The Advisory Council of Faculty (AC F) “ Creating a Culture for Student Success”
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The Advisory Council of Faculty (ACF)
“Creating a Culture for Student Success”
Marcello R. Napolitano, WVU Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
2012 West Virginia Professor of the Year, WV Merit Foundation
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Higher Education Faculty Are Committed to Serve:
• our students through the development of quality academic programs and delivery of quality instruction;• our institutions through instruction, professional development, research and scholarship, and direct service;• our local communities through instruction and programs that bring economic growth, cultural and artistic events, business and educational partnerships, and research.
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Twentieth Annual Great Teachers Seminar
North Bend State Park, June 2012
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Achieving the SREB “No Time to Waste”: 120-Hr. Curriculum1. To Increase Student Retention2. To Encourage Timely
Graduation3. To Enhance and “Revision”
the Curriculum
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Faculty Achievements ¨Curricular Reform:
Review & Revision of General Studies (Core Programs) Accomplished at Six Institutions: Shepherd University, New River CTC, Southern CTC, Bridgemont CTC, West Liberty University, WV School of Osteopathic Medicine (2-yr curriculum);
Review & Revision of Majors Accomplished at Four Institutions: Shepherd University, WV Northern CTC, Potomac State College of WVU, West Liberty University;
Review and Revision of Curriculum in Progress at Twenty-three Institutions. —ACF Report
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Curricular Reform at One 4-Year Institution Required: Reform of Majors & Minors:
• Standardizing requirements for majors within a range of 42-50 credits (except where licensing requires additional hours);• Reviewing all required minors (15-18 hr. minors);• Re-visioning general education courses in majors and requiring first-year experiences, writing intensive courses in all majors, and capstones for all students.
General (Core) Education Reforms: • Aligning requirements with AAC&U “LEAP” standards;
• Reducing Core requirements to 42 credits;• Suggesting 30 credits first two years, 12 credits last two.
*Increasing Retention and Reducing Hours to Graduation or Degree Completion
(120/60 Hour SREB Curricular Recommendation)
*As a result of faculty efforts, sixty-two students were able to graduate early in 2012, saving each student on average $4,300, for a total saving of $369,000! (Shepherd University Magazine 18 (Fall 2012): 4).
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52,478 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Undergraduate Enrollment, a 6.6% 5-year increase;
3,190 Community College Degrees, a 10.9% 5-year increase; 8,412 Skill Set Certificates Awarded, a 34.2% 5-year increase; 2,949 Associate’s Degrees in 2010, a 42.7% 10-year
increase; 8,583 Bachelor’s Degrees in 2010, a 15.5% 10-year
increase; 2,694 Master’s Degrees in 2010, a 28.6% 10-year increase; 715 Doctor’s Degrees in Professional Practice
Awarded in 2010; 19,794 Adult Learners in Higher Education, a 7.7% 5-year increase; $208,881,286.00 in Research Grants in 2010.
WV Higher Education Faculty have accomplished the following:
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Higher Education Interfacing with Public Education: “Smarter Balance”
and ACF Involvement
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And Yet . . .
”West Virginia ranks 15th among the 16 SREB states in faculty salaries, which is two places below its ranking a year earlier.” —HEPC/CCTCE 2011 “Report
Card”
At the same time . . .
“Only 17% of WV students enrolled in the 9th grade will earn a two- or four-year college degree within ten years, [and] by 2018, 49% of the jobs in WV will require education and/or training beyond high school. ” —May 2012 WV College Completion Task Force, “Educating West Virginia Is Everyone’s Business
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The cost is high . . . but so are the stakes, so
what can we do? What can the HEPC do to help
us accomplish even more?
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2012-13 Higher Education Faculty Issues:
“Creating a Culture for Student Success”¨Advocate for faculty salary raises and for our
institutions to address the problem of salary compression, in order to return West Virginia from 15th to 13th among SREB states;
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Full Professor
2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-120
20,000
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WV avgNational avgSREB
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Table of Inflation Rates by Year
2005 3.4 2006 3.2 2007 2.82008 3.82009 -0.42010 1.62011 3.2 %
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Institutions that raised tuition in 2010-11 and tuition rise percentages: ?
Institutions that raised faculty salaries in 2010-11and average percentage of salary raise: ?
Salary Raises and Tuition Increases
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2012-13 Higher Education Faculty Issues:
“Creating a Culture for Student Success”¨Continue progress in shared governance by
engaging the ACF in the work of the HEPC;
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—providing a voice for 4,189 full-time and 1,961 part-time HEPC faculty and 558 full-time and 1,082 part-time CTCS faculty, in order to make West Virginia Higher Education better!