-:: Chancellor's Strategic Planning Task Force
Academics
CHARGE
Recognizing that the curriculum was not an issue with any representative group, the academic group will focus more on the “structure” of academic life at UMB.
PROPOSED ISSUES:
- Faculty workload: teaching, research and service (what does a 2/2 mean?)
- Enhance teaching effectiveness
- Class size
- Credit hours per course
- Number of courses relative to enrollment
- Part-time faculty
- Recruitment of faculty
- Faculty retirement projections
- Junior faculty retention plan
- Advising strategies for students
- Mentoring strategies for faculty; faculty professional development
- Faculty compensation
- Recognition for outstanding service
- International Strategy
- Student Learning Outcomes
- Organization of graduate studies (with research)
- Structure of CCDE
- “15 × 10” – academic involvement in increasing enrollment