 Spring 2013

 Financial breakpoint raises questions o Education or training? o Commodity or common good? o Reducing per credit costs vs. quality? o Past precedence/practice vs. new? o Future of residential experience?  No return to the past  Unprecedented time of opportunity and change

 Emerging from severe budget cuts  New leadership at upper levels  Long term interim positions  Need to redefine sustainable direction  HLC assessment challenges  No clear plan for academics  University strategic plan expiring  Historic practices no longer financially viable  Trust and morale low

 Re-establish leadership principles and institutional values  Identify and take early actions in critical areas  Make master academic planning central to university strategic planning

 Open communication and information flow o Fall opening forum o Academic Affairs forums o Provost blog o College meetings o Open office hours o Expand dean’s council to academic council and post notes o Communicate regularly with all faculty/staff o Purposefully target university and community press releases  Promote collaborative learning o Create and offer course redesign grants o Provide new faculty scholarship grants  Promote community engagement and thinking globally o Add staff in career services to coordinate internship opportunities o Add staff in the international program center to recruit students and help with BSU students going aboard

 Examples included in the upcoming slides

 Agreement with the president on planning process for the year that included master academic planning and university strategic planning  Begin with creating Master Academic Plan in fall  Begin strategic planning and do both concurrently in spring  Merge the two

 Work with others to create Master Academic Plan o Ask for self-study from each academic program Provide info for a SWOT analysis for each department Develop set of 10 indicators to use to guide analysis Provide info for regional, state, national review of data o Categorize all programs as: Sustain Grow Revise Create new o Identify programmatic direction from program self-studies o Create college grids showing future directions by program o Set 4-5 focus areas overall for academic affairs for next 3-5 years

 Arrived at four focus areas for next 3-5 years o Financial sustainability o International competitiveness o Academic distinctiveness o Organizational structure to support other three areas

 Set expectations/criteria for every program  Develop additional distance delivered programs online and blended with national accreditation o Twin cities o National o International  Move distance programs to 80/20 revenue sharing model  Pilot new budgeting model with CBTC

 Form CIBT/KGIC Partnership o Attend international fairs o Enter into student recruitment contract o Up the number of visiting professors o Implement summer camps for international students o Work to help bring Chinese immersion teachers to the Twin Cities o Create programmatic agreements CEAIE/AASCU membership Explore ECE, Nursing, Technology, and Engineering related agreements with Sprott-Shaw College in Vancouver, B.C. Explore agreement for Teacher Education in Lucerne and Beijing Explore international partnership for MBA launch

 Expand Fulbright opportunities for faculty and students  Secure slots for students to teach abroad through CIBT    Secure slots for faculty to teach abroad through CIBT  Secure slots for faculty projects abroad through CIEE  Develop ‘Passport program’ for students

 Provide student exchanges with 12 universities for under $1,000 a semester above cost of attending BSU o Reykjavik, Iceland; Tromse, Norway; Lucerne, Switzerland o U of Comoros, Comoros Islands o HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia o Kyung Hee U, Seoul, Korea o Beijing (2), Dalian, Shenyang, Weifang, Guangzhou, China o Northern Argentina; Recife, Brazil still to secure o Vancouver, B.C. Canada still to secure o University of Surabaya (UBAYA), Indonesia still to secure

 Partnership with University of North Dakota o BSU office to be established through external funding  Federal immigrant investor program  State of Minnesota jurisdiction

 Affordable semester abroad opportunities for all BSU students  and 2+2 agreements internationally with multiple programs  Recruitment of international students  Collaboration with two year colleges o International pathways via PathPro through AASCU o Semester abroad opportunities for their students o Joint recruiting of international students  Collaboration with Tribal Colleges o Create shared courses using GLN o Provide their students semester abroad opportunities

 MBA, MAT approvals  International 3/1/1 pathways to graduate degrees with international partners  Move to revenue sharing funding models  Rethink Graduate Office staffing/responsibilities

 Expand student-faculty research efforts to include state event  Establish research and sponsored programs office  Recreate library into learning commons  Create manufacturing educational center in Bemidji o Student entrepreneurship/innovation/incubator o FAB lab o Business services

 Provide course redesign small grants o Collaborative learning principles o Interdisciplinary o Project-based/experiential  Create distinctiveness o Writing across the curriculum o Indigenous Studies o Environmental Sustainability o Allied Health  Provide multiple credentials for students  Expand internships

 Funds for scholarly pursuit for new faculty  Promote pursuit of external funding opportunities  Work towards creation of research and sponsored programs center

 Promote incorporation of service learning into existing courses  Move towards all students must have one: o Service learning o Internship o Practicum  Provide career services for life

 Organize task force to recommend BSU/NTC merger  Organize Internationalization Task Force  Create College of Applied Technology  Move interim leadership positions to permanent positions  Create Academic Affairs Council  Appoint faculty coordinators for: o Fulbright scholarships o Passport program creation o International Relations Director