Fall 2016Faculty Meeting August 24, 2016

William J. Rugg, Ph.D.Provost and Vice Chancellor

for Academic Affairs

AGENDA

• “Welcome Back!”

• New Faculty and Academic Staff

• College, Department, Division Reports

• Math at MSUN

• Academic Affairs – Updates

• NWCCU Accreditation Visit – Oct. 10-12

• Q and A

Welcome Back!• Greg Kegel, Chancellor

• Dr. William Rugg, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

New Administration

• Dr. Steve Wise – Dean of Students

• Dr. Larry Strizich – Dean, COTS (from Interim)

• Dr. Brian Heuett – Director of SSS (TRIO)

• Lori Borth – Director of Veterans Upward Bound (TRIO in Billings)

• Director of HR – TBD

• Director/Dean of Nursing - TBD

New Faculty• Dr. Samantha Balemba-Brownlee – Criminal Justice

• Dr. Jack Bieger – Criminal Justice

• Dr. Valerie Guyant - English

• Maureen Odegard – Education

• Jamie Duke – Nursing

• Kasthuri Udayakumar – Nursing

• Brandon Matson - Diesel Technology

• Chuck Terry - Welding

New Academic Staff

• Amy Skryja- Admin. Associate II, Chancellor’s Office

• Mary Brown – Admin. Assoc. II, Dean’s Office, COTS

• Jody Heuett – Manager, Media Reprographics

• Richard Wells – Tutor Coordinator, SSS (TRIO)

• Debbie Winegar – Admin. Assoc. III, Nursing

• Denise Rugg – Admin. Assoc. II TAACCCT IV, Nursing

New Academic Staff (cont’d.)

• Lindsay Brandt-Bennett – Curriculum Developer

• Jason Geer- Instruct. Designer/D2L Tech. Support

• Erica McKeon-Hanson – Director, Little River Institute (NASANTI grant)

– Pathfinders (Tutors): Will Lorett-Science; Alissa Cook-Writing; Jade Failing-Math

College Updates

Dr. Larry Strizich, Dean and Steven Don, Chair-COTS

• Challenges and Changes in the college

Dr. Carol Reifschneider, Interim Dean and Norton Pease, Chair-CEASN

• Challenges and Changes in the college

College Updates

Arlys Williams, Chair ASN program in Nursing

• Challenges and Changes in the department

Extended UniversityThe Faculty Professional Development

Hub for MSU-Northern

NWCCU Core Theme 1, Objective 2:

“Cultivate Teaching and Learning Excellence”

Extended University coordinates, facilitates, and provides a comprehensive faculty professional

development program that is useful, engaging, and fun!

TECH SNACKS: Delivering a new adventure to your classroom every week!

Tech Snacks

• Weekly, 15-minute professional development sessions

• Multiple times and locations every Friday• “Tech” = “Technology” and “Technique”• We provide the snacks and coffee!• Now also streaming on Facebook,

www.facebook.com/extendeduniversity

PodcastingPodcasts are like pre-recorded radio shows. Many people have apps on their phones for downloading and listening to podcasts. They are easy to make with little investment.

A podcast can be used by an instructor to quickly add content to areas where students are having trouble, as a supplement to class content, or as an alternative way to deliver content to students.

Podcasts can be hosted on D2L, so your students can listen to them from their computers or phones.

Jason Geer, our new Instructional Designer, is available to help you record both audio and video, and create podcast content for your online and face-to-face classes!

Podcasting

Tech Snack StoriesTech Snack Stories are short audio and video stories about everyday teaching barriers, and ideas for overcoming them.

Our first episode takes a look at a question pretty much all of our instructors are asking themselves: How can we connect better with millennials in the classroom?

Keep an eye out for an email introducing our first Story.

Curriculum DeveloperLindsey Brandt-Bennett joined Extended University last spring as our Curriculum Developer. She is available to assist instructors with:• Syllabi, course design, and lesson

planning for face-to-face and online instruction

• Help you explore new teaching activities, strategies, and technologies

Book ClubLindsey is excited to promote a Community of Practice among instructors at Northern with a new offering: A book club!

• Will meet weekly in Oct. & Nov. • Books will be provided• Date and time TBD• Space limited to 12• Email Lindsey to sign up

Contact our Extended University Faculty Support Staff

Lindsey Brandt-Bennett, Curriculum Developer265-3775, lindsey.brandt@msun.edu

Caleb Hutchins, Instructional Designer265-3701, caleb.hutchins@msun.edu

Jason Geer, Instructional Designer265-3730, jason.geer@msun.edu

Little River Institute

• Erica McKeon-Hanson,

Director, Little River Institute (NASANTI grant)

Student Union BuildingRooms 303 and 308

Ext. 3713

Pathfinders

Alissa Cook, Writing

Will Lorett, Science

Jade Failing, Math

Peer Mentors

Mia LameBull

Evie RedBoy

Seth-Allen Doney

Program DirectorErica McKeon-Hanson

Academic Senate and Faculty Union Updates

Lorren Schlotfeldt– President, MSUN Academic Senate and President of Local 4045, Federation of Teachers

• Link to Academic Senate page:

http://msun.edu/provost/senate/index.aspx

• Board of Regents website:

http://mus.edu/board/default.asp

BREAK!

10 Minutes Please!

Student Success Updates

Tracey Jette-Senior Director of Student Success

• http://msun.edu/admissions/

• http://msun.edu/advising/

Vande Bogart Library Updates

What’s Happening @ the Library

http://www.msun.edu

Vicki Gist, Library Director

Belinda Potter, Instruction & Reference Librarian

Learning Success Center Updates

Ligia Arango – Director, Learning Success Center

Also Disability Services and University Testing Center

• http://msun.edu/learningsuccesscenter/

• http://msun.edu/stuaffairs/disabilityserv/

Math at MSUN

Updates and Enhancements to the Math Program

Charles Pollington

Approximately 50% of students entering College

require remediation in Mathematics!

STEM PATH

M095 Intermediate Algebra

to

M121 College Algebra

M121 College Algebra

• Not to be used as a gatekeeper course!

• This course is NOT supposed to be the end, but the start of the STEM path. If a student takes this course it is to be assumed that they WILL take M112 Trig and a Calculus course.

• If your program requires M121 with no follow on course, you may need a reason for requiring it so that you can justify it to the state.

What does it mean to YOU?

• Currently you may allow students to use M121, M145 or STAT 216 for your program. In the future these courses MAY have different prerequisite courses that could lead to confusion.

• The suggestion is that you do NOT give the choice of multiple courses unless they have the same prerequisite.

Non-STEM PathThe new General Education course for this path will be:

M105 Contemporary Mathematics.

This course WILL replace M145. The state is forcing this via a course title change. The content will change from M145. The new key wording is APPLICATION. The powers that be say that students need more application that College Algebra does not supply.

This course is being offered now at a few campuses in Montana.

We plan on offering it for the first time this Spring.

STAT 216 will still be offered as a General Education course.

• Both M105 and STAT 216 will have the same prerequisite which is NOT M095.

• The original plan was for a new course M091 Math Literacy.

OLD PLAN!

We are offering M091 for this Fall. Passing this course will allow students to enroll in M145, M105 or STAT 216.

NEW PLAN!

• The State has received a grant and is looking at using a co-requiste approach to the non-STEM math gateway courses.

• The plan is to implement this in SPRING 2018.

• We may pilot it THIS spring.

How Does This Work?

The course M105, and possibly STAT 216, will not have a prerequisite.

• The students will NOT have to place into the course.

• The students will simply signup for the course.

• Any remediation will have to be done in mandatory tutoring sessions outside of class.

What is expected of the programs?

• Choose either the STEM or Non-STEM Pathway for your program.

• If you choose the STEM path be prepared to justify it to the STATE.

• The Math group will be meeting with program faculty this fall to answer any questions they may have about the different pathways.

QUESTIONS?

Academic Affairs Budget Report - FY15/16

• MSUN completed FY16 with a balanced budget

• The total instructional budget for AY 2016-2017

(salary plus benefits & educational materials) is

$6,663,910; $5,482,095 for FT faculty; $208,500 for

overload pay and adjunct faculty

• Operating, student pay & temps budget is $476,055

• Summer session pay this year was $497,260

Academic Affairs Budget and Staffing

• In Fall 2015 there were 59 Full-time Faculty (61%) and 38 Adjunct Faculty (39%)

• In Spring 2016 there were 57 Full-time Faculty (60%) and 38 Adjunct Faculty (40%)

• In Fall 2016 there are 59 Full-time Faculty (60%) and 40 Adjunct Faculty (40%)

Our Student to Faculty Ratio is 14:1

Students at MSUNOur Student Body:

65.91% (814) are between 17-24 years of age

34.05% (421) are 25 years of age and older

Carry an average course load of 12.33 credits

51.74% Male; 48.26% Female

Adult Learners (25 and over): 34% (421)

Carry an average course load of 9.68 credits

56.06% are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree

16.63% are pursuing a Master’s degree

Celebrate!

We created a NEW Mission Statement:

“MSU Northern provides higher education to students for professional and technical careers through an institution dedicated to teaching and the pursuit of knowledge.”

Approved by the Board of Regents on May 20, 2016

Celebrate! (cont’d.)

• Eight faculty vacancies were filled for Fall 2016

• Two additional Secondary Education programs were re-instated for Fall 2016; English (5-12) and Broadfield Social Science (5-12); currently working on reinstatement of Industrial Technology

• Initially we posted a slight increase in fall headcount over last fall, but the curve is flattening

• FTE is also up--just slightly--due to effective advising

• Summer Session enrollment this year was flat

Celebrate! (cont’d.)

• IT and classroom upgrades

• Continuation of $1.7M TAACCCT III Grant (COTS); now “RevUp”

• Continuation of $638K TAACCCT IV Grant for Healthcare programs (“Healthcare Montana”)

• New $1.9 million grant (NASANTI) for 5 years, to improve the retention and completion rates of American Indian students within higher education

• Little River Institute was created

Faculty Research and Scholarly Activities

On the Provost (or Library) web site, click on “Faculty Research and Publications” and it will take you to:

http://libguides.msun.edu/faculty-research

Please submit material to me so that we can continue to populate this site and let everyone know about all the good things that we are doing at MSU Northern!

Class Size and Room Utilization

• In Spring 2016 there were 346 on-ground and Hybrid (part classroom use) classes; there were 86 Online classes

• We had 1,190 students in the Spring, with the largest number of majors in Diesel and Nursing

• There are 59 “true classrooms” on the Havre campus, but the most classrooms used at any given time was 45; and most were used between 9-10 am and 1-2 pm

Course Offerings and Formats

• Overarching Goal: to increase student retention!

• Immediate Goal: to increase the number of Afternoon/Evening and Online class offerings

• Goal: to have all on-ground classes become “Hybrid”

• Goal: to have an equivalent F2F class for every online class (give the students a choice)

• Continue to implement (and enforce) caps and minimum enrollments on courses to maximize faculty efficiency and space utilization

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU)

YEAR SEVEN ACCREDITATION VISIT

October 10-12, 2016Standard One: Mission, Core Themes, and Expectations

Standard Two: Resources and Capacity

Standard Three: Planning and Implementation

Standard Four: Effectiveness and Improvement

Standard Five: Mission Fulfillment, Adaptation, and Sustainability

NWCCU Task Force• Larry Strizich, Co-Chair

• Carol Reifschneider, Co-Chair

• Norton Pease

• Steven Don

• Virginia Braithwaite

• Terri Hildebrand

• Gary Succaw

• Matt DeLong

AND ALL OF YOU!

NWCCU and Assessment

Presentation with a Special Guest Speaker at 1:00 pm in the SUB Ballroom for ALL Faculty and Staff.

See all of you there!

How to Increase Student Retention

A Simple Formula: Provide the best possible learning experience for our students (including engaged, well-prepared faculty; good equipment and facilities; relevant, up-to-date learning materials; engagement; interaction; timely feedback; and quality advising) and they will be pleased and satisfied. Happy, satisfied students return for more-- and that equals RETENTION! And they tell their family and friends about us, which equals recruitment.

QUESTIONS?COMMENTS?CONCERNS?