ASEC Key Issues

ASEC Key Issues (Presented by Carol Bowman, Co-Chair ASEC, at 1/3/04 workshop)

Mission-Rationale for what we do

Are we a liberal arts or a comprehensive college?

Concern that the mission is a reality in our curriculum-How do we insure that it is diffused into our curriculum?

Interdisciplinarity-Do we need to have it in organization to have it in curriculum?

Experiential

Intercultural

International

Program Quality

Students

Who are our students? Are we serving their needs? Who should our students be?

Quality of the educational experience of students

Academic rigor

Capstone experiences

Clarity-Can students understand the way their program of study is organized? Does it make sense?

Personalization

A strength-how to retain this aspect of the academic experience as we grow?

How much breadth? How much depth?

Strengthen Academic Communities

Faculty

Scholarship-How can we enhance the role of scholarship in our community?

How can the structures we create foster a lively intellectual life on campus? Between faculty?

Community:

Where does community reside? For Students? For Faculty?

Efficient and Effective Decision Making

Structural Questions:

Vertical vs. horizontal organization

How can we better configure the entities to facilitate effectiveness and efficiency?

How can we flatten the organizational structure? Is that desirable?

How many affiliations can faculty honor?

Dynamic structures

How do we create structures that accommodate and encourage innovation and change?

Accountability for achieving outcomes

Accountability

Deans/Conveners-Proper balance between responsibility and accountability

Faculty to their programs

More transparency in allocation of resources

Review of programs-consolidation and renovation