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Creating the Master Academic Plan Academic Affairs Council Members Bemidji State University MnSCU CAO/CSAO Retreat Fall 2013

Pre-Plan: Draft the Process  Organize team to develop a 3 year MAP in 6 months  Team retreats Create need, purpose, ‘given’ goals/open goal areas, and framework o Need: Avoid recalibration o Purpose: Put academics/students at the center of all university planning o Given goal #1: Financial sustainability o Given goal #2: International competitiveness o Open goal areas Planning process link:

Pre-Plan: Draft the Framework  Beliefs  Vision  Mission  Values  Priority areas  Goal areas (=<5) and actions  Program classification categories: grow, sustain, revise/create  Resources for implementation  Appendices

Pre-Plan: Draft the Program Indicators  Select program indicators for departments to use in reviewing their programs as they dialogue, categorize programs, and plan Worked closely with IR office to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators Point system created for each indicator Categories created for program recommendations o Grow o Sustain o Create/Revise Program indicators link:

Phase I: Introduce the MAP and Process  Introduction of MAP and process Campus event to present need, purpose and process o Need: Avoid recalibration o Purpose: Put academics/students at the center of all university planning o Process:  Deans facilitate program reviews and categorization process with chairs/departments  Faculty engage at departmental/college level and at all campus times set aside for planning  All information open and posted on web  University open forums scheduled  Meetings by college scheduled  Bargaining units informed

Phase II: Department Dialogue  Indicators and SWOT Program rankings from program indicators are shared with all departments All departments participate in a SWOT-Wish conversation and generate a summary Departments dialogue, consolidate comments and respond to indicators Dean is involved with departments as part of the conversation Program indicators:

Phase III: Department Decision Making  Program Categorization Department faculty engage in using all data and dialogue summaries to categorize programs, with justification, as a program to: o Grow o Sustain o Create/Revise As a general guide, if a program is below the mid-point on the majority of indicators, the program should be considered for revision with a goal to achieve at least the mid-point on the majority of the indicators. However, there are factors the indicators do not address that may affect the decision to categorize a program, so do not hold hard and fast to where a program is ranked by the ten indicators. Factors not defined by the indicators should be considered at this point in the planning process.

Phase IV: Drafting the MAP  Draft the MAP Planning group holds a retreat to review all information and to begin drafting master academic plan Draft work plan

Critical Plan Elements Throughout Process Consensus sought during entire planning process All information posted and shared Constancy of purpose and feedback Draft build upon all feedback/information from meetings/forums/planning sessions and from open call for comment

Results Link to plan: MAP%20Final%20version(1).pdf

Beliefs

Academic Beliefs We believe that Bemidji State University is ‣ A living/learning environment where student learning is at the heart of everything we say and everything we do. ‣ An institution where learning best occurs when students engage their ‘mind, heart, and hands’ in addressing personal and social concerns relevant to them. ‣ A university where students, staff, faculty and administrators are teachers and everyone is a learner. ‣ An environment where creative and critical thinkers engage in service to advance the ‘common good’. Therefore, we believe that learning and the needs of students are considered first in all university planning, in all assessment and evaluation activities (including the evaluation of students, faculty, staff, and administration), and in all decisions regarding resource allocation.

Mission Statement

Bemidji State University is an undergraduate institution with specialized and distinct graduate programs where content and delivery is grounded in the principles of social justice and democracy. Academic Mission

Core Values

Creative and critical thinking. Living democratic principles. A collaborative culture that includes all students, staff, faculty and administrators in all aspects of university life. Highly interactive, relevant and engaging learning environments. Academic Core Values

Academic Programming Priorities

Health and human capacity. Personal and social responsibility. Learning, knowing, and understanding the role of business related activities. Writing/reading/speaking/listening across the university. Curricular integration, particularly in liberal education and teacher education. Academic Programming Priorities

Goal Areas

Financial sustainability Distinctiveness Internationally competitive Organizational Goal Areas

Key Definitions

Common good Critical and creative thinking Curriculum integration Democracy Human capacity development Social justice Responsibility centered budgeting Definitions

Overall Process

Comment period by February 1 o Bargaining units o Individual deans’ council members; verbal or o Provost blog comments o Campus forums o Direct to deans or provost Revisions by deans’ council Timeline created by deans’ council Work plan with assignments created by deans’ council Hard copy distribution last February Phase V: Moving to Final Version

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