Process Steps:

  • Ask yourself if these still the directions you want to go and why
  • Capacity questions- what we can deliver within current resources
  • Interest questions- what students want to know/need to know/could know
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  • Explore opportunities for cross-college collaborations—who is able to assist on campus
  • Build on existing projects – QEP, QA Commons (EEQ), program accreditations, community partnerships
  • Funding sources- what grants and foundations would we [generate?] interest in KSU with new programs
  • Schneller explained her experience in building academic programs based on a wide range of data sources. The early Green Ribbon Committee meetings will be concerned with capacity questions: what can we do within our current means and capacity to meet student needs? Then, the committee will be looking at student feedback and employer feedback, as well as national dialogues about curriculum. In the future—two or three years from now—what are the employment and research needs going to be? We will be building on existing projects: the QEP is going to be on developing a Robot-Proof education. We’ll have the QEP with us for five years, and it will include new curriculum and experiences for students. We also have a project through CPE, the EEQ project (the Essential Employment Qualifications), which is focused on a set of employee dispositions: communication, interaction with others, teamwork, etc. We have identified professional programs at KSU that will be certified through EEQ.
  • Programmatic Accreditation: President Brown wants us to be sure that all the academic programs that can have accreditations do have them, and the ones that already are accredited, maybe they can move up to accreditation by a higher ranking body. We will be looking to get these programs accredited. When you put these pieces together – new programs, accreditation – these will all be part of the Green Ribbon conversations.
  • We will also be asking, what programs can we get grants for to build curriculum? Where can we offer new and innovative programs for students?
  • Schedule of Work: In-Process but for now:
  • Co-chairs of the effort- Dr. Higgins and Dr. Schneller
  • Essential partners (non-faculty)- Student Affairs, IR, IE, Advancement
  • Committee launches work in February (committee members TBD)
  • Preliminary report to the President in April 2019
  • Schneller explained that Student Affairs, IR, Faculty, Advancement and Community Stakeholders will be working together to create a report for the President.
  • One Last thing: Report template- Curriculum proposal form plus additional information such as peer aspirant and comparative programs data, etc.

Schneller noted that in looking at the different ways we can do this, we should expand on the curricular program we already use – adding an annotated bibliography on a budget will make it more uniform.

  • Title III Funds: Schneller displayed a draft document regarding travel funding. She explained that last fall, President Brown had talked about the Kentucky State Professional Travel Fund (KSPTF); these are the T3 funds. This document spells out the nature of the funding and the application and awards process. Academic Affairs will make an announcement with links to the form once it has been completed. The travel-fund committee will meet once a month; their focus will be on upcoming travel, not completed travel. The committee will develop an evaluation tool for determining awards. The application form is