• Major and career guidance tailored to each student – The “major explorer” interface provides advisors with guidance on a student’s likelihood to succeed in a range of majors at KSU. This feature also provides real-time career trend data that gives hiring demand, starting salaries, education and experience requirements.
  • Central reporting to enable continuous improvement – The platform tracks and analyzes support services usage. Accessible reports show how student engagement with these services affect student outcomes.
  • Integration of existing systems – The platform imports data from Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Blackboard.

2. Student Support Services New Leadership

A new director for Student Support Services, Joseph Goodman, was hired on November 23, 2015. He has worked to recruit 66 new students for the program with a focus on first-year students and seniors in the 2010 and 2011 cohorts.

III. Improvement Plan for Online Curriculum

There is currently no policy that covers the study, teaching, and delivery of online courses at Kentucky State University. In an attempt to improve the current situation, the Vice President of Academic Affairs charged the Academic Policy Committee (APC) of the Faculty Senate to research best practices and provide recommendations to Academic Affairs on the most salient issues emerging from that study in order to develop a policy.

Nine (9) items emerged from the Committee’s study as salient to online instruction. They are detailed below. These were presented to the Faculty Senate on Monday December 14, 2015, for discussion and possible approval. They were presented to the Office of Academic Affairs as formal recommendations on 12/15/15. Upon minor changes, Senate and Presidential approval, these recommendations are expected to take effect for the fall 2016 term.

In addition to the issues detailed below, the report notes that there was no previous online classification or description, no named point person in charge of the online course review process, no named process by which the courses should be developed, and no mechanism for distinguishing or separating those students who should not take online courses from those who should not.

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