New activities beginning 2010
Creating/Improving degree programs
- Place degree offerings in VPA on firm footing (ongoing)
- Implement new Ph.D. programs in Cognitive & Learning Sciences and Social Sciences (target fall 2010)
- Incorporate digital media into communication program in Humanities (ongoing)
- Complete Humanities curriculum/course review (target fall 2010)
- Launch TESOL certificate in Humanities (target 2010-11)
- Explore programming courses for mathematical sciences majors (target 2010-11)
- Review of General Education program (target 2010-11)
- Propose new Ph.D./M.S. program in Exercise Science (target fall 2012)
Research and Programs
- Continue to strengthen life sciences programs as top CSA research priority through SFHI and replacement faculty hires in departments (ongoing)
- Key steps: continue revitalization of chemistry, biology; nurture exercise science
- Develop Great Lakes Research Center as new center for environmental research in CSA (target 2011-13)
Space
- Address space needs of Cognitive & Learning Sciences and Social Sciences via move of CLS to Meese Center (target 2011-2012)
- Develop research and teaching labs for Exercise Science (target summer-fall 2010)
- Address infrastructure needs in McArdle Theatre (target 2010-11)
- Continue planning for Visual & Performing Arts facilities expansion (ongoing)
- Address structural and infrastructural deficiencies in physics labs in Fisher Hall (target 2010 and ongoing)
Continue efforts to diversify faculty and students
- Seek funds for summer programs for students and high school teachers in CS, VPA (ongoing)
- HU/SS recruitment at community colleges (target 2010-11)
- Create Emerging Scholars Program in Mathematical Sciences (target 2010-11)
- Develop/support broader academic degree programs attractive to minority populations (ongoing)
(See Department Worksheets in Appendix 4 for details)
Report on activities identified in the 2007 Plan
Creating new degree programs
- Health & Physical Education degree (implemented, fall 2007)
- PhD and MS in Exercise Science (target Fall 2008: emphasis shifted to DPT – see below)
- Doctor in Physical Therapy (DPT)—(target Summer 2009: studied but tabled in spring 2010 because of budgetary uncertainty)
- 5 year BS-MS in chemistry—the graduate school is approving campus wide guidelines for BS-MS programs—(expect implementation in fall 2010)
- Interdisciplinary PhD in Atmospheric Physics (target start Fall 2007—implemented)
Assessing and improve current offerings
- Current Undergraduate Concentrations in Mathematics (review/update being completed during spring 2010)
- Differentiate Introductory Physics courses to target audience (implemented)
- Include additional international and cross-cultural issues in Humanities offerings: (Underway with significant progress accomplished by the hiring of new faculty in 2009 and 2010 who bring expertise in diverse literatures and postcolonial theory; also creating Peace Corps Masters/International Program in Rhetoric and Technical Communications)
- General Education (constant review & discussion within Gen. Ed Council; preliminary discussions during 2009-10; discussion and review campus-wide during 2010-11 academic year)
- ESL (moved into Humanities, on-going process of continuous improvement)
- Distance Learning Introductory Physics and Astronomy courses (implemented)
Creating Research Centers
- A proposed Green Chemistry research center is on hold pending faculty hires in that area.