: A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. This ten-volume work is the most comprehensive biography on Lincoln. The library also received 20 works by contemporary Alaskan artists from a resident of Anchorage who wishes to remain anonymous. This collection will be first displayed in March and then on a rotating basis as part of the library’s art collections. In March, the library’s art gallery on the main floor will display a calligraphy exhibit organized by Hiroko Harada, chair of UAA’s Languages Department. On the third floor, the All State Alaska High School Art Show will be on display. And for something a bit different, the library will be home for 1,000 paper cranes for most of the spring semester. Thanks to UAA honors student, Umair Igbal, students from the Anchorage middle schools are making origami cranes as part of the Model U.N. program. The cranes will be on display until they are shipped to Japan to their permanent home at the Hiroshima International School. Dean Rollins gave a presentation on the Digital Archives, which is an amazing collection of cross-referenced photographs, moving images, maps and physical objects from libraries, museums, and archives throughout Alaska. I encourage you to take a look at the wealth of information contained there. The Digital Archives can be accessed at www.SLED.alaska.edu. Each month the Library Advisory Committee tries to have a presentation on some aspect of the library. In March we will hear from Sally Bremen about HSIS and health resources. In April we hope to hear from Kevin Keating about the library instruction program. Meetings are held at 11:45 on the first Friday of each month in the Dean’s Conference room on the third floor of the library. Anyone who is interested may attend.

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Student Academic Success Committee Meeting Minutes

February 24, 2006 (revised 2/2/06) Persons in attendance: Gail Johnston, Sarah Kirk, Debbie Narang, Connie Fuess, Kathleen Voge, Kamal Narang, and Tom Skore, Dave Fitzgerald, and Lauren Bruce Guest Speakers: Linda Lazzell, Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs Vara Allen-Jones – Assistant Vice Chancellor - Academic and Multicultural Student Services Item 1L Attrition at UAA – Update on Progress Below is a summary of the committee members’ and guests’ collective knowledge regarding the status of the Prioritized Recommendations from the Attrition Committee dated November 5, 2004.

Item Brief Description Feb. 24, 2006 Status / Responsibility

Enhance course placement – Item 1a

Require placement test scores for students prior to registration

Done. Non-mechanical interventions have been implemented for students who test into ESL or PRPE courses.

Enhance course placement – Item 1b

Validate Accuplacer test scored.

Completed. Faculty are completing this. There is a need to validate results with OPRA. Need to check with Gary Rice to create a report on reduction of attrition.

tEnhance academic support – Item 2a

Map existing academic support programs.

What can help faculty point students in the right direction? On-line resources? Funding is needed. Are more paper resources required?

Enhance academic support – Item 2b

Coordinate new and existing academic support resources.

Yes, new web page available (http://edit.uaa.alaska.edu/advising-testing/academic/). Newly added advisor advertising in class schedules. New student checklists provided. A pathway for faculty and staff advisors is also needed.

Enhance academic support – Item 2c

Create a Supplemental Instruction Program where attrition levels are high.

Completed for three courses.

Enhance academic support – Item 2d

Create a Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum program.

A few meetings have taken place by interested faculty through CAFÉ. April 2006 planning underway.

Enhance academic support – Item 2e

Create on-going mini-grant pool for experimental support programs.

Unsure if progress made. Some money is available, though, not certain if this is included in those larger pools.

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Item Brief Description Feb. 24, 2006 Status / Responsibility

Reinforce effective educational practices – Item 3a

Provide additional faculty development opportunities.

Done. Thanks to CAFÉ.

Reinforce effective educational practices – Item 3b

Continue CAFÉ’s New Faculty Seminar Series

Done. Series is continuing.

Reinforce effective educational practices – Item 3c

Implement week-long, paid, new faculty, pre-contract training.

No pre-contract training…though updated / enhanced training occurring.

Reinforce effective educational practices – Item 3d

Design and implement a week-long training to assist faculty with integration of technology.

Done. Technology Fellows Program held in Spring 2005.

Increase access to orientation – Item 4a

Increase access to orientation.

Done. Lora Volden reported orientation activities to SAS Committee in Fall 2005. Orientation / Student Affairs reorganized in March 2005. Newer initiatives include TRIO program and the peer advising program. Various avenues of increasing student access to orientation are being reviewed which include the use of technology to provide access to non-traditional and out of town students. The use of technology as a means of orientation is not meant to replace face-to-face orientation. More funding must come through PBAC process. Students still need some type of “hook” to make orientation even more desirable. Ideas include having orientation participant-only course sections, where seats in a section of a course will be held open and made available only to those students attending orientation. Some colleges welcome events for students throughout their first year. Other ideas / activities include peer ambassadors, “head start” programs, etc.

Increase general and academic advising – Item 5a

Provide additional trained advisors for first-time freshmen.

There are more trained advisors…though not enough. Yes. Confirmed by Vara Allen-Jones.

Increase general and academic advising – Item 5b

Link placement testing to timely advising.

ACCUPLACER testing is now available for many hours per week with no waiting. Students who place into ESL or PRPE courses have immediate advising by CPDS faculty available. ACCUPLACER may be offered in the Anchorage School District.

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Item Brief Description Feb. 24, 2006 Status / Responsibility

Increase general and academic advising – Item 5c

Offer faculty training in academic advising.

Done through CAFÉ sessions. More is needed.

Increase general and academic advising – Item 5d

Hire trained faculty to provide summer academic advising.

General advising is being provided by professional staff positions. Department chairs are usually expected to handle summer advising loads for continuing, transfer, and degree-seeking students in their major.

Increase general and academic advising – Item 5e

Develop additional peer mentoring and advising programs (student to student).

Unknown.

Commit university resources – Item 6a

Provide staff, training, and financial support to increase access to orientation, placement testing, and advising.

Reorganization is complete. Testing and advising is moving forward. GRE now web-based with no long waits for students. Everything is being done on-line. If all first time degree-seeking students were assessed an orientation fee, that would fund all orientation events and needs.

Commit university resources – Item 6b

Target groups for mandatory orientation, advising, and placement upon admission.

AHAINA, Native Student Services, and DSS are working with Orientation to make sure that students in identified groups are included in orientation activities and that their specific needs are addressed.

Commit university resources – Item 6c

Create tracking systems to identify ongoing needs and to target assistance to high-risk groups.

Patty Itchoak has a tracking system that is currently in test mode. Vara Allen-Jones will send the SAS committee this information via e-mail. The system is linked to BANNER (BANNER advising?). It provides the ability to track advising information, student appointments, and referrals from advising contacts. Secure site with approvals needed for access.

Commit university resources – Item 6d

Evaluate and sustain ongoing efforts to lower course attrition and improve student retention and success.

Through coordination with Academic and Multicultural Student Services (Tara Koeckritz) and a faculty committee, a report on Supplemental Instruction (SI) is being finalized. An Executive Summary of the report was provided. Results indicate that SI was a SUCCESS!

Commit university resources – Item 6e

Continue support for faculty development in best practices pedagogy.

Done. Though CAFÉ funding, like all funding, is at risk. This is the first year where CAFÉ experienced under funding.

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Action Items / Follow-Up Required for Future Spring 2006 Meetings:

• Reserving seats in specific courses / sections for first time degree seeking students who attend orientation. Vara Allen-Jones will gather information about what courses first time freshmen are registering for. Follow-up in April meeting.

• SAS will invite Gary Rice to one of the March meeting. • Investigate the Patty Itchoak and a tracking system for advising students. • Item 2a. Mapping. Connie Fuess will work with Vara on this in the future. • The Supplemental Instruction (SI) program needs to be recommended for continuation

past the Spring 2006 semester. The recommendation should be addressed to Linda Lazell to request more funding need—initiative funding —so that she can take this request/recommendation to PBAC. We need another year to collect data on how well SI is working. Vara Allen-Jones will send a two-page SI information to be included with Faculty Senate minutes. SAS will gather all the information needed to inform Faculty Senate and ask for them to endorse our recommendation.

Upcoming Meetings: Friday, March 31 Friday, April 28

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Undergraduate Academic Board Report January 2006 to February 2006

Program/Course Action Request January (courses left off report)

A. CAS - ART Chg ART A202 Beginning Wheelthrown Ceramics (3cr)(0+6) Chg ART A215 Beginning Printmaking (3cr)(0+6)

Add ART A314 Printmaking-Litho/Serigraphy (3cr)(0+6) Chg ART A390 Selected Topics in Studio Art (3cr)(0+6)

B. COE - EDFN

Chg EDFN A300 Philosophical and Social Context of American Education

(3cr)(3+0) Chg EDFN A303 Foundations of Teaching and Learning (3cr)(3+0)

February

A. CAS - ART Chg ART A272 Beginning Fiber-Sculpture (3cr) (0+6) Chg ART A315 Intermediate Printmaking (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A361 History of Graphic Design (3 cr)(3+0)

Chg ART A372 Intermediate Fiber-Sculpture (3 cr)(0+6)

Chg ART A401 Advanced Handbuilt Ceramics (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A402 Advanced Wheelthrown Ceramics (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A405 Experimental Drawing (3 cr)(0+6) Add ART A407 Life Drawing and Composition II (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A409 Advanced Metalsmithing & Jewelry (3 cr)(0+6)

Chg ART A411 Advanced Sculpture (3 cr)(0+6)

Chg ART A412 Advanced Watercolor Painting (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A413 Advanced Painting (3 cr)(0+6)

Chg ART A414 Senior Painting Projects (3 cr)(0+6)

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Chg ART A415 Advanced Printmaking (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A424 Advanced Photography (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A453 Illustration II (3 cr)(0+6) Add ART A456 3-D Digital Animation (3 cr) (0+6)

Chg ART A471 Advanced Surface Design (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A472 Advanced Fiber-Sculpture (3 cr)(0+6) Chg ART A473 Advanced Woven Forms (3 cr)(0+6) Add ART A490 Selected Topics in Studio Art (1-3 cr)(0+2-6)

Add ART A492 Art History Seminar (3 cr)(3+0)

Chg ART A495 Practicum (1-3 cr)(0+2+0-6)

B. CAS - CS/MATH Chg CS A360 Database Systems (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A385 Computer Graphics (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A395 Internship in Computing (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A401 Software Engineering (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A405 Artificial Intelligence (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A413 Computer and Data Security (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A431 Compilers: Concepts and Techniques (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A448 Computer Architecture (3 cr)(3+0) Chg CS A470 Applied Software Development Project (3 cr)(3+0)

Chg Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science

Chg Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Chg Minor, Computer Science

Chg Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics

Chg Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

Chg Bachelor of Science, College of Arts and Sciences

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March 3, 2006 Undergraduate Academic Board Report Page 3 January and February 2006

C. CAS – LANG Del FREN A105 French Immersion Retreat I (1 cr) (1+0)

Del FREN A205 French Immersion Retreat II (1 cr) (1+0) Del FREN A305 French Immersion Retreat III (1 cr) (1+0)

Add FREN A306 Advanced French Conversation and Composition (1-3 cr) (1-3+0)

Add RUSS A390B Focused Topics in Russian (1-3 cr) (1-3+0)

D. CAS – SOC

Chg SOC A110 Introduction to Gerontology: Multidisciplinary Approach (3 cr) (3+0)

Chg SOC A488 Capstone Seminar (3 cr)(3+1)

E. COE – EDEC Chg EDEC A403 Mathematics and Science in Early Childhood (3 cr) (3+0) Chg EDEC A404 Literacy for Young Children I (3 cr) (3+0) Chg EDEC A405 Literacy for Young Children II (3 cr) (3+0) Chg EDEC A406 Creative Expression in Early Childhood (3 cr) (3+0) Chg EDEC A495C Internship I, Primary (3 cr) (0+9) Chg EDEC A495D Internship II, Primary (6 cr) (0+18) F. CTC - AAVI Chg Associate of Applied Science, Aviation Administration Chg Associate of Applied Science, Air Traffic Control Chg BSAT, Air Traffic Control Emphasis

Add ATC (prefix) – Aviation Technology / Air Traffic Control

Add ATP (prefix) – Aviation Technology / Professional Piloting Add ATA (prefix) – Aviation Technology / Administration/Management G. CTC – DA Chg Associate of Applied Science in Dental Assisting Chg Certificate in Dental Assisting Add DA A101 Essentials of Dentistry (3 cr) (3+0)

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March 3, 2006 Undergraduate Academic Board Report Page 4 January and February 2006 Add DA A102 Infection Control in Dentistry (2-3 cr)(2+2)(2+0) Chg DA A110 Dental Radiography (3 cr) (3+0) Chg DA A110L Dental Radiography Lab (1 cr) (0+2) Add DA A130 Chairside Techniques I (4 cr) (2+4) Add DA A150 Biomedical and Dental Sciences for Dental Assistants (3 cr)

(3+0) Add DA A160 Materials in Dentistry (3 cr) (2+2) Add DA A201 Chairside Techniques II (4 cr) (2+4) Add DA A202 Dental Specialties for Dental Auxiliaries (3 cr) (2+2) Add DA A295A Clinical Practicum II (3 cr) (0+15) Add DA A295B Clinical Practicum III (2 cr) (0+5) H. CTC – MEDT Chg Associate of Applied Science, Medical Laboratory Technology Chg Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology Add MEDT A110 Specimen Processing (3 cr) (3+0)

Chg MEDT A132 Introduction to Laboratory Medicine (3 cr) (2+2)

Add MEDT A133 Basic Techniques in Laboratory Medicine (1 cr) (1+0) Chg MEDT A202 Clinical Chemistry (6 cr) (3+6)

Chg MEDT A203 Clinical Microbiology (6 cr) (3+6)

Chg MEDT A204 Hematology and Coagulation (6 cr) (3+6) Chg MEDT A206 Immunology and Blood Banking (6 cr) (3+6) Chg MEDT A208 Urine and Body Fluid Analysis (3 cr) (2+2) Chg MEDT A301 Clinical Molecular Biology (4 cr) (3+3)

Chg MEDT A303 Advanced Clinical Microbiology (4 cr) (3+3)

I. KPC - PE

Chg PER A275 Advanced T’ai Chi (1 cr) (.5+1)

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Research Culture - 1

Ad hoc Faculty Senate “Research Culture” Committee Reports on December 2, 2005; January 27, 2006; and February 17, 2006, Meetings

December 2, 2005, Meeting # Discussion of the survey centered on appropriately assessing faculty attitudes and support needs

across disciplines. # Judith Moore and Alpana Desai provided guidelines for creative, scholarly, and professional

activities for the English Department and the College of Business and Public Policy, respectively. # Kat Tomka provided a list of obstacles to creative activity particular to the arts. # Lauren Bruce, Director of CAFÉ, and Doug Causey, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate

Studies have been requested to critique the completed survey in advance of distribution. Lauren has assented to provide her assistance.

# Chris Sturm of eMedia was contacted for information on online tools available at UAA to create a

web-based survey and has provided the committee with information and an offer of assistance. # Tim Hinterberger agreed to request the participation of UAF faculty in this survey once a finalized

survey is available. # An article provided by Patrick Gilham was distributed to committee members: “Colleges Focused

on Teaching Too Often Neglect Research” by Paula M. Krebs. January 27, 2006, Meeting # A report was made on the Chancellor’s Research Grant award process. All applicants were

provided to with ratings of the individual sections of their proposals as well as the overall consensus of the rating body. This feedback was helpful and very much appreciated.

# Discussion of the survey contents and organization continued.. # The committee agreed to a three-part survey to assess: 1. Attitudes regarding the importance of research activity by faculty. 2. Helpfulness of available services in support of faculty research productivity. 3. Perceived obstacles to faculty research productivity. (The Council in Sponsored Research

has collected a list of “Barriers to Research at UAA” which will be utilized for this purpose.) # Faculty sponsors for Psi Chi and AKD, the psychology and sociology national honor societies for

psychology and sociology, respectively, were contacted in an effort to secure student assistance in creating a draft of the proposed web-based survey.

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Research Culture - 2

February 17, 2006, Meeting # Discussion of the survey contents and organization continued.. # A web-based version of the survey was made available to the committee members by Robert

Boeckmann. # Suggested revisions to the survey structure were also distributed.. # A revised hard copy of the survey will be distributed to committee members in advance of the next

meeting as well as information as to how to access the web-based survey draft.. # It was agreed that the survey will also be made available to all other University of Alaska

campuses. # The committee proposes to distribute this survey to faculty in the fall of 2006. The next committee meeting is scheduled for March 27, 2006, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Prepared by: Mari Ippolito / 3-1-06

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