coe-staff: curricular renewal

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,

I wish to follow my email of last Friday with some detailed proposals for renewing our curricular offerings. The goals for this effort are to improve, a) student access, b) our student's experience, c) enrollment, and d) tuition revenue.

As I noted for our students at our recent welcome luncheon, we are poised to make substantial improvements in our academic performance. We have set research records, significantly diversified our workforce, and led the university in Ph.D. productivity. We are nearing a balanced budget this year, and our research professor faculty ranks will increase as a result of the new grants and contracts acquired. We also have 21 new tenure-related faculty hired in the last three years, and three more on the way.

It is time to capitalize on these strengths in order to address some curricular shortcomings. In contrast to our peers, for example, we do not have, a) a single online (i.e., asynchronous) master's program, b) a major for first-year undergraduates that is attractive to large numbers of students who will eventually pursue diverse fields and occupations, c) an interdisciplinary (either cross-college or cross-campus) doctoral degree, or d) on-site masters degree programs in a more populous metropolitan area (e.g., Portland).

I will charge all academic leaders with engaging in this renewal inclusive of, department heads, associate deans, academic program coordinators, ROC unit directors, and individual and small groups of like-minded faculty. These efforts, of course, will require personnel and fiscal resources, which may come from a variety of sources including, a) any savings accrued from reducing academic department structures as proposed by our ad hoc committee b) deactivating existing academic programs and redirecting faculty and staff resources, c) lessening the credit hour demands of existing academic programs where possible to free more faculty FTE, d) capitalizing on the strengths of research and outreach unit faculty, e) requesting start-up funds from the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs, f) donor support, g) increasing tuition revenue that may be redirected toward employing more full-time faculty, and h) seeking more faculty hires as part of the Institutional Hiring Plan (IHP).

Opportunities to engage in this curricular renewal will be announced soon. I look forward to the work ahead.

Regards,

Randy


For scheduling, please contact Maggie Bosworth at  magboz at uoregon.edu<mailto:%20magboz at uoregon.edu> or 541-346-6467.
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R.W. Kamphaus, Ph.D. | Professor and Dean
randyk at uoregon.edu<mailto:randyk at uoregon.edu> | 541-346-3405
HEDCO 130
1215 University of Oregon | Eugene, OR 97403



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