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NMU BOARD OF TRUSTEES – ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEEDecember 2010ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ROAD MAP UPDATEThe Road Map to 2015 was introduced in March 2008. The Academic Affairs Division, with the leadership of the Provost and members of the Academic Cabinet and with contributions by outstanding faculty and staff, continues to move forward with many aspects of Road Map implementation. This December 2010 update, while not an exhaustive listing, provides highlights of progress made since the last report in September 2010. InnovationPriority: Consolidate and/or reduce the number of undergraduate majors and streamline baccalaureate programs to enhance quality and efficiency. The Educational Policies Committee (a group of faculty and academic administrators who serve in an advisory role to the Provost) has approved a set of eleven “best practices” criteria for reallocating resources for academic programs. The EPC is now using those criteria to evaluate recommendations for academic program growth and elimination.In 2009 the Criminal Justice Department began encouraging bachelor degree majors to graduate with an associate degree on their way to earning their bachelors degree. This collaborative effort between the Criminal Justice Department and the Registrar’s office resulted in marked increases in two-year graduation rates, in addition to ‘ensuring’ a degree for student who may leave the university prior to obtaining their four-year degree.? Both two-year programs ladder nicely into the Bachelors degree program and the department is in the beginning stages of making this process automatic for all four-year students.The BSN redesigned curriculum in the School of Nursing was implemented this fall. The redesigned curriculum enables students to complete the BSN portion of the program in five academic semesters. The first three semester’s students complete their prerequisite courses. One of the reasons the program shifted to requiring more of the prerequisites to be completed, was to increase retention once students are admitted to the BSN program. Priority: Integrate global engagement and diversity learning experiences throughout the academic curriculum. The School of Nursing offered a graduate course for its Family Nurse Practitioner students in summer 2010 in Honduras. The students were able to provide hands on patient care, with each student seeing up to 30 patients/day. The course was directed by two faculty who are advanced practice nurses: Sheri Giordana, DNP, FNP-BC and Terry Delpier, DNP, PNP.The Office of International Programs and the Provost’s Office reached an agreement with Universidad de Matanzas Camilo Cienfuegos UMCC. Under this agreement, with the license of the United States government, NMU students will be able to spend up to a year in Cuba studying intensive Spanish and choosing courses from any of the six different colleges at UMCC. Universidad de Matanzas is one of the top five universities in Cuba. With this agreement, NMU becomes the 15th American university to have an agreement in Cuba. NMU will be the first American university working outside Havana. The International Programs Office and the Provost’s Office co-sponsored, for a third year, the NMU International Photo Contest. Forty-two NMU faculty, students, and alumni submitted 124 photos and ten winners were selected in five categories; Local People-Local Customs, Children of the World, Naturally Northern, Landscapes and Scenes, and Lights and Shadows.The NMU International Performing Arts Series, under the direction of Daniel Truckey, Director of the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center, finished its third performance of the 2010-11 season on November 5 with a concert by the Irish-American fiddle master, Liz Carrol. So far, this year’s series has had over 1,000 people attend and performers have conducted workshops for local students at Big Bay, Marquette, Munising, Negaunee and Republic schools. Priority: Utilize corporate partners to increase internship opportunities for students.Engineering Technology is working with the National Weather Service to identify an intern to work through the school year helping to maintain NWS equipment across the Upper Peninsula. Priority: Explore and act upon opportunities to expand programs in nursing and allied health to meet the growing demand for professionals in health care and related fields.The Military Science Department recruited six top Midwest high school students to the NMU Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Priority: Explore and act upon graduate programming (certificate, master’s, doctoral) in areas of recognized strengths, needs and opportunities.The College of Business, in an effort to meet student interests and regional needs, is working with other departmental units on campus to explore the possibility of offering specializations within the current MBA program. This effort looks to respond to the strengths of other, non-business programs.The College of Business is finalizing an initiative that will help non-business majors complete an MBA in one year. The program is called the “Momentum MBA”. Non-business majors taking a business minor and a few select electives will be prepared to start the Momentum MBA immediately following graduation.Priority: Develop and implement a plan for substantially increasing federal, state and private grants to NMU.Military Science secured four federally funded ROTC scholarships for deserving cadets; currently have five more ROTC scholarships in the approval process; and secured an additional State of Michigan National Guard scholarship. Military Science continues to leverage the Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP) through the National Guard and Reserve units throughout upper Michigan to fully fund cadet’s education while providing them the opportunity to gain valuable experience in an Army unit prior to graduating and commissioning. Meaningful LivesPriority: Increase access to and understanding of financial aid by creating new online interactive tools that simplify the financial aid process for prospective students, parents and others.Director of Admissions Gerri Daniels presented information to high school guidance counselors at the annual Promoting the Publics events regarding the Financial Aid Toolbox, the electronic Career Pathways field trips, the personalized links tool (nmu.edu/myadventure) and the ability for counselors to request online information about their students attending NMU and to request NMU materials.Priority: Develop a “virtual” campus that provides reliable, convenient access to online courses and other essential student services.All 20 of the School of Education graduate courses will be available online for winter 2011 to better serve the professional and career needs of educators in the region and throughout the world. ?The Registrar’s Office is working with the National Student Clearinghouse to implement an online degree and enrollment verification process.? Students will be able to go to a web site and print an enrollment certificate.? Employers will be able to use this site to verify that students have earned a degree. Financial Aid and Communications and Marketing collaborated with Communication and Performance Studies during the winter 2010 semester to develop student-created videos describing the Satisfactory Academic Progress policies and appeals process using student athletes. The videos may be viewed at:: Establish benchmarks for technology literacy for all NMU graduates and develop a plan to achieve them.Under the direction of Dr. Mollie Freier (Library), NMU participated in Project Information Literacy, a national research study of college students’ information-seeking behaviors conducted on 25 campuses around the U.S. This research, supported by the MacArthur Foundation, is being conducted by investigators at the Information School, University of Washington. Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age (a progress report) was released November 1, 2010 and is helping to inform NMU library faculty about students’ research strategies and behaviors. Leveraging Campus AttributesPriority: Provide training opportunities at all appropriate levels to improve the responsiveness and effectiveness of office operations.Admissions staff Chrissy Carr and Nichole Veirs served on the planning and presentation committee for the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (MACRAO) New Counselors Workshop. This provided them valuable experience in program planning and training/mentoring new professionals in the field.Priority: Enhance the portfolio of academic programs, research and other activities that leverage the university’s location in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.The College of Arts & Sciences has initiated a fellowship program for Arts and Sciences faculty who wish to conduct research regarding an aspect of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The goal of the project is to increase research productivity in an area central to the Road Map to 2015. Fellows will present the results of their research at the annual Sonderegger Symposium and will also submit their work for publication in appropriate journals.Priority: Work to enhance opportunities, funding and events that strengthen and increase current university areas that focus on the Upper Peninsula—Center for Native American Studies, Center for Upper Peninsula Studies, Beaumier Heritage Center and NMU and Central Upper Peninsula Archives. The NMU Native American Studies Program, in collaboration with the School of Nursing, the Department of Clinical Sciences and Marquette General Hospital, presented another session of the Native American Medicine Wheel Academy. The purpose of the Academy, funded by a Wildcat Innovation Fund grant, is to increase the number of Native Americans who choose to pursue a career in Health Care. The November 2010 Academy hosted 25 Native American prospective students from Michigan and Wisconsin. Participants, among other activities, interacted with the School of Nursing’s high fidelity human simulators, learned how to take vital signs such as blood pressure and pulse, and heard a presentation by a Native American dentist.The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center and DeVos Art Museum hosted the 2010 Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival on September 10-11. The festival featured dozens of performers and folk artisans and drew over 400 spectators. The DeVos Museum featured its exhibit of folk art by Niel Haapala and conducted craft workshops for children during the event. University Archivist, Marcus Robyns, finalized an agreement to permanently house and preserve governmental and court records from the City of Marquette and Marquette County, making these primary resources available for research. University Archivist, Marcus Robyns, secured a commitment from retiring U.S. Representative Bart Stupak to donate his papers to the NMU Archives. This significant collection of papers augments an already well-established research collection of political papers relevant to the Upper Peninsula.During 2010, the Center for Upper Peninsula Studies published several books related to the Upper Peninsula:Native Americans of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: A Chronology to 1900; Russell M. Magnaghi (History faculty & Director of CUPS)Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Immigrants and Their Occupations As Seen in the 1910 Federal Census; Russell M. Magnaghi (A CD publication)Northern Michigan University: A Personal History, 1899-2010; Francis Roy CopperKentuckians in the Upper Peninsula; Bruce K. CoxThe Reichard Farm: Pioneering in Menominee County; Nancy D. Kennedy Community EngagementGoal: Increase collaboration with local communities, schools, governments, development groups and other partners to enhance community and economic development in the Upper Peninsula.The College of Business has just completed its first round of competition for the Fourth Annual New Business Venture Competition. Nine thousand dollars in cash prizes is available and the final, public competition will be held on April 7, 2011.Goal: Include all units of the campus in the process of community engagement; that is, collaborations between the university and its larger communities (local, state, regional, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.The Physical Education Teacher Education program in Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) has developed relationships with PK-12 public and private educational institutions in Marquette County. Each semester NMU students work with several classes providing needed improvements in the Physical Education experience for students.The City of Marquette has received funding to install a current meter at Picnic Rocks in an attempt to make swimming safer in this area. This project was developed by Engineering Technology students Craig Wiseman and Scott McLain in their senior projects class last year. In addition, Eric Smith, Director of NMU Broadcast & Audio Visual Services, is serving as NMU’s representative on a Water Safety Task Force for the City of Marquette. The group will make recommendations for improving water safety in the city along the shoreline of Lake Superior.In coordination with the 652nd Engineer Company and the US Army Recruiting Command, NMU Military Science supported the NMU/MTU football game ball run from Marquette to Houghton. Cadets ran the 100 miles between campuses to show their school spirit and build spirit de corps. The Center for Upper Peninsula Studies has developed an oral history project with Marquette General Hospital to interview 50+ retired hospital personnel (nursing staff and physicians) to document the history of the hospital. The Center is also developing a series of oral interviews with residents of Drummond Island to document the history of early Finnish settlement on the island and the Tom Monaghan (Domino’s Pizza) resort of the 1980s. Student interns are hired to transcribe and edit the tapes produced by these oral interviews.Priority: Significantly increase the number of NMU students who participate in the Superior Edge, academic service learning and other leadership development opportunities.Make a Difference Day on Saturday, October 23; saw 1,264 NMU students representing 111 student organizations complete 183 service projects.The NMU Volunteer Center has been working with Kris Day, a NMU alum and the Director of Student Activities at University of Michigan-Dearborn to arrange a "service exchange." Two vans of NMU students (15-20 students) will travel to Detroit and do service work in metro Detroit on Monday, January 17 (Martin Luther King Day). On the weekend of February 18-20, UM-Dearborn students will travel to Marquette. They will see some of the Marquette area and volunteer at the UP 200 Sled Dog Race. The purpose of the exchange, in addition to the service provided, is to expose some NMU students who have had little or no exposure to urban settings to a major metro area and in turn to acquaint some students who have only known urban life to a rural setting.The NMU Student Nurse Association conducted a fundraiser in October 2010 for the Marquette Children’s Museum. Over $2000 was raised to support Museum activities.Priority: Implement and fund strategies to increase the number of students and employees from under-represented and nontraditional groups.The Provost’s Office, in collaboration with Human Resources, has implemented a new training program for faculty search chairs and academic department heads. The purpose of the program is to prepare search chairs and department heads to conduct faculty searches in accordance with best practices, including those that are most likely to result in a diverse pool of applicants and greater success in the hiring of faculty from under-represented groups.Senior Admissions Counselor Kari Garcia has been appointed to the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling (IACAC) Human Relations Committee.? The mission of the committee is to serve as a catalyst-heightening awareness, consciousness and sensitivity to the issues of culture, race, human rights, gender, age, and other differences in the admissions process. Director of Admissions, Gerri Daniels, and Associate Director of the Multicultural Education and Resource Center, Shirley Brozzo, are creating a publication designed for both Admissions and MERC to use in the recruitment/retention process for students of color.??The project is funded by a Wildcat Innovation Fund grant. ................
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