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FSU Biennial Narrative Report 2016 2016 Narrative Report School of Information Florida State University INTRODUCTION Since 2014, Florida State University’s School of Information (FSU iSchool) has maintained a #13 overall ranking from U.S. News & World Report for its ALA-accredited Master's degree program (M.S. and M.A. in Information.), ranked #1 in School Media, #5 in Youth Services, and #11 in Digital Libraries. The FSU iSchool’s degree programs also include a Ph.D. degree, a Specialist degree, and a Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) and a #11 ranked Master’s degree (M.S.) in Information Technology. Leadership has changed since the last Biennial report. In 2014-2015, Director Kathy Burnett led the School along with Dr. Michelle Kazmer as Associate Director (May-October 2014). Dr. Lorri Mon became Associate Director in January 2015, and Director in June 2016. Dr. Mia Lustria became Education Committee Chair in January 2016. Associate Director Linda Swaine continued as the Director of Assessment and Articulation, with Dr. Don Latham continuing as MLIS Program Chair, and Dr. Larry Dennis continuing as Dean of the College of Communication and Information. INFORMATION REQUESTED BY ALA I. Systematic Planning - The FSU iSchool’s Mission recognizes the importance of connecting people, information, and technology for society’s betterment (iSchool Mission: https://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/about/mission/) with a commitment to universal information creation, access, use, and evaluation within a dynamic culture of emerging technology through innovative teaching, research, and service. The iSchool is committed to preparing information professionals with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes to overcome information challenges in all organizations, and is dedication to innovative and interdisciplinary research, collaboration, service, leadership, respect for diversity, and ongoing professional development. The FSU iSchool’s Goals are: 1) to demonstrate excellence in scholarship, teaching, and FSU SCHOOL OF INFORMATION Page 1 of 10 collaborative partnerships; 2) to have a state-of-the-art infrastructure to fully support scholarship, teaching, and collaborative partnerships; 3) to be an environment that fosters information entrepreneurship; 4) to have ample and sustainable financial resources to support excellence in our mission. FSU Learning Objective Goals as aligned with the iSchool Goals are: 1. Students who complete the Masters’ in Information core will achieve KSAs determined by relevant stakeholders including but not limited to ALA; 2. Students who follow specific specializations and/or certificates will achieve KSAs determined by industry/organization/disciplinary standards; 3. Course objectives and descriptions will be aligned with the course content in terms of measureable outputs; 4. Achievements of individual students, alumni, and faculty will be identified and communicated; 5. Relevant stakeholders will have input into the curriculum.; 6. The iSchool will explore partnerships within and outside the university for cooperative degree, certificate, course, and internship opportunities. (see Appendix A). FSU’s iSchool reaffirmed our mission, vision, values, and goals, reviewing progress toward the goals and their alignment with degree program objectives and student learning outcomes in 2014-2016 Faculty Retreats, Faculty Meetings, and Committee Meetings. The iSchool also completed a Financial Sustainability Faculty Retreat (January 14, 2014), a University Graduate Policy Committee Quality Enhancement Review self study and external review (February 10-11, 2014), and an Action Plan for 2014-2016. (see Appendices B and C). We reassessed organizational structure and bylaws, and conducted strategic planning and SWOT analyses (March 28, 2014) (see Appendix D). In 2014-2016, we created the FSU iSchool Goals, Objectives, Action Plans guiding document with five Goals each broken out into specific Objectives, Action Plans for each goal and objective, and assessment ratings for extent to which each goal has been achieved. (see Appendix E). iSchool administrators regularly revisited this document in planning, in writing each year’s Committee charges (see Appendix F), in setting goals, objectives and activities for Faculty Retreats (see Appendix G), and in identifying action items in Faculty Meetings and Committee Meetings (see Dates in Appendix F). Data collection and reporting included the FSU Graduate Program Committee Quality FSU SCHOOL OF INFORMATION Page 2 of 10 Enhancement Review (QER), the ALISE Statistical Report, CRA/Taulbee, Library Journal Institutional Questionnaire, US News Best Online Computer Information Technology Programs review, and the NSF NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Post doctorates in Science and Engineering, We conducted biennial alternating surveys of the FSU iSchool employers and alumni, and assessed alumni job titles, noting new titles e.g. “electronic and technologies librarian,” “instructional technologies librarian,” “library media tech specialist,” and “social media manager and librarian” (see Appendix H). In iSchool Faculty Retreats, Faculty Meetings and Committee Meetings, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members including FSU librarians participated actively, giving feedback on and helping to carry out the iSchool’s planning and implementation activities for action items toward our goals and objectives. The iSchool’s all-day Faculty Retreats focused on strategic planning activities for research (August 11, 2014 and Nov. 20, 2015); goals, objectives, and action plans (February 13, 2015); committee structure and planning (August 11, 2015); and curriculum and student engagement (Jan. 22, 2016). On February 13, 2015, we reviewed completed Actions Plans, and current status of all goals, objectives and action plans (see Appendices I, J and E). A Director’s Plan developed by Dr. Kathy Burnett and building upon our prior planning activities was discussed at the March, 15, 2015 faculty meeting (see Appendix K), and action plan items developed from these iSchool goals and objectives continued to be assigned to the FSU iSchool Committees throughout 2014-2016, including: Education Committee (Curriculum Management Committee/Academic Affairs Committee): Goal 1: excellence in scholarship and teaching. The Education Committee assessed degree programs annually, reviewed existing courses, and reviewed all new or revised syllabi, with development of new syllabi such as Cultural Competencies undertaken in response to our mission, values, and learning objectives,(see Curriculum section (II), for further detail). Student Experience Committee: Goal 1: excellence in scholarship and teaching. The Student Experience Committee created awards processes to recognize, communicate and support scholarly and teaching excellence for faculty and students, among other activities (see Appendices L and M). Research FSU SCHOOL OF INFORMATION Page 3 of 10 Committee/Technology Committee/Personnel Committee: Goal 1: excellence in scholarship, teaching, and collaborative partnerships. Goal 2: have a state-of-the-art infrastructure. The Research Committee conducted planning for technology and research needs, cross-university collaborative research events, and new faculty searches (see III. Faculty for hires). Planning Committee: Goal 2: have a state-of-the-art infrastructure;Goal 3: foster information entrepreneurship;. Goal 4: have ample and sustainable financial resources. The Planning Committee oversaw administration of planning and budget activities such as student technology fee grants ($15,983 in 2014; $10,759.95 in 2015; and $4,715 in 2016) for a makerspace with technologies such as 3D printing and 3D visualization with Oculus Rift, workshops such as Raspberry Pisentation Parts 1-4 and an Entrepreneur in Residence teaching information entrepreneurship (see Appendix N). Development, Recruitment & Outreach Committee: Goal 4: have ample and sustainable financial resources. The Outreach Committee participated in graduate recruitment, including diversity recruitment at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). A previous downward trend in graduate admissions stabilized and began trending upwards in 2014-2016, but converting admissions to enrollments remains challenging (see Appendix O). The Committee also worked on communication planning, launching the iSchool’s new mobile-friendly Web site, working on alumni and donor meetings at ALA Midwinter, ALA Annual, BCALA, and Florida Library Association (FLA), and on updates via direct emails, emails to key listservs, and iSchool social media, and CCI Leadership Board’s Speakers List to connect faculty and students with alumni and professionals speaking in classes. II. Curriculum The FSU iSchool’s ALA-accredited Master’s (M.A. and M.S.) 36 credit hour degree programs offer 12 credits of core courses (http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/academics/graduate/mslis/) in Assessing Needs/Research, Foundations/Policy, Information Organization, and Management and 24 elective credits students can use for career needs, to earn Certificates in Leadership & Management, Youth Services, Reference, Health, Information Architecture (http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/academics/graduate/cert/), or FSU SCHOOL OF INFORMATION Page 4 of 10 special study in Museums (http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/academics/graduate/mslis/specializations/#mus). The FSU iSchool offers guidance on public, academic, and special libraries, health, information organization, reference, youth services, management, and technology (http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/academics/graduate/mslis/specializations/#glib).
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