Educational Outcomes and Student Experience: Undergraduate
Focus: What are our priorities for graduate education? Academic programs, learning outcomes, and educational experience of graduates: Quality and Effectiveness
Program distinctiveness/Pillars of excellence - within and across disciplines
Priorities -for regional, national and international prominence
Size and shape of University's graduate program; proportion of graduate to undergraduate in light of faculty resources
Role of graduate students in research/scholarship and in teaching
Leveraging partnerships
Instructional Delivery and Support - traditional and technology-based, and blended learning
International students - role in teaching
Consider targeted areas for improvement in student learning (SACS Quality Enhancement Plan)
Committee Members
| CHAIR Robert Wojtowicz | Arts & Letters - Arts |
| John Applebaugh | GAS President |
| Richardean Benjamin | Health Sciences - Nursing |
| Lane Dare | ONFilmFest Director |
| Gail Dodge | Science - Physics |
| Dick Gregory | Science - Chemistry |
| Regina Karp | Arts & Letters Political Science & Geography |
| Mounir Laroussi | Elec & Comp Engineering |
| Brenda Lewis | Graduate Studies |
| John Morris | Urban Studies & Public Administration |
| Shana Pribesh | Education - ECI/Programs for Research & Evaluation of Public Schools |
| Anders Sousa-Poza | Engineering Management |
| TASK FORCE REP Ann Pettingill | Library Administration |
Principal Themes and Overall Considerations
- Bolstering Old Dominion University's position as a Major Metropolitan University in the Southeast United States
- Developing and Expanding Strategic Partnerships with wide range of educational, governmental, corporate institutions
Enriching a Student-Centered Culture on Campus
- Identification of institutional strengths and challenges pertinent to Committee ScopeIdentification of external opportunities and threats pertinent to the Committee Scope
- Areas of Distinctiveness in Academic Programs and Research; Pillars of Excellence; Expertise
- Areas.Ideal size and composition of student body and faculty
- Perspectives of stakeholders, beneficiaries and constituencies
- University's regional, national, and international position
- Leveraging geographic advantage
- Balancing Quality and Access
- Instructional Delivery: face-to-face vs. technology-delivered/on- vs. off-campus/role of regional centers
- Service to military and veterans
- Consideration of substantial resource limitations during the planning window; presumption of reallocation of resources
- Keep recommendations at a strategic level, all the while considering relevant operational and tactical issues.
- Propose directions which have reasonable potential for sustainability
- Planning documents and recommendations arising from the Strategic Enrollment Management Process
- Draft Plans of the Academic Colleges
- SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats, Opportunities) Analysis Conducted for the Board of Visitors
- Faculty Senate General Education Recommendations
- Council of Graduate Schools Analysis of Graduate Studies and Programs
- Distance Learning Analysis of Niche and Organization
- Enrollment, Degree, and Resource Trends by Department and Program
- Higher Education Restructuring Act and Institutional Performance Measures
- Other information as requested
