1) EDP Work Plan - The provosts will be putting together a plan that will
show how money for this plan will be distributed (probably along FTE's
for the universities). In the report they will list how the money will
be used to improve course availability and how many courses would not be
able to be offered if the money was not there.
2) General Education Transfer Model - The provosts want to work at two
levels. First, they want to work at their campus levels and their own senates
to make sure there is an endorsement. Secondly, the provosts are working
on an overall blanket endorsement for the model. They will do it in a phone
conference call on Dec. 2. All OUS colleges seem to be in favor of it.
Some of the community colleges may not endorse it. Kurt Schrader, a senator
on the Higher Ed Working Group of the legislature, has already written
legislation on the transfer module. He will (we hope) be addressing us
at our IFS meeting in Portland.
3) Academic Program approvals: The conflict resolution program at University
of Oregon got initial approval to go to the next stage of getting outside
reviews. It will be very expensive ($13,000/year in tuition) because it
is half run by the law school. The PSU Ph.D. in applied psychology got
the ok to send it to the board for final approval.
4) Higher Education Working Group of the Legislature: Susan Morgan, Kurt
Schrader, and Avel Gordly. They will be working directly with OUS.
5) Performance Targets to measure how we are doing (Susan Weeks): The legislature
wants a return on investment for increased salaries. So, OUS has put together
8 major performance indicators that will be reported on yearly and predicted
into the future. They are attached. A second level of more specific subtopics
for each will be distributed at our IFS meeting in Portland. They are going
to be shared with the Higher Education Working Group this coming week.
The provosts council is putting together a list of failed faculty searches,
faculty lost and 2nd/3rd place hires for jobs for each campus to show "faculty
retention". Quality of teaching was discussed - a good indicator is the
# of sections being offered and the number of students per section - all
campuses will be putting this together. (See
attachment)