Guest:Mike Williford, Assoc.Provost for Institutional Research and Assessment
Announcements:
•Chairs were instructed to notify Dewald of candidates for Promotion and Tenure as soon as possible.
•Five departments have reviewed the draft college workload policy, and no major issues have been reported.The goal is to have a formal policy in place by Q2S implementation.
•Chairs were asked to nominate one excellent teacher for class visitation by Ogles during Winter quarter.
First-year Probation Statistics:
Probation statistics for 2003-08 for first-time first-year students by college after Fall Quarter, for first-time and transfer students placed on probation after Fall Quarter university-wide and by college, and for 2001-07 first-year retention by college were provided.Asleson reported that an effort was made to enroll all undecided Arts and Sciences freshmen in learning communities during Fall 2009-10.The college traditionally has had 20% on probation after Fall, but with advising and probation workshops, most students improve.
Institutional Research Resources:
Mike Williford gave an overview of the information available from his office and how to access it.The Institutional Research (IR) web site has tabs for Regional Campuses, Students, Faculty and Staff, Departments and Colleges, and the University, as well as a Restricted Access tab.The latter requires an Oak ID and password.If data is not yet on the site, call or e-mail IR to see if the information is available. Compendium information is available in the Department and College data.
The Board of Regents has devised a new taxonomy for assigning weights to faculty teaching, and OU is creating weights for 23 levels of instruction based on instructor/student ratios.Old and new weights may be calculated by using the Query Builder in the Restricted Access site.
Budget:
OU’s Budget Planning Council based it planning efforts on the state share of instruction of 4% in the Governor’s budget ; however, only 2% was approved in House Bill 1 ($2.2M less than anticipated).A $10.4M budget cut for FY11 is certain, which does not include increases in utility and health care and other costs nor any tuition increases.The College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Voinovich School and WOUB were particularly hard hit.House Bill 1 set a cap of 3.5% on tuition increases for FY10 and FY11.University budget planning scenarios drafted for discussion purposes include tuition increases of 2.2% for FY10 and 3.5% for FY11 and FY12, and increases in faculty salaries of 0% for FY10 and 3% for FY11 and FY12. (A 1% increase in OU’s current resident tuition would result in $1.2M, and a 1% increase in faculty salaries would equal $731,000.)Tuition increases will be approved by the Board of Regents only upon proof of cuts in expenditures.OU’s expenditures have increased during the current fiscal year.
Ogles proposed a scenario in which chairs would rank administrative and classified staff as a basis for the college executive staff to implement cuts.Chairs argued that staff positions with the same titles perform different functions in different departments, and the time and effort required to inform the executive staff of the importance of their staff positions would be prohibitive and the outcome would result in tensions between departments.They indicated a preference to develop departmental plans for a 10% cut, and Ogles set the end of Fall quarter as the deadline for plans.Following the development of individual plans, a central plan developed by the college office will be compared with the distributed plan.Chairs will then have the chance to review, compare, and discuss alternatives as we prepare to submit a final plan along with the consequences of such a reduction.
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