Three-Year Action Plan, Reorganization, Educational Partnerships, Speakers
10/10/2018
Report to the Board of Trustees – October 2018
(Outline for delivery)
Introduction
- Welcome new trustee, Thomas Needles.
- My report will be brief to allow time for other speakers.
Key Topics
- Three-Year Action Plan
- Our primary focus this fall is the creation of an inclusive, realistic and actionable 3-Year Action Plan by the end of December.
- Our timetable is tight because the plan will inform:
- the 2019/2020 university budget, and
- the search for the next president.
- The Process
- The 3-Year Plan process, which began October 2, will be similar in structure to the APR and AAR processes.
- Unit-level reports – both academic and administrative – will be created then compiled into division/college-level reports. These reports then will be compiled by senior administration into a University-level report.
- We will seek input from Faculty Senate and University Council.
- The plan will be submitted to the Board in early December and finalized by the end of December.
- Budget process will begin in January
- Data from APR and AAR will make our work on the 3-Year Action Plan much easier.
- Clarification:
- A few people have misread a recent communication about our reorganization proposals. They thought it referenced the APR and AAR processes. I repeat: those processes are complete and the AAR report is being finalized.
- However, there is a change to the timing for consideration of the reorganization proposals.
- Our primary focus this fall is the creation of an inclusive, realistic and actionable 3-Year Action Plan by the end of December.
- Reorganization
- The timeline for the reorganization planning has been extended to February 1, 2019.
- I want to give special thanks to:
- Chairman Gingo
- Linda Saliga (Faculty Senate)
- Phil Allen (University Council)
- Julie Cajigas (AAUP) for their input and cooperation
- Discussion with these and other individuals have made it clear that more time is needed to study the reorganization proposals.
- Many good ideas have been received from colleagues. Discussions will continue and I look forward to bringing to the February 20129 Board meeting a fully developed recommendation.
- For now, we will focus on the 3-Year Action Plan.
- The timeline for the reorganization planning has been extended to February 1, 2019.
- New Educational Partnerships Are Helping Us To “Widen the Education Pipeline in С»ÆѼÊÓƵ”
- Last month we announced a Sister University program with С»ÆѼÊÓƵ Public Schools that includes:
- Ellet High School
- the National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM High School
- and the С»ÆѼÊÓƵ Early College High School.
- This program includes:
- Closer engagement with high school faculty
- to develop classroom lessons
- Designing new learning opportunities
- Implementing college admission testing preparation programs
- Summer and college enrichment opportunities
- Workshops for students and parents on the college admission process
- Another initiative is a kind of informal partnership that the Board will consider at this meeting. The Urban STEM Education Center will engage our faculty with private and public-school teachers throughout the region.
- The Center will reside in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education.
- It will benefit teachers from school systems throughout our region by offering expanded teacher education programs focusing on STEM offerings at K-12 levels, and by conducting research on the efficacy of these programs.
- The third partnership agreement is with Stark State College, of which I can say very little publicly at this time.
- We will be at Stark State’s С»ÆѼÊÓƵ campus on Friday morning for a joint announcement.
- The details of that announcement have been embargoed until that time.
- What I can say is that we have had a very good collaborative relationship with that institution, and that collaboration will grow even stronger.
- We will be at Stark State’s С»ÆѼÊÓƵ campus on Friday morning for a joint announcement.
- Last month we announced a Sister University program with С»ÆѼÊÓƵ Public Schools that includes:
Introduction of Speakers:
- Career Services
- I will now turn over my time to a few other speakers who will share some important information with you.
- Before I do, however, I want to comment about a presentation that will be part of the Academic Issues and Student Success Committee Report.
- Laura Carey is the director of the Career Services Office, and she’ll tell us more about that unit and what it does.
- I want to point out that Career Services is one of those offices that somehow maintains a low-profile despite having a huge impact on the lives of our students and recent graduates.
- For example, the career fairs they put on last week were a great success, as they are every year.
- When I was dean of the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, I was aware of the critical work this office does to prepare our students for what comes right after graduation.
- I am glad you will have an opportunity to learn more about the important, if quiet, work this office performs for our students.
- I will now turn over my time to a few other speakers who will share some important information with you.
- Joint Committee on Ohio College Affordability Report
- At this time, I ask Lisa Dodge, and Drew Davidson of Sean P. Dunn & Associates of Columbus to come forward.
- Lisa and Drew are consultants who work with our government relations team on state issues and advise us on the latest developments from the Ohio Legislature and the Governor’s Office.
- They will provide a summary, and answer your questions, on the recently released report by the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Ohio College Affordability.
- At this time, I ask Lisa Dodge, and Drew Davidson of Sean P. Dunn & Associates of Columbus to come forward.
- ROTC 100th Anniversary
- Thank you, Lisa and Drew.
- This year marks the 100th Anniversary of our ROTC program.
- Chairman, I can think of no better way to conclude my report than by honoring this venerable program.
- I ask Mr. Nathan Mortimer, himself a respected veteran of our nation’s armed forces, to say a few words and introduce our speaker. Nathan?
- Thank you, Lisa and Drew.
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