UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

2005 – 2006

• LOOKING BACK– The “State of the School” 2002-2005

• LOOKING AHEAD– Action Plan for 2005-2006

LOOKING BACK

• 2002 Strategic Plan– Strategic Intentions

• Teaching • Scholarship and research• Interdisciplinary culture• Engagement• Communication

– Overriding themes• Enrollment growth• Diversity• Efficiency

TEACHING

• New Degree Programs– MS Recreation Management and Policy– DEMN– 4 yr BS in PE Pedagogy– MPH– MSW (Manchester)– OT Master’s Level Entry Program

• New Minors– Child Life– Adolescent and Youth Development– Public Health– Deaf and Hard of Hearing Studies

• New graduate certificates– Public Health Law– Cognate in College Teaching (Nursing)

• Articulation agreements

• New Courses– General Education Courses– Inquiry Courses

• Assessment– Full accreditation (for the maximum term) for

every program reviewed by national agencies– UNH Program Review for both graduate and

undergraduate programs

• Faculty – Substantial new hires of both tenure track and

clinical faculty– New senior hires– Instituted post-tenure review

• Faculty Development– FITSI participation– Inquiry Course development

LOOKING AHEAD

• Conversion of Gen Ed courses to Discovery courses

• Development of additional Inquiry Courses (we’ll need more than 10 each semester)

• No new academic programs• Large number of new hires (including

Director of the MPH Program)• Compelling need to focus on faculty

retention (theme for faculty breakfasts)

SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH

• Enhanced funding for faculty research– Faculty fellowships– Faculty guide (great success in receiving support from the Grad

School and the VP for Research’s Discretionary fund)– Grimes mini-grants– Carsey

• Welcomed Browne Center and IOD• Developed NHIHPP• Launched UNH Center on Adolescence• Increased overall sponsored support to more than $8

million

LOOKING AHEAD

• Re-issue Faculty Development Guide for 2005-2006

• Grimes RFP

• Faculty fellowships

• Carsey Seminars and Consulting Group

INTERDISCIPLINARY CULTURE

• LOOKING BACK– NHIHPP– IOD– Center on Adolescence– Town Meetings– Carsey

• LOOKING AHEAD– Carsey Seminars / Consulting

ENGAGEMENT

• LOOKING BACK– Established / Enhanced Department advisory

councils– Faculty and students worked in virtually every

health and human service agency in the State– McConnell Center in Dover (Social Work)– Continue to provide outstanding service

through a wide range of programs and efforts

• LOOKING AHEAD– Continue to sustain and enhance formal

advisory committees– Continue to explore ways to infuse School’s

service and outreach units into academic programs

– Focus on engaging HHS Grads in the work of the School (and in supporting the Annual Fund)

COMMUNICATION

• Looking Back– HHS Website– On line HHS Report– Faculty Data Base

ENROLLMENT GROWTH

• LOOKING BACK– Undergraduate majors increased from 1,508

(Fall 2001) to 1,601 (Fall 2004)– Undergraduate credit hours increased from

30,340 in AY02 to 40,245 in AY05 (33%)– Enrolled graduate students increased from

321 to 476 (full-time from 152 to 269)– Graduate tuition revenue increased from $2

million in AY02 to $3.8 million in AY05

• LOOKING AHEAD– NO MORE STUDENTS!!!!!!!!– Focus on sustaining prior growth– Recognize that some of the gains in

undergraduate credit hours may be lost

DIVERSITY

• LOOKING BACK– Considerable success in identifying diverse

candidate pools– Less (but still tangible) success in recruiting

diverse faculty members– Challenging attrition

• LOOKING AHEAD– Re-double efforts on recruitment– Focus on retention

EFFICIENCY

• LOOKING BACK– In Fall 2001, projected sizeable, continuing

deficits that would have drained reserves and amassed sizeable debt

– For FY05, surplus exceeded $500,000– Brought HHS reserves to a healthier 4% of

annual expenses (from less than 1% at our low point)

– Established modest Department reserves

• LOOKING AHEAD– Projecting smaller, but still respectable

surplus for FY06 and modest surpluses in the out years

– Continuing challenge of the UNH “structural deficit”

– The great unknowns of financial aid and energy

FACILITIES

• LOOKING BACK– AC in Hewitt– Minor New Hampshire Hall improvements

(Painting, partial AC, upgraded classroom and Alumni Room – “in progress”)

– Hewitt Computer lab– Installed wireless capability throughout

Pettee, Hewitt, and New Hampshire Halls

• LOOKING AHEAD– NEW HAMPSHIRE HALL AND THE

FIELDHOUSE MUST BE RENNOVATED

– New teaching / outreach “campus” for CSDC; MFT; CSD clinics; Seacoast Clinic; NE Passage; etc.

STRATEGIC PLANNING 2005?

• Minor tweaking of the 2002 Plan to– Recognize accomplishments since 2002– Review strategic intentions – Revise as necessary– In the context of the UNH Academic Plan, the

Campus Master Plan, and (possibly) the plan for the next capital campaign

LOOKING AHEAD

• HHS at the Whitt!

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