Update from December 8 Management Forum

Hi Everyone

Here are brief notes from the Management Forum last Monday. Several things from this meeting will impact out department for the next year.

The following are the 4 strategic goals we've discussed previously. Here you'll find more specific objectives for each goal. As you read through them, think about the many ways the work our department does fits within these goals:

1. Grow and maintain enrollment levels
- Grow on-campus enrolments to 4000 by 2013
- By 2013, grow international off-campus enrolments by 350 (this specifically refers to the China project we are currently working on)

2. Develop strategic partnerships
- provide laddering opportunities (articulation agreements) for 100% of applicable programs by 2012.
- Be a leading College in Applied Research

• Stakeholder focus:# of faculty and students engaged, # of community partners
• Sustainability Focus: # of projects, dollars invested or spent)

- Launch a major fund raising campaign to run over the next five years (target TBD)

3. Enhance the student experience
- Enhance and implement a robust program review process (This will likely fit within our Curriculum Development area. We're currently waiting for more specific information on expectations around a "robust" program review, how this is different than the current reviews, and who will take the lead.)
- Includes two other initiatives: new student residences and the campus development plan.

4. Achieve operational excellence
- implement a student satisfaction survey with an initial target of 80% satisfied / very satisfied.
(It's quite likely our Curriculum Development are will be involved with this initiative as well - waiting on more specific information).
- Review and revise the decision making framework to create appropriate responsibility and accountability.

In addition, we learned that department and / or centre initiatives must work within the following framework when we are putting forward requests for addition resources and / or capital:

1. What are the Institutional Goals and Objectives you are supporting?
2. What will you achieve and in what timeframe? (initiative)
3. How are you going to achieve it?
4. How will you know if you are successful?
– Define performance indicators (measurements and targets)
5. What support or resources (RFD) will you need and in what timeframe ?
– from others (departments) , the institution (financial), or outside parties

We'll be talking about this very briefly at our EET meeting on Friday morning. If you have questions about any of this, please let me know.

Karen

Update from Multi-Faceted Delivery (MFD) Meeting - Dec 1

Here are a few things discussed at today's MFD meeting.

1. The keynote for the MFD conference in the spring will be Louis Schmier, a History prof from Georgia. His passion is about connecting with students, teaching from the heart . . . . should be a great keynote.

2. IT is working on virtualization with the Professional Golf Program (PGM). Students would be encouraged to use their own laptops and would be able to access virtual desktops. One barrier would be software licenses.

3. Dwayne mentioned the Polleverywhere software. We need to try this . . . as soon as someone has time.

4. Dean - still working on the learning object repository.

5. Dwayne's Ed Tech survey - He is compiling data. The same survey will be delivered to other institutions in AB, and possibly nationally.

6. Yuuguu - With this tool we can hold online meetings, share our screens and work together on the same documents in real time. Dwayne's website has a link to a table with many different web conferencing tools. It sounds like Tyler and a few others have been working with Dwayne on this. Perhaps at the next EET meeting you could do a demo . . .

Karen