Committee Evaluates Collegiate Structure for Undergraduate Education
Date: Oct. 16, 2001
By: Dawn Fuller
Phone: (513) 556-1823
Archive: Campus News
The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost for Baccalaureate and Graduate Education is looking for ways to improve service to students by examining and evaluating how UC's collegiate structure serves the mission of undergraduate education.
Provost Anthony Perzigian has appointed a 12-member university-wide committee to study existing structures, missions and resources, and to consider alternate models that work well at other institutions. The effort grows out of the UC Collaboration for Student Success, he said.
"The committee first met Oct. 4 to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of collegiate missions and structures in providing undergraduate instruction," Perzigian said. The committee will focus on the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Evening and Continuing Education and University College. As the committee develops its recommendations, Perzigian asked it to "consider possible reconfiguration or consolidation of those colleges' administrations, programs and curricula in order to improve delivery undergraduate instruction."
Perzigian adds that among the issues the committee will also factor are: articulation/transfer, pre-programs, General Education, evening and summer instruction, coordination of curricula and retention.
At the heart of this initiative is the UC Collaboration for Student Success to assure that the university's decisions, resource allocations, missions and organizational structure are aligned to meet the needs of students.
"The committee will recognize the diversity and identity of the individual colleges in framing its recommendations," Perzigian said.
The committee is expected to report to the provost by March 1.
Members of the collegiate structures committee are:
Kristi Nelson, committee chair and vice provost for academic planning
Barbara Bardes, dean, Raymond Walters College
Robert Faaborg, chair, Faculty senate
Stanley Henderson, associate vice president of enrollment management
Richard Karp, biology professor, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S)
Patrick Kumpf, department head of business technologies, University College
Joseph Nevin, assistant dean, College of Engineering
Gerald Reid, academic director, College of Evening and Continuing Education
Frederick Russ, dean, College of Business Administration
Regina Sapona, associate dean, College of Education
Jeannette Songer, assistant dean, A&S
Catherine Strathern, department head of humanities and social sciences, University College
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