Celebrating CSUDH!Provost’s Welcome Forum

Thursday, February 6, 2014Loker Student Union

Ellen JunnProvost & Vice President for Academic Affairs

Welcome

FacultyStaff

StudentsDepartment Chairs

Deans and Associate DeansAssociate Vice Presidents & Directors

Agenda

Interactive with Data (Poll Everywhere)

(1) Getting feedback from faculty, staff, students

(2) Identifying priorities

(3) Next steps: Ideas, Innovation, Involvement &

Implementation

(4) Thank You and Q&A

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE NEW PROVOST

• Origins in the Midwest.• Attended state and private institutions.• Deep core beliefs about diversity and inclusion.• A lifelong commitment to the CSU—27 years!• Sustained record of professional career

achievements in student support programs, faculty development, as well as other areas such as academic technology, legislative advocacy.

• Coming back home to s. CA and a wonderful campus.

• No need for formalities!

Let’s find out a bit more about you! Please turn on your cell phones or iPad!

We want your participation with your cell or smart phone, iPad or

laptop using Poll Everywhere!

How To Vote via Texting

1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)2. We have no access to your phone numberTIPS

EXAMPLE

How to vote via internet:Use your smart phone, laptop, ipad to find:

http://pollev.com

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Are You Ready?

Let’s try it!

Polling question.

“UNIVERSITY”?• Definition?• Images?

• Institutional Composition?• Purpose/Function?

• Personal Meanings?

University?

Media Portrayals of Professors

Groucho – “Horse Feathers”Professor Quincey Adams Wagstaff (1932)

Fred MacMurray – “Absent Minded

Professor”Prof. Ned Brainard

(1961)

Russell Johnson in “Gilligan’s Island”

Professor Roy Hinkley

(1964-67)Jerry Lewis as

"The Nutty Professor"(1963)

Henry Walton “IN Jones” (Harrison Ford) Professor of Archaeology , OSS agent (1981)

“The Nutty Professor “

(1996) Remake with Eddie

Murphy

Julia Roberts, Katherine Watson, “Mona Lisa Smile” (2003)

“Wonder Boys“ Michael Douglas

(2000)

OUR GREAT FACULTY!

• Tenured & Tenure-Track = 229- Tenured: 197- Tenure-Track: 32

• Lecturers = 612

Total = 841

Boyer’s Paradigm of Faculty Work in Scholarship Reconsidered (1990)

•Faculty work is complex and multi-faceted. •Multiple roles include scholarly work and writing in 4 domains:

(1) research (discovery); (2) teaching/learning; (3) engagement (application); and (4) integration.

•Faculty should be rewarded for scholarly achievements in all of these areas.

OUR WONDERFULACADEMIC AFFAIRS

STAFFAcademic Affairs = 206 Total Campus = ~515

Possible Interest Areas• Increase support for research, scholarly and

creative activity.• Enhance support/resources for new teaching

and learning activities.• Increase resources to increase High Impact

Practices (e.g., service learning, internships, undergraduate research, study abroad).

• Improve student writing (e.g., WAC, WID).• Enhance student advising and mentoring.• Improve technology to reduce workload.• Increase internationalization efforts.

Polling activity

Polling activity slide

Polling activity to participate in.

Polling activity results.

Polling activity responses.

Polling activity participation

International efforts poll.

DRAFT Academic Affairs Principles

1. Privilege student success & graduation;2. Increase faculty support in all of their roles,

along with staff support;3. Focus on quality and service in everything

we do;4. Enhance campus distinction & visibility;5. Promote innovation, involvement;6. Build collaborations across the campus

and in the community.7. Find joy and fun in our activities!

Next action stepsNEXT ACTION STEPS:• More faculty and staff hiring.• Enhance research, scholarly and creative activity.• Increase recognition for faculty & staff.• Improve teaching support and technology (HIP, hybrid/online).• Encourage innovative teaching—invite me to your innovative class!• Support curricular and program innovations.• Enhance community-building/collegial opportunities.• Improve community outreach and resources.• Identify new technologies to reduce workload/improve efficiency.• Continue to strengthen diversity & inclusion commitment.

Communication Plans

1. Provost’s Forums (1-2 per semester).2. Email communications and improved websites.3. Orientation meetings with all colleges.4. Invite me to your department meeting!5. Regular meetings with Chairs, Senate, CFA, ASI,

others.6. Coffee Conversations with the Provost (Academic

Affairs staff; faculty).7. Launch PR efforts to highlight achievements.

SUMMARY(1) Honor our history, mission and past/current accomplishments;(2) Think strategically and innovatively to stabilize and align budgets

in order to maximize student success;(3) Understand and support the unique, complex, interdependent and

critical collaborative roles that faculty, staff and administrators play together in promoting the success of our students, as well as supporting scholarship, creative activity, service and community advocacy connections.

(4) Proactively address strategic planning and accreditation issues.(5) Allocate resources to create an inclusive climate of innovation,

creativity, results, and fun!(6) Commit to enhanced collaboration and communication.(7) Publicize our successes and achievements!

Celebrating Our History & Mission

President Hagan’s Investiture ThemeCSU Dominguez Hills: America Happens Here

• More than half a century after its founding, California State University, Dominguez Hills serves as a conduit between the reality of today’s America and a vision put forth not just by the CSU, but also by the country’s founders. For if “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” truly are “inalienable rights,” so too must be affordable, accessible and quality higher education for those who seek it.

• The investiture of Dr. Willie J. Hagan as the 10th president of California State University, Dominguez Hills provides an opportunity to reflect on the university’s proud history of manifesting these principles. It also is a time to reflect on how major issues’ facing today’s America such as, income inequality, security versus privacy, peace-building and critical and sometimes controversial scientific advances, unfold at CSU Dominguez Hills and how they impact us and we them.

• California State University, Dominguez Hills was deliberately placed here in Carson California to serve as the intersection of promise and hope for a community in crisis and a source of quality education in a service area that includes some of the wealthiest and poorest communities in California.

• A university where pride and purpose meet; where upward mobility begins; where public policy is created, diversity is celebrated, and where a vision articulated more than 200 years ago is made real for a new generation through unprecedented access to affordable, quality higher education grounded in academic excellence.

• America is a dream that happens every day. America happens at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

THANK YOU!